Netanyahu tells UN Israeli forces have destroyed '90%' of Hamas' rockets, killed or captured half of its forces
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Netanyahu tells UN Israeli forces have destroyed '90%' of Hamas' rockets, killed or captured half of its forces.
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The TelegraphThe videos that show how Israel flattened a Lebanese village
A village in southern Lebanon has been all but levelled as Israel moves tanks across the border amid warnings of a repeat of Gaza.
- Associated Press
Israel's strikes are shifting the power balance in the Middle East, with US support
Israeli military strikes are targeting Iran's armed allies across a nearly 2,000-mile stretch of the Middle East and threatening Iran itself. The efforts raise the possibility of an end to two decades of Iranian ascendancy in the region, to which the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq inadvertently gave rise. In Washington, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and Arab capitals, opponents and supporters of Israel's offensive are offering clashing ideas about what the U.S. should do next, as its ally racks up tactical successes against Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Houthis in Yemen and presses its yearlong campaign to crush Hamas in Gaza.
- Reuters
Netanyahu says Israel has 'taken out' Nasrallah's successors
JERUSALEM (Reuters) -Israeli forces have killed the would-be successors of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Tuesday, without naming them. Netanyahu did not identify by name Nasrallah's replacement that he claimed Israel had killed.
- The Telegraph
The missile crashed down 100 yards away – and with it Israel’s invasion had intensified
The surgeon had barely begun when a blast jolted the entire hospital lobby and sent everyone ducking and scattering.
- Storyful
Iron Dome Interceptions Seen Above Haifa as Hezbollah Launches Major Barrage
Hezbollah fired around 100 rockets toward Haifa on October 8, local officials and media said.Footage from Fadi Khoury shows the impacts from Israel’s Iron Dome defensive system.The Times of Israel described the barrage as the “heaviest attack” on the city since the start of the present conflict.Israel’s emergency medical service Magen David Adom said a woman in her 70s suffered a shrapnel injury to her hand. Credit: Fadi Khoury via Storyful
- HuffPost
‘Bibi, What The F**k?’: Biden Allegedly Sparred With Netanyahu Over Lack Of Gaza Strategy
Despite publicly appearing as friends, the president is privately enraged at the Israeli prime minister's rogue behavior, according to Bob Woodward's new book.
- BBC
Lebanon abandoned by international community - ex PM
Fouad Siniora tells the BBC that Lebanon as a state has been kidnapped by Hezbollah.
- The Telegraph
Hezbollah ‘battered and broken’ by heavy Israeli attacks
Israel’s defence minister has said Hezbollah has been left “battered and broken” after a bombing campaign that killed most of the group’s military leadership including Hassan Nasrallah, its chief since 1992.
- Associated Press
Middle East latest: Netanyahu says Israel has killed the successor to the head of Hezbollah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Tuesday that Israel has killed the successor to the head of Hezbollah while the militant group's acting leader promised more fighting in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah’s overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and several of his top commanders were killed in recent weeks after heavy Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon. Netanyahu did not name the successor who was killed Tuesday.
- Reuters
Iran Quds Force chief Qaani is well, to get medal from Supreme Leader, adviser says
The commander of the overseas arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards is well and will receive a medal from Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei soon, the semi-official Tasnim news agency quoted a senior Guards adviser on Wednesday as saying. Two senior Iranian security officials told Reuters earlier that Quds Force commander Esmail Qaani, who travelled to Lebanon after the Sept. 27 killing of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli airstrike, had not been heard from since further Israeli bombings of south Beirut late last week.
- Evening Standard
Anti-Hamas 'rape tunnel' posters appear in London Tube stations for October 7 anniversary
Gaza ‘Tube network’ posters calling for return of hostages seen in major London Underground stations
- Reuters
A year after Oct. 7, Hamas faces dissent in Gaza as war takes toll
Samira, a mother of two, yearns for her old life when she was an Arabic teacher and had a comfortable home - before the attack by Hamas on Israel a year ago plunged Gaza into suffering and chaos. She has joined a growing number of Gazans asking whether they have paid too high a price for Hamas' assault on Oct. 7 last year. The Israeli offensive that followed has flattened Gaza, killed tens of thousands, and driven more than a million Palestinians from their homes.
- CNN
Air France says jet flew over Iraq as Iranian missiles descended on Israel
Air France has opened an investigation into how a jet flying from Paris to Dubai went over Iraq as Iranian missiles fired at Israel crossed the same airspace, the airline said Wednesday.
- BBC
Heavy fighting in Gaza's Jabalia as Israel conducts new ground operation
Israeli troops go into Jabalia for a third time after the military says Hamas has regrouped there.
- The Guardian
Israeli military deploys fourth division in Lebanon ground offensive
Hezbollah acting leader says its military capabilities still ‘fine’ as Israel sends more troops and keeps up airstrikes
- The Guardian
Two students arrested during pro-Palestine protest at Western Sydney University
Two protesters, aged 24 and 21, arrested after allegedly assaulting campus security
- Reuters
Israel carries out new strikes in Gaza, UN chief says many trapped in north
CAIRO (Reuters) -At least 60 people were killed in Israeli military strikes on Gaza on Wednesday, Palestinian medics said on Wednesday, as Israeli forces pressed on with a raid in the enclave's north where a U.N. aid official said hunger is spreading again. The Israeli military says the raid, now in its fifth day, is intended to stop Hamas fighters staging further attacks from Jabalia and to prevent them regrouping. It has been overshadowed by Israel's conflict with Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and plans to retaliate for last week's Iranian missile attack.
- INSIDER
Israel may have military superiority, but it lacks a clear strategic vision, say experts
Israel may have achieved tactical gains against Hamas and Hezbollah, but it lacks a long-term strategy to end the war, security experts told BI.
- Reuters
Saudi Crown Prince meets Iran foreign minister in Riyadh, Saudi agency says
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Iran's foreign minister Abbas Araqchi discussed developments in the region at a meeting in Riyadh on Wednesday, the Saudi state news agency (SPA) reported. Top oil exporter Saudi Arabia has had a political rapprochement with Tehran in recent years, which has helped ease regional tensions, but relations remain difficult.
- The Guardian
Airstrikes caught on camera as Israel continues wave of attacks on Lebanon
Israel began a third day of strikes in southern Lebanon, hours after Hezbollah confirmed the death of a senior commander in an airstrike on Beirut. Beginning at about 5am on Wednesday, Lebanese media reported that Israeli airstrikes had targeted several areas in the south. Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it had launched a rocket targeting the Mossad headquarters near Tel Aviv. Israel says the rocket was intercepted. Footage from a coastal town in Lebanon caught the moment an Israeli airstrike caused a huge explosion, while dashcam footage from a car in Israel showed a rocket landing on a motorway in the north.