Israel additionally tightens a siege round hospitals in Jabalia in northern Gaza, the place residents and medical officers stated Israeli forces are bombing homes
JERUSALEM, Israel – The Israeli navy stated Hezbollah had fired dozens of rockets and several other drones into northern Israel on Saturday, October 19, killing one particular person, with one drone directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vacation residence, in keeping with his spokesperson.
The volley from the Iran-backed Lebanese group got here as well being officers in Gaza, the place Israel has been battling Palestinian militant group Hamas for greater than a yr, stated Israeli strikes had killed greater than 30 individuals throughout the territory.
Pledges from Israel and its enemies Hamas and Hezbollah to maintain combating in Gaza and Lebanon have dashed hopes that the demise of Hamas chief Yahya Sinwar may hasten an finish to greater than a yr of escalating conflict within the Center East.
Sinwar, a mastermind of the October 7, 2023, assault that triggered the Gaza conflict, was killed by Israeli troopers within the Palestinian enclave on Wednesday.
Israel additionally tightened a siege round hospitals in Jabalia in northern Gaza, the place residents and medical officers stated Israeli forces have been bombing homes and stopping medical and meals provides from getting into.
Israel has been pounding Jabalia, the biggest of Gaza’s eight historic refugee camps, in what it says is an effort to cease Hamas fighters regrouping. It stated troops had been briefed to on mitigating hurt to civilians and medical infrastructure.
As Israel continues navy offensives on two fronts, Lebanon’s well being ministry stated no less than two individuals had been killed in an Israeli strike close to the Christian-majority city of Jounieh, north of Beirut, within the first such assault on the world.
Witnesses described passengers operating from a automotive after a blast, then seeing the charred stays of 1 passenger after a second blast.
The Israeli navy was wanting into the report of the strike, a spokesperson stated. There was no instant remark from Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group that’s combating Israeli troops on Lebanon’s southern border and whose high management has suffered blows from focused Israeli strikes.
‘Missiles seized’
At the very least 4 Israeli strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs on Saturday afternoon, in keeping with Reuters witnesses, after an Israeli navy spokesperson issued warnings on social media platform X for 2 places within the space.
Individually, the Israeli navy stated its plane killed Hezbollah’s deputy commander of the Bint Jbeil space on Friday and that its troops had seized weapons together with anti-tank missiles.
Hezbollah by noon on Saturday had claimed 11 assaults on Israeli navy targets since midnight, all of them with salvos of rockets. There was no instant remark from it on any drone assaults or assaults focusing on Netanyahu’s residence.
In northern Israel, among the rockets have been intercepted however one hit a residential constructing, in keeping with police.
One particular person was killed and no less than 9 individuals have been injured in several places, the Israeli ambulance service stated. Air raid sirens despatched individuals operating to shelters.
Netanyahu’s spokesperson stated the prime minister was not within the neighborhood of his vacation residence in Caesarea and there have been no casualties.
A resident of the coastal city advised Israel’s N12 Information that helicopters have been heard above the city earlier than a big explosion shook the streets.
Later, Israeli media revealed a video of Netanyahu strolling in a park. “Nothing will deter us, we are going to maintain going till victory,” he stated within the video filmed by one in all his aides.
Stalled talks
Hezbollah has been buying and selling fireplace with Israel for the reason that conflict between Israel and Palestinian militant group Hamas started in Gaza final October.
Practically three weeks in the past, Israel launched a floor assault inside Lebanon in an try and stabilize the border area for its residents who had fled the combating.
Some 2,400 individuals have been killed in Lebanon, most of them within the final month, in keeping with Lebanon’s well being ministry, whereas 59 individuals have been killed in northern Israel and the occupied Golan Heights, in keeping with Israeli authorities.
Of their assault on October 7, 2023, Hamas-led militants killed some 1,200 individuals and took 250 hostage, in keeping with Israeli tallies. Israel’s navy response has left greater than 42,500 individuals useless, Palestinian officers say.
The Israeli offensive has made most of Gaza’s 2.3 million individuals homeless, maimed tens of hundreds, precipitated widespread starvation and destroyed hospitals and colleges.
Western leaders, together with US President Joe Biden, have stated Sinwar’s demise provided an opportunity for a deal for a truce in Gaza and the discharge of the remaining hostages. The European Union’s international coverage chief echoed these feedback on Saturday.
Negotiations for such a deal have been stalled for weeks.
Biden stated on Friday that there was a risk of working in direction of a ceasefire in Lebanon however it could be tougher in Gaza. – Rappler.com
