Skip next section IDF says 10 Hezbollah targets hit
07/30/2024July 30, 2024
IDF says 10 Hezbollah targets hit
The Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck around 10 targets in seven different areas of southern Lebanon.
The IDF also said it “eliminated” a member of the group in the southern village of Bayt Lif. The military struck a Hezbollah weapons storage facility, infrastructure sites, military structures and a launcher in southern the IDF said.
Border confrontations between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah have been occurring almost daily since the Hamas October 7 attacks on southern Israel prompted the ongoing war in Gaza.
Recently, however, of the conflict. This weekend, 12 teenagers and children were killed in a strike on the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, which Israel blamed on Hezbollah. The group denied responsibility, but Israel has
Some 1,200 were killed in Israel during the Hamas October 7 attacks, with the militant group taking around 250 hostages back to Gaza. Around 115 hostages are still there, though Israel says a third of them are believed to be dead.
Meanwhile, over 39,300 Palestinians have been killed so far in the fighting, health authorities in the Hamas-run strip say.
Both Hamas and by several countries.
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07/30/2024July 30, 2024
Monitor says Israel strikes Syria air defense bases
has struck two military bases in the outskirts of Deraa, a UK-based monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported no casualties in the overnight strikes.
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Skip next section US says Israel-Hezbollah confrontation not inevitable
07/30/2024July 30, 2024
US says Israel-Hezbollah confrontation not inevitable
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin does not believe that a confrontation between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah was inevitable, though he was still concerned.
Speaking during a joint press conference in Manila, the Philippines, following security talks with Philippine counterparts alongside US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Austin said he wished to see things “resolved in a diplomatic fashion.”
“While we’ve seen a lot of activity on Israel’s northern border, we remain concerned about the potential of this escalating into a full-blown fight. And I don’t believe that a fight is inevitable,” Austin said.
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