The Houthi Revisited: “Existence of Israeli attacks on Gaza” and “Continuity of Israel’s offensive in Yemen”

The Houthis claimed they took precautionary measures ahead of the strikes, emptying oil stored in the ports, according to Nasruddin Ammer, deputy director of the Houthi media office. He said in a post on X that the strikes won’t stop the rebels’ attacks on shipping routes and on Israel.

The Israeli military is engaged in battles on a number of fronts. Israel’s operation in Gaza continues with deadly strikes. Israel said on Sunday that it sent dozens of jet fighters to bomb Yemen because it was trying to prevent the country from exporting oil to Saudi Arabia. The Houthis said the areas hit were civilian targets and that at least four people were killed and dozens wounded in the Israeli strikes.

A wave of Israeli airstrikes across large parts of Lebanon have killed more than 1,030 people — including 156 women and 87 children — in less than two weeks, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

Meanwhile, wreckage from Friday’s strike that killed Nasrallah was still smoldering. Smoke rose as people went to look at what had been done to their homes or simply to see the destruction.

Israel’s Cold War with Hezbollah: President Barack Biden and the State of the Mid-Atlantic Reionization

Biden is going to talk to Benjamin Netanyahu soon and he believes that there will be no all out war in the Middle East. “It has to be,” Biden told reporters at Dover Air Force Base in Delaware as he boarded Air Force One for Washington.

A building swayed before it collapsed as people filmed it in a video verified by the AP. A TV station encouraged viewers to pray for a family trapped in the rubble, as rescuers could not reach them. The Health Ministry reported at least 14 medics were killed in the last two days.

105 people were killed in the country on Sunday according to the Health Ministry. Two strikes near the southern city of Sidon, about 45 kilometers (28 miles) south of Beirut, killed at least 32 people, the ministry said. Separately, Israeli strikes in the northern province of Baalbek Hermel killed 21 people and wounded at least 47.

An official with Lebanon’s Civil Defense had earlier said that a member of the al-Jamaa al-Islamiya was killed in the strike and that 16 other people were wounded, but the Sunni militant group, which fights alongside Hezbollah, has not confirmed the death of any of its members.

About 60,000 people from Israel were evacuated to the north a year ago, and Israel says it is determined to get them back. 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. The United States announced sanctions against him in 2020.

Hezbollah, a Hezbollah group and political party that is backed by Iran, gained attention after fighting a war with Israel in 2006 that ended in a draw.

The Strike of a Hezbollah Command Structure: Israeli Bombing in Lebanon and the Implications for the Security of the United States

Hundreds of thousands of people have been driven from their homes. The government estimates around 250,000 are in shelters, with three to four times as many staying with friends or relatives, or camping out on the streets.

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 continues to call on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day temporary cease-fire floated by the U.S., France and other countries during the U.N. General Assembly last week.

“I think people are safer without him walking around,” Kirby said of Nasrallah. “But they will try to recover. They will try to fill the leadership vacuum. It’s going to be tough. … Much of their command structure has now been wiped out.”

John Kirby, a White House national security spokesman, said Israel’s bombing in Lebanon wiped out Hezbollah’s command structure, but that the group will work quickly to rebuild it.

The commander of the militant group Hamas was killed in a strike early Monday. According to Hamas, the Al-Buss refugee camp in the southern port city of Tyre was hit by an Airstrike, and it cost the lives of the family of Fatah Sharif.

Three members of a Palestinian group are dead in Lebanon after an airstrike. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said in a statement early Monday that its military and security commanders in Lebanon, and a third member, were killed in the attack.

In the middle of the night on Monday, a building in central Lebanon was leveled by a possible Israeli airstrike. Hezbollah suffered heavy blows to its command structure, including the killing of its leader, as Israel hit targets across Lebanon.

A senior U.S. official told NPR that Israel may send more forces into southern Lebanon, where they are currently conducting a raid.

“Everything is on the table,” the official in the region said about a possibility of a ground incursion. The official in the Middle East and the U.S. official spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the operation.

Tamir Hayman: Israel’s air strikes against Hezbollah and a warning to Israel about a “mission creep”

Tamir Hayman, who served as the head of Israel’s military intelligence directorate until 2021, said in an interview on Israeli Army Radio on Monday that Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon had successfully knocked Hezbollah off balance.

He said Israel needs to decide soon if it should launch a ground invasion or create a permanent buffer zone to protect against Hezbollah, or if it should just destroy Hezbollah infrastructure.

A White House official told NPR the U.S. supports the incursion but is warning Israel about “mission creep.” The ambassador told Israeli public radio the U.S. is concerned about regional escalation but it has not limited Israel’s incursion.

Netanyahu landed in Israel shortly before air raid sirens wailed at the airport and throughout central Israel. The Israeli military said it intercepted the missile midair.

The analysts said Israel’s campaign in Yemen was meant to send a message to Iran that it, too, was within Israel’s reach.

The Lebanese army had moved back from some checkpoints at the southern border with Israel amid intense artillery shelling by Israeli forces. An army official who is not authorized to speak publicly told NPR that this was a re-position of positions that were vulnerable to an Israeli incursion.

In a televised address on Monday, Hezbollah’s deputy leader said that the resistance forces are ready for a ground engagement. That was despite a series of devastating Israeli attacks on Hezbollah leaders and members in recent weeks.