Published October 4, 2024
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is leading a rare prayer sermon in Tehran to commemorate the death of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah. The last time Khamenei led Friday prayers was nearly five years ago to commemorate the death of Qasem Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, who was killed by the US.
• Israeli strikes in Beirut overnight targeted Hashem Safieddine, a potential successor to late Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, an Israeli official told CNN. It’s unclear if he was killed.
• Israel’s aerial campaign in Lebanon is being conducted at an intensity comparable only to the first weeks of its bombardment in Gaza last year, an air warfare expert told CNN.
• An Israeli airstrike has halted traffic near the main Lebanon-Syria border crossing, a Lebanese official said. Tens of thousands have fled via the checkpoint as 1 million displaced people seek safety from bombardment.
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SOURCE: www.edition.cnn.com
RELATED: Israeli bombs rain down on Lebanon’s Beirut, Gaza, occupied West Bank
Published October 4, 2024
Powerful blasts rocked Beirut overnight in some of the heaviest Israeli strikes on the city so far as the
Lebanese Health Ministry reports 37 killed and 151 wounded in bombing attacks across the country in the past 24 hours.
- At least 18 Palestinians were killed in an Israeli jet fighter attack on the Tulkarem refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
- The head of UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, says at least 21 Palestinians were killed as three UN-run school shelters were attacked by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip over two days.
- Iran has conveyed a message to Washington via Qatar saying that it does not seek regional war but “the phase of unilateral self-restraint has ended”, an Iranian source tells Al Jazeera.
- In Gaza, at least 41,788 people have been killed and 96,794 injured in Israeli attacks since October 2023. In Israel, at least 1,139 people were killed in the Hamas-led attacks on October 7 and more than 200 people were taken captive.
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SOURCE: www.aljazeera.com
