Israel says it will target Hezbollah’s financial arm and announces imminent attacks in Lebanon

Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – Israel’s military says it will now target the financial arm of Lebanon-based Hezbollah and plans to attack “a large number of targets” in Beirut and elsewhere in the coming hours .

Israeli military spokesman Rear. Admiral Daniel Hagari says they will issue an evacuation warning for people in parts of Beirut, and “anyone who is near sites used to finance Hezbollah’s terrorist activity should immediately stay away from them.” will be.”

A senior Israeli intelligence official said the strikes would target al-Qard al-Hassan. The registered non-profit institution, sanctioned by both the US and Saudi Arabia, provides financial services and is also used by ordinary Lebanese.

Al-Qard al-Hassan is a Hezbollah unit and is used to help pay the Iran-backed terrorist group’s operatives and buy weapons, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with military regulations.

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Deir al-Balah, Gaza Strip – At least 87 people were killed or missing in Israeli attacks on homes in the northern Gaza Strip overnight and Sunday, the territory’s health ministry said, amid a massive operation against Hamas militants. Continued, who are said to be regrouping. ,

The ministry said another 40 people were wounded in the attacks on the city of Beit Lahiya, which was one of the first targets of Israel’s ground offensive nearly a year ago. The Israeli military said it attacked a Hamas position.

Palestinian officials say Israel’s two-week operation in northern Gaza has killed hundreds of people, and the health sector is near collapse.

Meanwhile, the United States was investigating the unauthorized release of classified documents indicating that Israel was moving military assets to Israel for a military strike in response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack on October 1, according to three US officials who spoke. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Iran supports both Hamas and Lebanon-based Hezbollah.

The US is urging Israel to press for a ceasefire in Gaza following the killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar last week. But neither Israel nor Hamas have shown interest in such an agreement after talks stalled in August.

Lebanese army says 3 soldiers killed in Israeli attack

A year-long tension between Israel and Hezbollah escalated into full-scale war last month and Israel sent ground troops into Lebanon earlier this month.

The Lebanese army said three soldiers were killed in an Israeli attack on their vehicle in southern Lebanon on Sunday. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military, which said it had struck more than 100 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon in the past day and was continuing ground operations there.

The Lebanese army has been largely marginalized in the war. The army is a respected institution in Lebanon, but it is not powerful enough to impose its will on Hezbollah or protect the country from Israeli aggression.

Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired more than 170 rockets into the country on Sunday. Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service said three people were slightly injured in a fire caused by a rocket attack on the northern city of Safed.

Israel has stepped up attacks on Beirut’s southern neighborhood of Dahiyah, a crowded residential area where Hezbollah has a strong presence. It is also home to many civilians unaffiliated with the terrorist group.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has described civilian casualties in Lebanon in the Israel-Hezbollah war as “extremely high”, and he has urged Israel to reduce some attacks, particularly in and around Beirut.

Doctors warn of dire situation in Gaza

According to Rahim Kheder, a physician, those killed in the attacks in Beit Lahiya included parents and eight children. He said a multi-storey building and at least four neighboring houses were destroyed in the attack.

The Israeli military said it used precision munitions against Hamas targets. It said the area was an active war zone and it was trying to avoid harming civilians.

Health Ministry Director General Munir al-Bursh posted on Twitter that the flood of wounded from the attacks had created a “devastating situation for the already devastating health care system” in northern Gaza.

Six people, including a child, were killed after being hit by a car in Deir al-Balah in central Gaza, officials at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital said. The bodies were counted by journalists.

Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, called on Israeli forces to immediately stop their attacks on hospitals in northern Gaza, after the health ministry said Israeli troops fired on two hospitals over the weekend. Did.

MSF emergency coordinator Anna Halford said sustained Israeli military operations in northern Gaza over the past two weeks “are having terrible consequences.”

The Israeli military said it was operating near a hospital, but did not directly fire at it.

Internet connectivity was cut off in northern Gaza late Saturday night, making it difficult to gather information about the attacks and complicating rescue efforts.

Israeli campaign in northern Gaza enters third week

Israeli forces have repeatedly returned to Jabaliya in northern Gaza, a densely populated urban refugee camp that dates back to the war that followed Israel’s creation in 1948. The north has suffered the heaviest destruction of the war, and has been besieged by Israeli forces since late last year.

Israel ordered the entire population of the northern third of Gaza, including Gaza City, to evacuate to the south in the early weeks of the war and reiterated those instructions this month. Most of the population fled last year, but about 400,000 are believed to still remain.

On October 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants breached Israel’s security fence and attacked, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting another 250. About 100 detainees are still held in Gaza, a third of whom are believed to be dead.

Israel’s offensive in Gaza has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish combatants from civilians. The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced about 90% of its population of 2.3 million people.

Sammy Magdy reported from Cairo. Karim Chehayeb in Beirut and Zeke Miller, Mike Balsamo, Eric Tucker and Tara Cope in Washington contributed to this report.

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