Middle East war: Hamas official killed in Israeli strike on refugee camp in Tripoli
According to a security source a leader in of al-Qassam brigades was killed in the strike in Tripoli.
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An Israeli strike hit a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli on Saturday.
Hamas says an official from the al-Qassam Brigades, Saeed Atallah Ali, and his family were killed in the strike.
An Israeli air strike has cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road.
An Israeli strike hit Lebanon's northern city of Tripoli for the first time early on Saturday, after more bombardment hit Beirut's suburbs and Israeli troops sought to make new ground incursions into southern Lebanon.
A Lebanese security source told Reuters a Hamas official, his wife and two children were killed in the strike on the Beddawi refugee camp in Tripoli.
Hamas-affiliated media said the strike killed Saeed Atallah Ali, a leader of the group's armed wing, the al-Qassam brigades.
The Israeli military did not immediately comment on the strike on Tripoli, a Sunni-majority port city.
Iran defiant, Israel weighs options
Israel has been weighing options in its response to Iran's ballistic missile attack on Tuesday.
Oil prices have risen on the possibility of an attack on Iran's oil facilities as Israel pursues its goals of pushing back Hezbollah militants in Lebanon and eliminating their Hamas allies, also backed by Tehran, in Gaza.
US President Joe Biden on Friday urged Israel to consider alternatives to striking Iranian oil fields, adding that he thinks Israel has not yet concluded how to respond to Iran.
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a rare appearance leading Friday prayers, told a huge crowd in Tehran that Iran and its regional allies would not back down.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi landed in Syria on Saturday for talks after a visit to Lebanon, in which he reiterated support for Lebanon and Hezbollah.
Israel accused of targeting Lebanese civilians
The Lebanese government has accused Israel of targeting civilians, pointing to dozens of women and children killed. It has not broken its total death toll down between civilians and Hezbollah fighters.
Israel says it targets military capabilities and takes steps to mitigate the risk of harm to civilians. It accuses Hezbollah and Hamas of hiding among civilians, which they deny.
Israel, which began ground operations targeting southern Lebanon this week, says they are focused on villages near the border and has said Beirut "was not on the table", but has not specified how long the ground incursion would last.
It says the operations aim to allow tens of thousands of its citizens to return home after Hezbollah bombardments, which began on October 8, 2023, forced them to evacuate from its north.
Israeli air strike cuts major highway linking Lebanon with Syria
An Israeli air strike has cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, leaving two huge craters on either side of the road.
The air strike on Friday, local time, rendered the road unusable for cars, leaving people to continue on foot to the Masnaa Border Crossing. This is where tens of thousands fleeing the conflict in Lebanon have crossed into Syria in the past two weeks.
Israel this week began a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group while also conducting strikes in Gaza.
Earlier this week, Israel launched a ground incursion into Lebanon against the Hezbollah militant group, while also conducting strikes in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli military has said nine soldiers have been killed in the fighting in southern Lebanon.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since Hamas's cross-border terrorist attack into southern Israel on October 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, and in the ensuing conflict, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, with just over half the dead women and children, according to local health officials.
Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most of them since September 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Blasts in southern Beirut
Israel carried out another series of punishing air strikes on Friday, hitting suburban Beirut and cutting off the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria for tens of thousands of people fleeing the Israeli bombardment of the Hezbollah militant group.
The overnight blasts in Beirut's southern suburbs sent huge plumes of smoke and flames into the night sky and shook buildings kilometres away in the Lebanese capital.
Additional strikes sent people running for cover in streets littered with rubble in the Dahiyeh neighbourhood, where at least one building was levelled, and cars were left burned out.
The Israeli military said it targeted Hezbollah's central intelligence headquarters around midnight. It did not say who it was aiming for or if any militants were killed in that strike, but it claimed to have killed 100 Hezbollah fighters in the last 24 hours.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported more than 10 consecutive air strikes in the area.
Hospital shelled
Flames rise from Israeli air strikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut on Friday.
Some 1,400 Lebanese, including Hezbollah fighters and civilians, have been killed and some 1.2 million driven from their homes since Israel escalated its strikes in late September aiming to cripple Hezbollah and push it away from the countries' shared border.
A hospital in southern Lebanon said it was shelled on Friday evening after being warned to evacuate.
The Salah Ghandour Hospital in the city of Bint Jbeil said in a statement that the shelling "resulted in nine members of the medical and nursing staff being injured, most of them seriously," while most of the medical staff were evacuated.
A day earlier, the World Health Organization said 28 health workers in Lebanon had been killed in the past 24 hours.
Hezbollah launches 100 rockets, IDF says
Hezbollah launched about 100 rockets into Israel on Friday, the Israel military said.
The Israeli military also said that a strike in Beirut the day before killed Mohammed Rashid Skafi, the head of Hezbollah's communications division.
The military said in a statement that Skafi was "a senior Hezbollah terrorist who was responsible for the communications unit since 2000" and was "closely affiliated" with high-up Hezbollah officials.
An Israeli Apache helicopter fires a missile towards southern Lebanon.
Thursday's strike along the Lebanon-Syria border, about 50 kilometres east of Beirut, led to the closure of the road near the busy Masnaa Border Crossing — the first time it has been cut off since Hezbollah and Israel began trading fire almost a year ago.
Israel said it targeted the crossing because it was being used by Hezbollah to transport military equipment across the border. It said fighter jets had struck a tunnel used to smuggle weapons from Iran and other proxies into Lebanon.
Hezbollah is believed to have received much of its weaponry through Syria from Iran, its main backer.
Crossing closed
People carry their luggage as they cross on foot into Syria past a crater caused by an Israeli air strike between the Lebanese and the Syrian checkpoints.
Associated Press video footage showed two huge craters on each side of the road. People got out of cars, unable to pass, carrying bags of their possessions as they crossed on foot. More than 250,000 Syrians and 82,000 Lebanese have fled across the border into Syria during the escalation of the past two weeks.
There are a half-dozen crossings between the two countries, and most remain open.
Israel launched its ground escalation in Lebanon on Tuesday, and its forces have been clashing with Hezbollah militants in a narrow strip along the border.
Israel has vowed to put an end to Hezbollah attacks into northern Israel, after nearly a year of exchanges between the two sides that drove tens of thousands of people from their homes on both sides of the border.
Israeli strikes over the past two weeks killed some of Hezbollah's key members, including longtime leader Hassan Nasrallah.
On Thursday, Israel warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon, including areas beyond the buffer zone declared by the United Nations after Israel and Hezbollah fought a month-long war in 2006.
Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani told reporters on Friday that the ground operations were limited, aimed at rooting out Hezbollah militants and making the border safe for northern residents of Israel to return to their homes,
"First of all, our mission is to make sure they're (Hezbollah) not there," Lieutenant Colonel Shoshani said.
"Afterwards we will talk about how we make sure they don't come back."
Residents run for cover following an Israeli air strike in Dahiyeh.
Nine Israeli troops have been killed in close fighting in the area, which is saturated with arms and explosives, the military said.
Two more soldiers were killed and two were severely wounded by a drone attack in northern Israel, military officials said.
An umbrella group of Iranian-backed militias in Iraq, calling itself the Islamic Resistance in Iraq, said it carried out three drone strikes on Friday in northern Israel.
In recent months, the group has regularly claimed drone strikes launched at Israel, but the strikes have rarely landed.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who was in Beirut on Friday to meet Lebanese officials, warned that if Israel carries out an attack on Iran, Tehran would retaliate more powerfully than it did this week when it launched at least 180 missiles into Israel in retaliation for Israeli strikes on Hezbollah.
The missile barrage amid a series of rapidly escalating attacks has threatened to push the Middle East closer to a region-wide war.
"If the Israeli entity takes any step or measure against us, our retaliation will be stronger than the previous one," Mr Araghchi said after meeting Lebanon's parliament speaker, Nabih Berri.
In the Iranian capital, Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led Friday prayers and delivered a speech in which he praised the country's missile strikes on Israel and said Iran was prepared to conduct more strikes if needed.
He spoke to thousands of people at Tehran's main prayer site, the Mosalla mosque, which was decorated with a huge Palestinian flag.
Deadly strikes in West Bank
Israel carried out its deadliest strike in the occupied West Bank since the Gaza war began, hitting a cafe in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
At least 18 Palestinians were killed, the Palestinian Health Ministry said. Relatives said a family of four, including two children, were among the dead.
The Israeli military said several Hamas militants were killed, including the group's leader in the camp.
The Israeli military said on Friday that militants in Gaza fired two rockets into Israeli territory, the first time Israel has seen rocket fire from the territory in a month.
The military said one of the rockets was intercepted by Israel's Iron Dome missile-defence system and the other fell in an open area near a kibbutz across the border from Gaza.
AP
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