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Biden said that the day after, Nasrallah made the decision 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 is attacking Israel.
Biden said that the murder of Hezbollah leader Nasrallah was a measure of justice for his victims.
Lebanon’s Information Minister said on Sunday that the talks for a ceasefire with Israel were still under way even though the cross-border exchanges of fire continued.
The conflict in the Middle East region has gone on since last October, with Israel’s killing of Nasrallah now representing another dramatic new development.
The latest exchanges of fire and Israel’s preparations to attack southern Lebanon have heightened fears that there could be a war between Israel and Hezbollah.
The projectiles launched from Lebanon into Israel on Sunday hit open areas in the north of Israel, the IDF said.
The IDF says it has attacked hundreds of Hezbollah targets since Saturday, aiming its attacks in Dahieh, a densely populated southern suburb of Beirut and Hezbollah stronghold.
The Israel Defense Forces said it targeted buildings containing weapons and military structures in a statement on Telegram.
Benjamin Netanyahu returned to Israel from the United Nations earlier than he had planned as it was reported that Israel was about to make an invasion of Lebanon after some of its soldiers were called up to the north.
Israel had already been conducting brief intelligence-gathering raids inside southern Lebanon this week, as it was preparing for a limited ground offensive, an official in the Middle East told NPR.
The Israeli Defense Ministry said israel had killed Nasrallah and its allies in a series of air attacks during the Sept. 27 U.N.-Israel War
On Saturday, the U.K. Foreign Secretary David Lammy reiterated calls for a ceasefire, saying in a post on X that he had spoken with the Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati.
Israel announced on Saturday that it had killed Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah in an series of airstrikes in Lebanon on Friday. The Iranian-backed militia said that Nasrallah had died.
The northern Israeli city of Haifa is home to some of the world’s tallest buildings. Haifa was the first city targeted by Israel during the war.
Sept. 27: In his speech at the General Assembly, Netanyahu said that he would attack Iran and its allies anywhere in the Middle East. The delegates leave the U.N hall in a public snub at the start of his speech in which he called the UN a swamp of antisemitic bile.
A new wave of bombings, which included walkie-talkies, killed at least 14 people and wounded 450 in Lebanon, health officials said. The Israeli Defense Minister didn’t mention the device attacks of the previous two days but he did speak about how great the achievements were by Israel’s military and intelligence branches.
The deputy director of the Houthi media office said that they took precautionary measures ahead of the strikes and emptied oil in the ports. He said in a post on X that the strikes won’t stop the rebels’ attacks on shipping routes and on Israel.
Also on Sunday, the Israeli military said dozens of its aircraft struck Houthi targets in Yemen in response to a recent attack. The military targets power plants in the city of Hodeida.
Israel expands attacks in Lebanon: A video of the Sidon strike and the evacuation of families in Dover Air Force Base in Washington, where Joe Biden left Air Force One
Meanwhile, wreckage from Friday’s strike that killed Nasrallah was still smoldering. 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 said that he will speak to Benjamin Netanyahu soon and thinks that the war in the Middle East needs to be avoided. “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 the Sidon strike, a building swayed before collapsing as people filmed it. One TV station called on viewers to pray for a family caught under the rubble, posting their pictures, as rescuers failed to reach them. The Lebanese Health Ministry reported at least 14 medics were killed over two days in the south.
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.
Israel says it is determined to return some 60,000 of its citizens to communities in the north that were evacuated nearly a year ago. Hezbollah has said it will stop rocket fire only if there is a cease-fire in the Gaza Strip.
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Hezbollah announced that the deputy head of its central council, Nabil Kaouk, was the seventh Hezbollah leader killed in Israeli strikes. They include the group’s founding members who had evaded death or detention for decades.
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.
A large number 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.
Kirby didn’t address whether the Biden administration agrees with the way Israel is targeting Hezbollah leaders. The White House called on Israel and Hezbollah to agree to a 21-day cease-fire at the UN General Assembly last week.
“I think people are safer without him walking around,” Kirby said of Nasrallah. They will try to make up for it. This leadership vacuum is something we are watching to see how they fill it. It’s going to be tough. Many of their command structure has been wiped out.
John Kirby, White House national security spokesman, said that Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon wiped out Hezbollah’s command structure, but the group will quickly rebuild it.
The commander with the militant group Hamas was killed early Monday in a strike. Hamas said that the Al-Buss refugee camp in the southern port city of Tyre was the site of an airstrike that killed a man and his family.
The Sunni militant group, which fights with Hezbollah, has not confirmed the death of any of its members, despite an earlier statement by an official with Lebanon’s Civil Defense.
The Associated Press journalist at the scene said that the airstrike hit a multistory residential building. Videos showed ambulances and a crowd gathered near the building in a mainly Sunni district with a busy thoroughfare lined with shops.
Israel’s air strikes in the Gaza Strip have knocked Hezbollah off balance: a warning to Iran before leaving the Middle East
The official in the region mentioned that there could be a possibility of a ground incursion. The U.S. official and the official in the Middle East spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the operation.
U.S. officials have estimated that Israel is not prepared for a major ground offensive inside Lebanon because its troops are stretched thin following a year of ground operations inside Gaza after the Hamas-led Oct. 7 attack.
According to an interview with Israeli Army Radio broadcast on Monday, Tamir Hayman, who was the former head of Israel’s military intelligence division, said that Israel’s airstrikes in Lebanon had knocked Hezbollah off balance.
But he said Israel should decide soon whether to launch a ground invasion, and for what purpose: to create a permanent security buffer zone that Israel would occupy long term, with much international opposition, or only to remain temporarily to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure?
The U.S is concerned about the repercussions of Israel’s actions in the region. US troops in Iraq and Syria could be in danger of being retaliated against.
Shortly before air raid sirens blared across central Israel, Netanyahu landed in the country. The missile was destroyed by the Israeli military.
Israeli security analysts said Israel’s bombing campaign in Yemen was a message to Iran, showing Israel’s long-range flight capability as a tacit warning to Iran that it, too, was within Israel’s reach.