The Fate of the Hamas Leader, Nasrallah, in the Gaza Strip: An Address to the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The U.K. Foreign Secretary said on Saturday in a post on his website that he had spoken with the Prime Minister of Lebanon.

The president called Nasrallah’s death “a measure of justice for his many victims, including thousands of Americans, Israelis, and Lebanese civilians.” He said that Israel has the right to defend itself against any Iranian-supported terrorist groups.

Both Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the two main militant groups in Gaza that have been labeled as terrorist organizations by the United States and several other nations, were defiant. Islamic Jihad said it was “fully confident” that Nasrallah’s death would “increase the strength, steadfastness and determination of the resistance in Lebanon, Palestine and the region,” while a statement released by Hamas said history showed the deaths of leaders such as Nasrallah meant they would be “succeeded on the same path by a generation of leaders who are more valiant, stronger and more determined.” Hamas senior figure Khalid al-Hayya said on Al Jazeera that the souls of both Nasr and Haniyeh were inside the birds of heaven.

“Syrians are more concerned at the moment with getting them to safety, and helping them in the humanitarian sense,” Makki said, while acknowledging the broader impact of the Hezbollah leader’s death. Nasrallah is a huge individual in the region and has been involved in politics of the Middle East.

Since Hezbollah began sending missiles into northern Israel on Oct. 8, a day after the Hamas-led assault on southern Israel, the group has fired 9,300 rockets, killing 49 people and wounding 372, according to the Israeli prime minister’s office. More than 1,000 people have been killed in Lebanon over the past 10 days, according to the health ministry. More than 6,000 people have been wounded.

Thousands of Israeli soldiers have been called up and sent to the country’s border with Lebanon as Hezbollah continues to fire rockets at Israel.

Sept. 20: Israel strikes a residential building in a crowded Beirut suburb during rush hour, later announcing it has killed Ibrahim Akil, Hezbollah’s military commander. Entire families and at least thirty people were killed in the strike. Hezbollah later confirmed Akil’s death, along with 15 other Hezbollah members. The US had a warrant for Akil’s arrest for his role in the attack on the embassy. Akil planned to attack north Israel like the Hamas-led attack that sparked the war in Gaza, the military said.

Even though Nasrhood was dead, his spirit, spirit, line, and sacred approach would remain and he would be described as a martyr, heroic, bold, brave, wise, insightful, and faithful leader.

In Washington, President Biden in a White House statement said Nasrallah and Hezbollah “were responsible for killing hundreds of Americans over a four-decade reign of terror.”

The Iranian news agency, Mehr, reported that an operational head of the Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps was looking into the potential of the attack to ignite a wider Middle East conflict. Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan, had also been killed in the strike. Iran has long financed and supported Hezbollah, while also supplying weapons and missile technology to the group.

Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the war there. Hezbollah and Hamas are allies that consider themselves part of an Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance” against Israel.

In his first public remarks on Friday’s attack, Netanyahu said the assassination of Nasrallah, who he described as “the architect” of a plan to “annihilate” Israel, was an “essential condition” for Israel to achieve its war goals.

The Israeli military imposed restrictions on public gatherings in the central part of the country to make sure that they weren’t hit by Hezbollah or other Iranian-supported militias.

Israel’s Northern Front: The Nasrallah-Hamas War in the Context of the 2023 Oslo-Arab Collisions

Biden said that Nasrallah decided to join hands with Hamas in order to open a northern front against Israel.

In a separate statement, Biden noted the operation to take out Nasrallah happened within the wider context of the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attacks against Israel.

Even as Israeli forces prepared for a response to retaliatory strikes from Hezbollah, Lebanon’s Information Minister said on Sunday that negotiations for a ceasefire with Israel were still “underway” even as cross-border exchanges of fire continued.

Since last October, there’s been a conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has spread across the Middle East region.

Sept. 22: Hezbollah and Israel trade heavy fire overnight and into the early morning hours. In southern Lebanon, residents described huge explosions that lit up the night sky. The Israeli military said it hit some 290 targets, including Hezbollah rocket launchers, while some of Hezbollah’s rockets hit deeper into Israel than they have previously in this war.

The projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday, hitting open areas near Tiberias in Israel’s north.

“The IDF continues to attack with force, damage and degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon,” the Israeli military said in a post on X.

In a statement on the messaging app Telegram, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its air forces targeted “buildings where weapons and military structures of the organization were stored.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel earlier than expected from his trip to the United Nations as Israel was said to be preparing for an invasion into southern Lebanon after reservists were called up to Israel’s north.

Israel carried out dozens of additional raids on Hezbollah targets early Sunday as reports surfaced that two senior Hezbollah commanders died in the assassination of their leader.

In Haifa and nearby towns there is a sound of sirens. Haifa was the target for the first time since the war began, according to Israel.

Sept. 27: In a fiery speech at the United Nations, Netanyahu said that Israel was “winning” on multiple fronts and would attack Iran and its proxies in the Middle East. Many of the delegates in the U.N. hall leave in a public snub at the start of his address — in which he calls the U.N. a “swamp of antisemitic bile.”

At least 13 people, including some children, were killed when pagers exploded across Lebanon and Syria at the same time. Israel is widely believed to be behind the attack, but does not publicly take credit for it. Earlier in the day, Israel had announced a new goal in the war: to return tens of thousands of displaced Israelis who had been driven from their homes near the border with Lebanon by almost a year of Hezbollah rocket fire, signaling it might take further military action against Hezbollah.

Netanyahu was arriving at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport on Saturday when the missile attack was launched. The Iranian-backed rebels said that Israeli strikes hit their ports and power plants in the city of Hodeida. The Health Ministry said four people were killed in the strikes.

The Israeli military said it hit the targets of the Houthis in Yemen following a recent attack. The military said it hit power plants in the city of Hodeida.

On the collapse of a residential building in the smoldering Thursday morning airstrike of southern Israeli Hezbollah

There were still smoldering pieces of Friday’s strike that killed Nasrallah. Smoke rose over the rubble as people flocked to the site, some to check on what was left of their homes and others to pay respects, pray or simply to see the destruction.

President Joe Biden wants to avoid a war in the Middle East and will speak with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu soon. “It has to be,” Biden told reporters at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as he boarded Air Force One for Washington.

In a video of a strike in Sidon, verified by the AP, a building swayed before collapsing as neighbors filmed. The station asked viewers to pray for a family caught under the rubble, as rescuers were not able to reach them. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported at least 14 medics were killed over two days in the south.

A total of 105 people were killed in Lebanon in Sunday’s airstrikes. Two strikes near the southern city of Sidon, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Beirut, killed at least 32 people, the ministry said. At least 21 people were killed and over 45 were wounded in an Israeli air strike in the northern province of Baalbek Hermel.

Israel will return 60,000 of its citizens to the north where they were evacuated a year ago. Hezbollah has said it will only halt its rocket fire if there is a cease-fire in Gaza, which has proven elusive despite months of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.

Kaouk was a veteran member of Hezbollah going back to the 1980s and served as Hezbollah’s military commander in southern Lebanon during the 2006 war with Israel. He’s been hit with sanctions from the US in 2020.

Hezbollah, a Lebanese militant group and political party backed by Iran, Israel’s chief regional rival, rose to regional prominence after fighting a devastating monthlong war with Israel in 2006 that ended in a draw.

Source: An airstrike hits a Beirut residential building as Israel expands attacks in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon kill dozens of people and injure a Palestinian commander in the refugee camp of JerusALEM

Hundreds of thousands of people have left their homes. The government estimates that about a quarter of a million people are in shelters with three to four times the number staying with friends or relatives.

Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Kirby sidestepped questions about whether the Biden administration agrees with how the Israelis are targeting Hezbollah leaders. The White House wants Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21 day cease fire as a goodwill gesture from the U.N.

“I think people are safer without him walking around,” Kirby said of Nasrallah. “But they will try to recover. We are watching to see what they do to fill the leadership vacuum. It is going to be difficult. A lot of the structure of their commands has been wiped out.

Meanwhile, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon had “wiped out” Hezbollah’s command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it.

Also early Monday, another strike killed a commander with the militant group Hamas, which has a presence in Lebanon’s Palestinian refugee camps. Hamas said that a family, including a child, were killed in an airstrike on the Al-Buss refugee camp.

A Palestinian leftist faction in Lebanon said three of its members were killed in the airstrike. In a statement early Monday morning, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said that its military and security commanders in Lebanon were killed in the attack.

JERUSALEM — The first apparent Israeli airstrike on central Beirut in nearly a year of conflict leveled an apartment building early Monday. It came after Israel hit targets across Lebanon, killing dozens of people as Hezbollah suffered heavy blows to its command structure.