Israel Iran War Live Updates: Israel killed Hezbollah rocket unit commander Jafar Khacher Faor 'responsible for attacks since October 8,' military claims

Israel-Hamas war: Commander of drone portfolio of 'Nasser' unit eliminated

Israel Hamas War: Israel killed Hezbollah rocket unit commander 'responsible for firing rockets at Majdal Shams, which killed 12 children and teenagers'

"Jafar Khacher Faor was responsible, among other things, for firing rockets from the Golan sector, which killed a couple of Israeli civilians from Kibbutz Ortal, for the shooting at Majdal Shams, which killed 12 children and teenagers and wounded dozens of other civilians, as well as for the shooting at Metula on Thursday, which resulted in the killing of five civilians," IDF said in a post on X

Israel Hamas War Live: Israel killed Hezbollah rocket unit commander 'responsible for attacks on Israel'

The Israeli military said that it has killed Hezbollah rocket unit commander Jafar Khacher Faor who is 'responsible for attacks on Israel since October 8.' The military also said that they killed him in the Joya area in the southern Lebanon. Along with him, the commander of the drone portfolio in the unit was also eliminated

Israel Hamas War Live: Egypt hosts Fatah-Hamas post-war Gaza talks as part of ceasefire efforts

Representatives from the rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas are convening in Cairo to deliberate on establishing a committee for Gaza's governance after the war, according to an Egyptian security source's statement to Al Qahera News TV on Saturday.

The discussions form a component of Egypt's comprehensive diplomatic initiative to negotiate a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, whilst also seeking to enhance humanitarian aid access to Gaza.

Senior figures from Hamas and President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement previously gathered in Cairo last month to consider Egypt's proposal for the committee's formation, but the discussions were postponed for future consideration.

Iran's 3rd attack? Hezbollah bombs 4 IDF bases while 'enemy Aircraft' keep choppers busy for 40 mins

Israel Hezbollah War Live: 'Hezbollah says targeted 'military industries' in Haifa, northern Israel

The Lebanese militant organisation Hezbollah announced on Saturday that it launched rockets targeting Israeli defence facilities in Zvulun, in proximity to Haifa in northern Israel, subsequent to executing a drone strike on a facility south of Tel Aviv.

The Iran-supported organisation issued a statement confirming that they conducted two separate "salvos of rockets" strikes at "the Zvulun base for military industries north of the city of Haifa" on Saturday. The group also confirmed its earlier operation involving unmanned aerial vehicles against the Palmahim air installation situated south of Tel Aviv.

Israelis 'hide' as Iranian militia rain drones on IDF sites in Eilat; Iran Proxy's Revenge Begins?

Israeli naval forces captured a Hezbollah operative Imad Fadel Amhaz in an operation conducted in Batroun, northern Lebanon, on the intervening night of Friday and Saturday, according to various media reports.

Israel Hezbollah War Live: Israeli navy captures senior Hezbollah member in northern Lebanon, Axios says

Israeli naval forces captured a senior Hezbollah official, Imad Amhaz, in an operation in northern Lebanon on Friday, Axios reporter Barak Ravid said on X, citing an Israeli official.

Israel Hamas War Live: Hezbollah says targeted 'military industries' in Haifa, northern Israel

The Lebanese militant organisation Hezbollah announced on Saturday that it launched rockets targeting Israeli defence facilities in Zvulun, in proximity to Haifa's northern region, subsequent to deploying drones against a facility south of Tel Aviv.

The Iran-supported organisation stated in its communique that it executed two separate "salvos of rockets" strikes on "the Zvulun base for military industries north of the city of Haifa" during Saturday. The group additionally reported its earlier deployment of unmanned aerial vehicles against the Palmahim air installation situated south of Tel Aviv.

Israel Hamas War Live: Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll at 43,314

The Hamas-controlled Gaza health ministry announced on Saturday that the death toll in the ongoing Israel-Palestinian conflict has reached at least 43,314 individuals.

According to the ministry's statement, 55 fatalities were recorded in the preceding 24 hours. Additionally, they reported that 102,019 people have sustained injuries in the Gaza Strip since the hostilities commenced following Hamas's attack on Israel on October 7, 2023.

Israel Iran War Live: Iraqi pro-Iran groups say carried out drone attack on Israel's Eilat

The Iraqi alliance comprising Iran-backed factions announced their responsibility for launching four drone strikes targeting Eilat, an Israeli coastal town, on Saturday. This occurred after Israeli authorities confirmed intercepting three unmanned aerial vehicles approaching from the eastern direction.

The Islamic Resistance in Iraq issued an official communication claiming responsibility for striking what they termed as "four vital targets" within the Red Sea resort. They specified that all these operations were executed within a sixty-minute timeframe.

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israel army says intercepted three drones over Red Sea

Israel announced on Saturday that their forces successfully stopped three unmanned aerial vehicles approaching from the eastern direction over the Red Sea. The military did not disclose the specific origin of these aircraft.

"A short while ago, three UAVs that were launched from the east were intercepted over the Red Sea.... the UAVs were intercepted prior to crossing into Israeli territory," the military said in a statement.

Khamenei's statement comes amid rising tensions and concerns over a wider regional conflict in the Middle East, further intensified by ongoing hostilities in Gaza and Israel's operations in Lebanon.

Iran's supreme leader on Saturday threatened both Israel and the U.S. with “a crushing response” over attacks on Iran and its allies.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei spoke as Iranian officials are increasingly threatening to launch yet another strike against Israel after its Oct. 26 on the Islamic Republic that targeted military bases and other locations and killed at least five people.

Any further attacks from either side could engulf the wider Middle East, already teetering over the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and Israel’s ground invasion of Lebanon, into a wider regional conflict just head of the U.S. presidential election this Tuesday.

“The enemies, whether the Zionist regime or the United States of America, will definitely receive a crushing response to what they are doing to Iran and the Iranian nation and to the resistance front," Khamenei said in video released by Iranian state media.

Israel Iran War Live: Strike on central Israel wounds 19

A missile strike in Israel's Sharon area wounded 19 people, police said early Saturday, after the army reported three projectiles were fired from Lebanon into central Israel.
All 19, four of whom were "in moderate condition", were taken to hospitals for treatment, the Israeli police added.

Israel's Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency medical service earlier said that several people had been wounded in a strike on the central city of Tira, including "a male around 20 with shrapnel injuries".

Videos posted by the Israeli Foreign Ministry on social media showed fire and smoke spilling from a building into the street and emergency responders swarming the site.

"This is the result of a direct hit of a Hezbollah rocket on a building in the Israeli Arab town of Tira, injuring 19 civilians," the ministry said in the post.

"We cannot and will not rest until Hezbollah is dismantled," it added.

Israel Iran War Live: Israeli military says sirens sound in central Israel

The Israeli military said in the early hours of Saturday that sirens sound in a number of areas in central Israel following launches that crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory.

Israel Iran War Live: Lebanon says 52 killed in Israeli strikes in country’s east

Lebanon’s health ministry says 52 people had been killed in Israeli strikes today in the country’s east, attacks for which the Israeli army had not issued evacuation warnings, AFP reported.

Without differentiating between civilians and combatants, the ministry reports “52 people killed and 72 wounded in an updated toll of today’s Israeli enemy strikes on the Baalbek-Hermel region.”

Israel Iran War Live: Lebanon death toll from Israeli strikes targeting Hezbollah rises to 2,897, ministry says

Israeli strikes against Hezbollah have killed at least 2,897 people and injured 13,150 in Lebanon, with 30 fatalities reported in the past 24 hours, Lebanon’s health ministry says, without differentiating between civilians and combatants, Times of Israel reported.

Hezbollah began launching near-daily cross-border attacks against Israel on October 8. Israel dramatically intensified its counter-strikes against Hezbollah last month, including with a limited ground offensive in southern Lebanon.

Israel-Iran War Live: 'Air sirens have sounded in Southern Israel's Mefalsim,' Israeli military says

Israeli military said on Friday that air raid sirens sounded in southern Israel's Mefalsim.

Izz al-Din Kassab, head of national relations in Hamas’ Political Bureau is dead

Israel eliminates top Hamas polit bureau official Izz al-Din Kassab

Izz al-Din Kassab, Head of National Relations within Hamas' Political Bureau, has reportedly been eliminated. Kassab was a senior member responsible for managing Hamas' coordination and connections with other Gaza-based militant factions. His role included overseeing strategic and military alliances, facilitating operations, and directing attacks against Israel.

In his capacity, Kassab played a crucial part in aligning Hamas’ operational strategy with other groups in Gaza, enhancing the organization’s ability to coordinate attacks. His elimination marks a significant development in the network of Hamas leadership in Gaza, potentially impacting the group's collaborative operations across the region.

Lebanon accuses Israel of rejecting truce after Beirut strikes

Lebanon's prime minister on Friday accused Israel of rejecting a ceasefire after the Israeli military bombed the Hezbollah stronghold of south Beirut for the first time this week.
At least 10 strikes hit the southern suburbs before dawn after Israel issued evacuation warnings, with AFPTV footage showing explosions and clouds of smoke.

"The raids left massive destruction in the targeted areas, as dozens of buildings were levelled to the ground, in addition to the outbreak of fires," Lebanon's National News Agency reported.

It said strikes also targeted Aley southeast of Beirut and Bint Jbeil in the south.

Death toll from Israeli strikes in Gaza rises to 25 as more bodies recovered

The death toll from Israeli strikes in the central Gaza Strip rose to 25, including five children, as more bodies have been recovered, hospital officials said Friday. Sixteen people had initially been reported killed in two strikes on Thursday on the central Nuseirat refugee camp, but officials from the Al-Aqsa hospital said bodies continued to be brought in.

Overall, the hospital said they had received 21 dead bodies from the strikes, including some transferred from the Awda hospital, where they had been brought the day before.

One of the strikes killed an 18-month-old and his 10-year-old sister - the children's mother was missing as of Friday and the father was killed by an Israeli airstrike four months ago, the family told AP journalists at Aqsa hospital.

Strikes on a motorcycle in Zuwaida and on a house in Deir al-Balah on Friday killed four more, the hospital officials said, bringing the overall toll to 25.

The Israeli military did not comment on the specific strikes but said it had killed armed militants in central and southern Gaza Thursday.

Israel's blistering offensive on the Gaza Strip has killed over 43,000 Palestinians since October 7, 2023, say health officials inside Gaza who do not distinguish between civilians and combatants. They say over half of the dead are women and children.

Israel began bombarding Gaza after the Hamas attack on Israel October 7, when the militants killed roughly 1,200 people and took some 250 hostages back to Gaza

Lebanese 'orphaned of their land' as Israel blows up homes

The news came by video. Law professor Ali Mourad discovered that Israel had dynamited his family's south Lebanon home only after footage of the operation was sent to his phone.

"A friend from the village sent me the video, telling me to make sure my dad doesn't see it," Mourad, 43, told AFP.

"But when he got the news, he stayed strong."

The aerial footage shows simultaneous explosions rock a cluster of buildings on a lush hill.

Mourad's home in Aitroun village, less than a kilometre from the border, is seen crumpling in a cloud of grey dust.

His father, an 83-year-old paediatrician, had his medical practice in the building. He had lived there with his family since shortly after Israel's 22-year occupation of southern Lebanon ended in 2000.

The family fled the region again after the Israel-Hezbollah war erupted on September 23 after a year of cross-border fire that began with the Gaza war.

South Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, has since been pummelled by Israeli strikes.

Israel Iran War Live: US envoys in Israel to seek Lebanon truce plan

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met visiting US officials Thursday to discuss a possible deal to end Israel's war with Hezbollah in Lebanon, as the death toll mounted on both sides of the border.
Netanyahu told Washington envoys Amos Hochstein and Brett McGurk that any Lebanon deal must guarantee Israel's longer term scrutiny.

While their talks took place, Israeli medics and a local leader reported seven Israelis killed by cross-border fire from Lebanon -- one of the highest one-day tolls in Israel in more than a year of cross-border exchanges that escalated to full-scale war last month.

Israeli strikes hit southern and eastern Lebanon as well as Gaza, where Israel's actions in the territory's north have drawn increasing scrutiny more than a year into its war against Hamas Palestinian militants.

Israel Iran War Live: Strikes hit south Beirut after Israeli evacuation orders: Lebanon news agency

At least 10 strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs at dawn on Friday, Lebanon's official news agency said, after the Israeli army issued evacuation orders for buildings in the area.
AFPTV footage showed explosions followed by clouds of smoke that rang out in the city's suburbs after the Israeli army ordered several buildings in Hezbollah's stronghold to evacuate.

"The raids left massive destruction in the targeted areas, as dozens of buildings were leveled to the ground, in addition to the outbreak of fires," the National News Agency (NNA) said.

Israeli warplanes carried out 10 raids targeting the suburban areas of Ghobeiry and Al-Kafaat, the Sayyed Hadi Highway, the vicinity of the Al-Mujtaba Complex, and the old airport road, it added.

Israel Iran War Live: Four Thai nationals killed near Israel-Lebanon border, says Thai foreign minister

Four Thai nationals were killed and one was injured by rocket fire near the border between Lebanon and Israel, Thai Foreign Minister Maris Sangiampongsa posted on the social media platform X on Friday.

Israel Iran War Live: Another suspected drone launched from Lebanon shot down by air defenses over northern Israel, says IDF

Another suspected drone launched from Lebanon was shot down by air defenses over northern Israel a short while ago, the IDF says.

Sirens had sounded in several towns in the Jezreel Valley amid the incident.

Israel-Iran War Live: Iran preparing to strike on Israel from Iraqi territory within days, Axion reports

Intelligence reports from Israel indicate that Iran may launch an assault on Israeli territory from Iraq within days, potentially prior to the November 5 US presidential election, according to Axios, which cites two unnamed Israeli sources.

The anticipated strike is expected to involve numerous unmanned aerial vehicles and ballistic missiles launched from Iraqi soil, as detailed in the Axios report.

According to the report, Tehran's potential strategy of utilizing pro-Iranian militia groups in Iraq could serve as a means to prevent direct Israeli retaliation against Iranian territory.

Israel-Iran war: Blinken says 'good progress' made toward Lebanon ceasefire deal

Isral-Iran war Live: 1,300 drones have been launched at Israel since start of war, IDF says

According to fresh IDF data, some 1,300 drones have been launched at Israel since the start of the war last year, from all fronts — Lebanon, Gaza, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, and Iran.

The IDF says that 231 of the drones struck Israel, causing causalities and damage in some cases. Drones that exploded in open areas are also counted as having struck Israel.

Israel-Iran War Live: 'Israel has greater freedom of action in Iran today than ever before,' says Netanyahu

Speaking at the end of an IDF combat officers training course at Bahad 1 near Mitzpe Ramon, Israeli prime minister Netanyahu says Israel attacked Iran’s “soft underbelly” in its recent strikes.

“The brash words of the leaders of the regime in Iran cannot cover up the fact that Israel has greater freedom of action in Iran today than ever before. We can reach anywhere in Iran as needed.”

Israel-Iran War Live: Israel's rescue service says a second rocket barrage from Lebanon kills 2, raising death toll in northern Israel to 7

Israel’s rescue service said projectiles fired from Lebanon on Thursday killed two more people in northern Israel, raising death toll there to seven in what's been the deadliest rocket barrage since the Israeli military’s invasion of southern Lebanon.

Magen David Adom, Israel’s main emergency medical organization, said its medics confirmed the deaths of a 30-year-old man and 60-year-old woman in a suburb of the northern city of Haifa. They also treated two other people who suffered mild injuries and were hospitalized.

The Israeli military said that roughly 25 rockets crossed into Israel from Lebanon as part of the volley that struck an olive grove where people had gathered for the harvest.

The deadly attack came just hours after officials in Metula, in northern Israel, said that five people were killed, including four foreign workers, in a rocket barrage Thursday that struck an Israeli agricultural area.

The back-to-back attacks made Thursday one of the deadliest days for civilians in Israel since the Israeli military invaded southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 as part of a widening campaign against the Lebanon-based Hezbollah militant group.

Israel-Iran Israeli finance minister Smotrich, under pressure from US treasury secretary Janet Yellen, will sign a waiver to extend cooperation between Israeli and Palestinian banks for another month after the cabinet agreed, his spokesman said on Thursday.Smotrich in June extended a waiver that allows cooperation between Israel's banking system and Palestinian banks in the West Bank, but only for four months until the end of October.The waiver allows Israeli banks to process shekel payments for services and salaries tied to the Palestinian Authority without the risk of being charged with money laundering and funding terrorism. Without it, Palestinian banks would be cut off from the Israeli financial system.War Live: Israel's Smotrich to sign waiver for Palestinian banks cooperation for one month

Israel-Iran War Live: Any Hezbollah ceasefire must guarantee Israel security, Netanyahu tells US envoys

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told visiting US envoy Amos Hochstein and US Middle East adviser Brett McGurk on Thursday that any ceasefire deal with Lebanon's Hezbollah would have to guarantee Israeli security.

"The prime minister specified that the main issue is not paperwork for this or that deal, but Israel's determination and capacity to ensure the deal's application and to prevent any threat to its security from Lebanon," Netanyahu's office said after the meeting took place in Jerusalem.

Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant met the envoys separately Thursday for a discussion which he said in a statement focused on "security arrangements as these relate to the northern arena and Lebanon, and efforts to ensure the return of 101 hostages still held by Hamas in Gaza".

Israel-Iran War Live: War monitor says 3 killed in Israel strike on Syria weapons depots

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three people were killed Thursday in Israeli strikes on Syria's Qusayr region near the border with Lebanon, where Israel said it hit Hezbollah weapons depots.

The Britain-based war monitor said three strikes targeted the town of Qusayr, where Hezbollah holds sway, and surrounding areas.

One strike targeted "a weapons depot and a fuel storage facility for Hezbollah in the industrial city of Qusayr", killing three and wounding five others, the Observatory said.

The other strikes targeted warehouses near the Lebanese border and a bridge south of Qusayr, according to the war monitor.

The Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said "weapons depots and headquarters used by" Hezbollah were hit in the Qusayr region.

Adraee said the strikes sought to thwart attempts to "transfer weapons from Iran via Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon".

The official SANA news agency reported Israeli strikes on Qusayr's industrial zone and some residential neighbourhoods, saying they caused material damage.

The vast land border between Israel and Syria has increasingly come under attack by Israel since its war with Hezbollah erupted last month.