The Israel-Hezbollah Campaign for Sixty Years in a Row: Israel, Hamas, Lebanon, and Gaza

There was no immediate word on casualties in the strike. The Israeli army spokesman, Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari, said it targeted the main Hezbollah headquarters, located beneath residential buildings. The TV station said four buildings were reduced to rubble in the blast and it was so powerful it shook houses 30 kilometers north of Lebanon. The sirens wailed as the ambulances went to the scene of the explosions.

Shortly after Netanyahu vowed to continue Israel’s campaign against Hezbollah, there was a strike in Dahiyeh. Thousands of Hezbollah members were massed in the suburb to attend the funeral of three of them, who had been killed in earlier strikes.

Netanyahu said at the U. UN that he would continue degrading Hezbollah until it achieved Israel’s goals.

The last Israel-Hezbollah war in 2006 damaged parts of their country. Or worse, they fear, Lebanon could suffer devastation on the scale caused in Gaza by Israel’s nearly yearlong campaign against Hamas.

The Lebanese health ministry announced late Friday that six people had died and more than 90 had been injured by the strikes, but authorities said they were still clearing vast quantities of rubble, meaning those numbers would likely rise.

Netanyahu’s diplomatic frustrations with the UN: Netanyahu denies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon

The proceedings at the court were brought to the attention of the Israeli premier during his New York meeting with his Dutch counterpart. According to Netanyahu’s office, he insisted during the bilateral conversation that the prosecutor’s actions constituted “a political proceeding based on false libels that endanger every democracy defending itself against terrorism.”

As the Israeli military calls up further reserves close to the northern border and responds to Hezbollah rocket fire with dozens of airstrikes in Lebanon, Netanyahu also remains at the center of a high-profile demand for an arrest warrant against him, issued by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court, which is based in The Hague, Netherlands.

Danny Danon told the UN that the government was pushing for certain terms in any deal. He said he preferred diplomacy to achieve the goals of the war. The goals are to allow the refugees to return to their homes in Israel. And to push Hezbollah from the southern Lebanon area.”

But nearly a year into Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza, the Israeli leader’s behavior during many months of on-again-off-again cease-fire negotiations has not only infuriated his political opponents and a sizable chunk of his own citizens, but has confounded many world leaders too.

Critics have often in recent months said that Netanyahu — whose political savvy has helped him survive repeatedly to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister in history — will agree to show negotiating flexibility during private meetings, before issuing public statements that block progress during peace talks.

Though his arrival in New York for the General Assembly had been delayed due to domestic issues, he told the crowd that he had decided to come and set the record straight.

Source: Netanyahu defies calls for a cease-fire at the U.N., as Israel strikes Lebanon

Israel’s Operation on Oct. 7: The U.N. is a “Swamp of Antisemitic Bile”

Abbas told delegates that Israel did not deserve its U.N. membership, given that its government has, in his words, “exploited” the Oct. 7 The Hamas-led attack on Israel began a war of genocide on the Gaza Strip and continued to commit war crimes when recognized by the international community. Israel has denied committing genocide or other war crimes, arguing that it is fighting to defeat militant groups and defend itself from further attacks.

For days, Arab leaders including Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas had been assailing the behavior of the Israeli military in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.

Many of the delegates in the U.N. hall stood up and swiftly left in a public snub at the start of his address — in which he called the U.N. a “swamp of antisemitic bile.”

In a fiery speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York Friday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said his country is “winning” on multiple fronts and would attack Iran and its proxies anywhere in the Middle East, even as Israeli air force jets were preparing to pound a complex of buildings in central Beirut that Israel says serve as a headquarters for the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah.

There is no clarity on the scope of Israel’s operation, but officials have said a ground invasion is a possibility. Israel moved thousands of troops toward the border in preparation.

The United Nations said the fighting has displaced 211,000 people, including 85,000 now staying in public schools and other shelters. Air strikes have forced 20 primary care centers to shut down, and have disrupted access to clean water for nearly 300,000 people.

The main Hezbollah headquarters was struck, according to the Israeli army.

Israel didn’t say if the bomb used was a type of bomb or how many it used, but the explosion leveled an area larger than a city block. The Israeli army has an arsenal of American-made guided bombs that it uses to hit subterranean targets.

Footage showed rescue workers clambering over large slabs of concrete, surrounded by high piles of twisted metal and wreckage. One of the craters was a car that fell into it. A stream of residents carrying their belongings were seen fleeing along a main road out of the district.

The series of blasts at around nightfall reduced six apartment towers to rubble in Haret Hreik, a densely populated, predominantly Shiite district of Beirut’s Dahiyeh suburbs, according to Lebanon’s national news agency. A wall of smoke waslching into the sky as houses shook and windows rattled 30 kilometers to the north of Lebanon.

The news of the blast came as Netanyahu was speaking to reporters. Netanyahu ended the briefings when a military aide whispered into his ear.

The Israeli Attacks on Hezbollah and the Assault on Lebanon in the Light of the Gaza Ebolbolev Explosion

It is probable that the death toll will increase as teams comb through the rubble. Following the initial blast, Israel launched strikes on other areas of the southern suburbs.

61 people were wounded and at least six were killed, according to the health ministry. It was the largest explosion to hit Lebanon in the past year and it was likely to push the conflict closer to war.

Hussein Fadlallah, Hezbollah’s top official in Beirut, said in a speech that no matter how many commanders Israel kills, the group has endless numbers of experienced fighters. Hezbollah will fight until Israel stops its offensive in Gaza.

The crowd waved their fists in the air and shouted, “We will never accept humiliation” as they walked behind the coffins.

Hezbollah officials and their supporters remain defiant. Several thousand people gathered in another part of the suburbs for the funeral of three Hezbollah members killed in earlier strikes, including the head of the group’s drone unit.

In the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, civil defense workers pulled the bodies of two women — 35-year-old Hiba Ataya and her mother Sabah Olyan — from the rubble of a building brought down by a strike.

The official said that Israel wanted to dismantle the Hamas military and political regime in Gaza but that the goal in Lebanon was to push Hezbollah away from the border.

The Israeli military said in a post on the social media platform X that Nasrallah would no longer be able to wreak havoc, causing loud music to ring out across Tel Aviv.

During his 32-year tenure atop a group that several countries, including the United States, have labeled as a terrorist organization, Nasrallah only rarely made public appearances.

The announcement Saturday of Hezbollah’s leader added that the group’s senior military commander for the region close to Lebanon’s border with Israel was also killed. This would effectively mean much of Hezbollah’s command structure had been taken out by Israeli attacks in the past two months, as tit-for-tat rocket, artillery, tank and aircraft missiles continued across the border.

Israel’s top military commander, Chief of the General Staff Lieutenant General Herzi Halevi, issued a video statement Saturday, in which he said the unprecedented strikes Friday that had targeted Hezbollah’s leadership was “not the end” for what he termed Israel’s “toolbox.’