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Two new very strong Israeli strikes have resonated in Beirut and its surroundings. The second bombing hit near the area of Beirut airport, in the Ouzai district, in the southern suburbs of Beirut,
A third explosion was heard in Beirut and its surroundings, caused by a very powerful strike on the Tahwitat al-Ghadir neighborhood in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
A second explosion caused by an Israeli strike resonated in Beirut and its surroundings. According to al-Mayadeen, the strike took place in Haret Hreik.
Israel launched its first strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, targeting the Haret Hreik neighborhood.
According to a source contacted by al-Jadeed, "Beirut airport is still operational, and contacts are underway to prevent any attack on it." A source at Beirut airport that we contacted assures that all flights scheduled by Middle East Airlines for today have departed or arrived and that no other flights are scheduled for the night.
MEA, which is the only airline operating flights to and from Lebanon since the end of September, is therefore continuing its operations despite the current situation.
Residents of the neighborhoods affected by the Israeli army's orders are fleeing in droves, al-Jadeed reports. People are firing gunshots into the air to wake up those who are asleep, in a scene that is has become all-too-familiar in Beirut's southern suburbs. The evacuation orders, deemed inadequate by human rights groups, do not provide a safe route, meaning residents can't know if they are fleeing toward or away from further attacks.
One of the Israeli army's recent evacuation orders targets a building around 163 meters from one of the airport's runways. The building is located in thin residential strip, a neighborhood called Tahwita al-Ghadir, that runs between two of the airport's runways.
🔴 The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation order to the residents of four buildings in the southern suburbs, one of which is located very close to a runway at the Beirut international airport.
The neighborhoods affected are Laylaki, Ouzaï, Haret Hreik and Tahwita al-Ghadir.
Hezbollah's 33rd announcement today claimed a rocket attack on a third group of Israeli soldiers operating east of Maroun al-Ras, in Bint Jbeil district, at 8:50 p.m. Between 8 and 9 p.m. this evening, Hezbollah carried out three such attacks against Israeli troops carrying out ground incursions in this area.
Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara is expected to support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to fire Defense Minister Yoav Gallant in the high court, following a petition that was filed to block Gallant's dismissal, Haaretz reports.
The petition was filed earlier today and the Israeli High Court has ordered Netanyahu, the government, and the attorney general to respond by tomorrow at 12 p.m. local time, according to a Middle East Eye report. The attorney general will reportedly be supporting Netanyahu's case by citing the prime minister's broad legal authority over ministerial appointments and dismissals.
Three new Hezbollah statements, the 30th, 31st and 32nd today, announced a drone attack launched at 10:07 p.m. on the Haifa naval base and two rocket attacks against two groups of Israeli soldiers present east of the southern Lebanese village of Maroun al-Ras, in Bint Jbeil district, at 8 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. According to Hezbollah, this is the first time they have attacked the Haifa naval base, located in the major coastal city's harbor.
Lebanese Civil Defense teams have pulled 30 bodies from under the rubble of an apartment building that was partially destroyed by an Israeli strike in the Chouf district's village of Barja last night, Al Jazeera reports.
The strike, which was not preceded by an evacuation warning, had an earlier death toll of 20. The number of people who were in the building at the time of the bombing is unknown and search efforts are ongoing.
An 18-year-old Israeli from Kfar Masaryk was killed by shrapnel near his home village, in northern Israel, Haaretz reports. Israeli Magen David Adom rescue teams responded to calls that a man had been wounded in the agricultural area around the village. The paramedics declared him dead upon arriving at the scene.
The Haaretz report does not specify whether the shrapnel was from a rocket fired from Lebanon or from an interceptor missile, the shrapnel of which has killed people before.
According to Haaretz's count, 44 civilians have been killed since fighting began between Hezbollah and Israel last October.
Thousands of Israelis are demonstrating tonight in Jerusalem against the dismissal of Yoav Gallant from the position of defense minister and to call for the release of the hostages, Haaretz reports.
Among them is Einav Zangauker, the mother of a hostage named Matan Zangauker. She set up a tent in front of the prime minister's home and encouraged other hostages' families to do the same.
"I call on you to join me and the members of the families. Come with tents, and together we will make it clear to Netanyahu that we will not let go of him until there is a deal," she said.
The father of a man still captive in Gaza, cited by Al Jazeera, said Gallant's firing will only slow down a hostage deal further. “We just got another obstacle, the sacking of Gallant,” said Yehuda Cohen.
⚡ In its 29th statement of the day, Hezbollah announced that at 6 p.m., it launched a squadron of drones on the Belo base, "belonging to the reserve paratrooper brigade of the 98th Division" of the Israeli army, south of Tel Aviv. The party claims to have targeted this site "for the first time."
In southern Lebanon, Israeli jets bombed the towns of Joumajieh, Zebkine, Kherbet Selm and Beit Yahoun, all in the Bint Jbeil district. Shebaa, in the Hasbaya district, was also targeted by two raids.
In its 27th and 28th statements of the day, Hezbollah announced having fired rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town close to the border around 5:30 p.m. and, around the same time, firing rockets at a deployment of Israeli soldiers opposite the Lebanese village of Markaba, in Marjayoun district.
⚡ The Lebanese-born adviser to Donald Trump, Massaad Boulos told al-Jadeed that the president-elect "is committed to ending the war before he enters the White House." Trump is expected to take his position as president in two months' time.
Boulos, a billionaire businessman whose son is married to Trump's daughter, noted that the Democrats had failed to convince Israel to agree to a cease-fire before Tuesday's vote. He said that Trump would take on "the tasks [linked to the process] of negotiating with the Lebanese side in order to reach an agreement" and that the new president intended to appoint "a person who knows the Israeli dossier well to negotiate with the Israelis."
Boulos also told al-Jadeed that Trump intended to "prepare a nuclear agreement with Iran." During his first term in office, from 2016-2024, Trump withdrew the United States from the previous Iran nuclear deal concluded in 2015 by his Democratic predecessor, Barack Obama.
The Amal Movement has announced that the funerals of 16 people killed in an Israeli strike in Barja, in the Chouf district, will take place in Rawdat al-Zahra, in Sour district, on Thursday at 10 a.m. Their remains will then be buried in Ain Baal, in the same district. The official toll from this Israeli strike is 20 killed and 14 injured.
Hezbollah has published a video in which it claims to have targeted the Israeli base of Tzrifin, south of Tel Aviv, around noon today, with short-range Iranian Fateh-110 ballistic missiles. The roughly one-minute-long video is mainly a montage of images of the various phases of the missile's launch and impact, combining footage supplied by the party and others broadcast in Israel.
👉 Read more about Hezbollah's arsenal in this article by Malek Jadah.
The Israeli air force carried out 33 air raids in the Bekaa today, killing 55 people and injuring 59 others, according to a provisional toll cited by our correspondent in the region. This number includes the 30 people killed in the Baalbeck-Hermel district, announced earlier this evening. The air strike outside Sayyeda Khaoula's mausoleum in the town of Baalbeck killed two members of the Hassan family, Hassan Abbas Hassan and Ali Mohammed Hassan.
The Israeli army claims, through its spokesperson Avichay Adraee, that its bombings of Beirut's southern suburbs this evening were against "Hezbollah targets," including "headquarters, weapons depots, and other military structures."
The map published alongside the statement, on Adraee's X account, shows the six points mentioned earlier in the evacuation orders he issued this afternoon. According to reports in local media and the sounds heard throughout the capital, the Israeli army carried out at least eight strikes, all of them relatively powerful. The exact number of strikes is yet to be confirmed.
The Israeli army has killed more than 2,600 people in Lebanon, the majority of them civilians, since the intense escalation of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah on Sept. 23, Health Minister Firas Abiad told AFP.
Israel launched a massive bombing campaign against Lebanon on Sept. 23, hitting more than 800 sites in one day, in a wave of attacks that analysts say was the most intense in the last year of fighting, only matched by those carried out against the besieged Gaza Strip.
This brings to 3,000 the total number of deaths in Lebanon since the start of the conflict in October 2023, Abiad said.
The municipality of Mais al-Jabal is calling on Lebanese authorities and international organizations for help in the face of Israeli threats against its hospital. The Marjayoun district village, located along the southern border with Israel, has suffered widespread destruction from Israeli bombings in the last month of war.
According to a statement from the municipality, reports have been circulating that the Israeli army has rigged the government hospital with explosives, with the intention to completely destroy the facility.
Appealing to authorities nationally and internationally, including the World Health Organization, Mais al-Jabal has asked for actors to "intervene quickly" and "make the necessary contacts to protect the hospital in this locality from the brutal aggression of the Israeli army."
The Israeli army has withdrawn the 252nd Reserve Division from central Gaza after three months of a ground invasion into the Netzarim Corridor area, Times of Israel reports. The 99th Division has taken over military operations in the corridor.
According to the army, the 252nd Division killed hundreds of Palestinian fighters and destroyed over 10 kilometers of tunnels. The army has expanded the corridor, which isolates northern Gaza from the rest of the besieged Strip, stretching it to the outskirts of Gaza City's Zeitoun neighborhood to the north and the Wadi Gaza river to the south.
⚡The Israeli air force has once again bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to local residents and media. The strike, which hit around 10 minutes ago, targeted the Haret Hreik neighborhood.
Israeli jets are currently bombing the city of Baalbeck, in particular an old building located between the Shiite sanctuary of Sayeda Khaoula and the Palmyra Hotel, just opposite the Roman temples, which are a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
👉 Read more here about concerns archeologists have about Israel's bombing campaign with regards to the preservation of the world's largest remaining Roman temples.
Strikes also targeted the towns of Makné and Younin, to the north of Baalbeck. According to our correspondent in the Bekaa, there are casualties as a result of the strikes and extensive damage was reported in the citadel car park.
⚡ Another Israeli airstrike has targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut. The blast was heard in the capital and the surrounding areas. The Israeli army issued six evacuation orders this afternoon, and this latest attack marks at least six strikes, one of which hit an area not listed in the evacuation order maps, according to local media.
Here is an update from our correspondents in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa:
• In Sour district, Israeli strikes targeted the Rihane neighborhood on the outskirts of the towns of Qasmieh and Burj Rahhal and Shabriha, north of Sour, and the Qadmous neighborhood on the outskirts of Abbasseh.
• Israeli jets also targeted a house in the village of Sarafand to the south of Saïda. Emergency services have been dispatched.
• In the Bekaa, particularly in Baalbeck district, the Israeli air force bombed the towns of Khodr, Assayreh, the Nabi Sheet valley, the outskirts of Brital, the outskirts of Baalbeck, the town of Nassirieh to the east of Baalbeck, and Sarhine.
The governor of Baalbek-Hermel, Bachir Khodr, posted on his X account that a "missile fell in the car park" of the Baalbek temple, one of the largest and best-preserved Roman temples in the world. "It has not yet been possible to inspect the interior of the temple to check whether there is any damage inside," he added. He also reports "significant damage" in the historic district of Manchieh.
⚡ New Israeli strike caught on live coverage from local television stations, hitting Laylaki neighborhood, in an area very close to the Beirut international airport. Apart from weaker strikes launched as a warning, all the strikes were powerful.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for six rocket attacks between 3:15 p.m. and 4 p.m. on the towns of Kfar Szold in the Galilee enclave, Roch Pina in the Upper Galilee, Goren (opposite the Lebanese village of Yarine), Bar Yohan near Mount Meron, Katzrin, a village in the Israeli-occupied Syrian Golan Heights, and Meron in the Upper Galilee.
⚡A new fourth Israeli strike has targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut. The first three strikes all his the neighborhood of Haret Hreik. The location of this fourth attack is not yet known. Six evacuation orders were published around 3 p.m. this afternoon, at least one of the last four strikes hit an area not listed on the evacuation orders, according to al-Jadeed, which has a livestream of southern Beirut running on it's channel.
Another strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut was seen on al-Jadeed's livestream shortly before 5 p.m. This is the third strike, counting the first, a weaker one, which the channel believes was launched as a warning.
Al-Jadeed also reports that this third strike targeted an area that was not listed in the evacuation orders published by Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraee on his X account. The first two strikes targeted Haret Hreik, the third hit the "American Street."
Around twenty Israeli air raids on the Baalbeck-Hermel governorate today killed 30 people and injured 35 others, according to the latest figures gathered by our correspondent in the Bekaa.
⚡ Around an hour after the first evacuation warnings issued by the Israeli army, a first strike hit the southern suburbs of Beirut. According to al-Mayadeen, the strike targeted the neighborhood of Haret Hreik.
Israeli strikes on al-Ain near Baalbeck, in northern Bekaa, killed eight members of the same family, according to our correspondent.
The victims are Hayat Saleh Nasreddine, Zeinab Jamil Nasreddine, Zahra Hammoud Nasreddine, Hassan Ali Nasreddine, Ali Khodr Nasreddine, Mohammed Khodr Nasreddine, Fatmé Khodr Nasreddine and Hamida Khodr Nasreddine.
Israeli aircraft are currently bombing the Shiqan district of Baalbeck, in the Bekaa, and the village of Tibnin (Bint-Jbeil district), in southern Lebanon, while artillery is striking the localities of Kounin, Ainata (Bint Jbeil district) and Majdal Selm (Marjayoun district).
Earlier air strikes on the northern Lebanese town of Hermel killed five people.
Naim Qassem on the abduction of Imad Amhaz by Israel in Batroun during his speech earlier:
"For the Israelis to enter in this manner is a humiliation for Lebanon and raises serious questions. The army should release a statement to clarify the circumstances and ask UNIFIL, especially the Germans, what they observed that night."
⚡ Naim Qassem ended his speech with the words, “Victory is ours, and we are ready for a long war and will stand tall. We shall overcome.”
Naim Qassem:
"Despite its strength, the resistance has faced setbacks, lacking the same resources as the enemy, which is expected. Yet, its power lies in endurance and determination. We have no choice but to preserve our dignity and strive for victory. The heavy price we and the people pay is necessary to achieve victory and is less costly than surrender. This strength can only lead to victory, and we will remain on the ground until we defeat the enemy."
🔴 Naim Qassem:
"Netanyahu cannot achieve victory because he relies solely on his massacres and criminality, without even the support of his own people, while we draw our faith from God. When the enemy decides to halt its aggression, we will establish an indirect negotiation process through Nabih Berri. These negotiations will be based on two conditions: an end to hostilities and respect for Lebanese sovereignty."
Naim Qassem:
"So far, the enemy has failed to achieve any success — neither at the borders, through its massacres, nor by turning our public against us, or by attempting to sow discord between the displaced and the communities that host them."
Update on the situation in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa, reported by correspondents:
Israeli airstrikes targeted the town of Taraya, west of Baalbeck, and then bombed Baalbeck's Al-Nasr market square.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes hit the town of Zawtar al-Sharqieh in the Nabatieh district, while artillery fire targeted the outskirts of Deir Serian in Marjayoun and Yohmor Shqeif in Nabatieh.
🔴 Naim Qassem:
"The outcome of the U.S. presidential election, whether Harris or Trump wins, does not affect our positions. We pay no attention to this election, nor to Netanyahu’s potential shift in objectives; we are waiting for him to recognize his failure."
Qassem:
As for striking back at Israel, there will always be more missiles and drones, and no place is inaccessible to us. We won't be looking for a cease-fire; it's the enemy who will be begging for a halt to the fighting.
Qassem:
We have tens of thousands of well-trained fighters who can stand up to the enemy, take over from those on the borders, and have the necessary resources over time. Don't worry about our capabilities: we have them.
Qassem: We're convinced that only one factor can put an end to this war, and that's on the ground, whether it's at the borders on the ground or through the missiles we're sending inside Israel.
Naim Qassem :
What are the Israeli factors of strength? Savagery and the massacre of innocents, supremacy in the air and in technology, with the infinite support of the United States, the Great Satan, and finally its battalions on the borders.
The Israelis benefit from aviation, it's true, but they don't benefit from their massacres or their soldiers, who can't advance. That's the truth because the level of confrontation is making them no longer want to enter deep into (Lebanese) territory.
🔴 Naim Qassem:
Since the 2006 war, we've been preparing in all areas because we foresaw this war one day or another. We are now in a defensive phase against the enemy's expansionist intentions.
The enemy thought it would achieve its primary objectives with pagers and assassinations, so it prepared its army to be ready to enter Lebanon.
Naim Qassem:
It no longer matters how the war started or what caused it. It's a war against Lebanon, and Netanyahu says he doesn't set a deadline for this war, and talks about a goal of changing the Middle East, a goal bigger than Lebanon and Palestine.
He wants to finish off Hezbollah, then invade Lebanon and work to change the map of the Middle East.
Naim Qassem:
“We've been in an Israeli war and aggression against Lebanon for about a month and 10 days, following the support front which was totally different and aimed to support Palestine.”
As Naim Qassem began his speech, an evacuation notice was issued to residents of the Haret Hreik and Laylaki districts of Beirut's southern suburbs by the Israeli army's Arabic-speaking spokesman Avichay Adraee, identifying three targeted buildings. This was followed by another to the residents of Burj al-Barajneh, where three buildings were identified.
Naim Qassem:
Our leader (Hassan) Nasrallah built a party of resistance that brings together all categories of society, a party of institutions with an organized structure in all areas. He will remain alive in us, and the resistance will remain and develop.
“On the fortieth day after the assassination of (Hassan) Nasrallah, let us remember that victory is always for the most faithful, through victory on the ground or martyrdom,” said Naim Qassem, to begin his second speech since his appointment as Hezbollah Secretary-General.
⚡ Traffic at Ben Gurion Airport, Israel's main airport, was unaffected by the missile fire claimed by Hezbollah, a spokeswoman for the Israel Airports Authority told AFP.
The airport “is open and functioning normally for take-offs and landings,” said Liza Dvir, adding that there had been no damage to the runways, after Hezbollah claimed to have targeted a military base near the airport, located south of Tel Aviv.
* In the Bekaa, Israeli strikes targeted Douris and Saaydeh, with hits reported around Dalil, near Boudai.
* The previous attack on Meshemsheh, near Shaath in Baalbeck, specifically targeted the home of Ismail Assaad Rabah, killing six people and causing multiple injuries. Rescue operations continue.
* The city of Hermel has faced repeated attacks, with strikes on Beit Msheik and Ras al-Ain near Baalbeck.
* The earlier attack on Temnin killed three people.
Here are the latest developments from southern Lebanon, as reported by our correspondents:
* An Israeli attack targeted the industrial area of Kfar Roummane in the Nabatieh district. Nabatieh's Zahrani and Bayad neighborhoods were also hit.
* Israeli airstrikes destroyed a mosque in Mahrouneh, in the Sour district.
* Mayfadoun in Nabatieh and Khiam in Marjayoun were also struck.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas expressed confidence that Trump would support the Palestinians' “legitimate aspirations,” AFP reported.
The latest developments in the Bekaa according to our correspondent:
* An Israeli attack has targeted the outskirts of Kfardan.
* The final toll from the Israeli attack on al-Ain, near Baalbeck, is eight killed and one wounded.
* The area around Meshemsheh, in the northern Bekaa, was hit.
An Israeli attack targeted Temnin in the Bekaa Valley, leaving two people injured, reports our correspondent.
⚡ Hezbollah claims responsibility for an attack at 12 p.m. on the Tzrifin base, "which includes military training sites" near Ben Gurion Airport south of Tel Aviv, using a salvo of "high-quality" missiles.
The party specifies that this attack is part of its "Khaybar" operation series, launched after the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27.
Israeli airstrikes are targeting neighborhoods in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon, including the western entrance of the city, according to our correspondent. These strikes come shortly after an evacuation notice was issued by the Israeli army.
The death toll from the Israeli strike on the town of al-Ain, north of Baalbek in the Bekaa, has risen to seven killed, according to a source from the Civil Defense, as reported by our journalist. A family that was present in the targeted home was killed.
King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, the de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia, congratulated Donald Trump on "his victory in the U.S. presidential election," the Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported, citing AFP.
The Saudi leaders sent congratulatory messages to Donald Trump, who had cultivated warm relations with the powerful Gulf monarchy during his first term. King Salman praised the "close relations between the two countries and their friendly peoples," according to the same source.
Here are the latest developments in Bekaa and southern Lebanon, according to our correspondents:
Just before 1 p.m., an Israeli airstrike targeted the village of Bednayel, near Baalbeck.
At the same time, Israeli aircraft struck the village of Kfar Shuba in the Hasbaya district, cutting off the road linking Kfar Shuba to Kfar Hamam, which had been reopened by UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) a few days earlier after a previous strike.
Shortly after 1 p.m., another Israeli strike targeted the vicinity of Hallanieh, near Baalbeck.
The toll from the Israeli strike on the town of al-Ain, north of Baalbeck in the Bekaa, has risen to six killed, according to our correspondent.
With a second Trump presidency on the horizon, the Middle East braces for potential shifts in U.S. policy across Gaza, Lebanon, and beyond.
Noura Doukhi and Tatiana Krotoff examine what to expect during both the 11-week transition period and once Trump officially takes office in January.
Former Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri congratulated former President Donald Trump on his reelection in the United States, calling it a "well-deserved" victory. On his X account, Hariri added, “I hope it paves the way for new and better opportunities for the United States, the world, and my country.”
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a 10:45 a.m. attack on “a dwelling where enemy soldiers had gathered” in Metula, northern Israel, using a guided missile. The party stated that the strike caused deaths and injuries among Israeli troops.
Hezbollah also claimed a 10:15 a.m. attack on “the Israeli base of Rawia, headquarters of the armored battalion of the 188th Brigade,” in the occupied Syrian Golan, using a missile barrage.
An Israeli airstrike targeted Kfar Shuba in the Hasbaya district of southern Lebanon, and artillery is hitting neighborhoods in Khiam (Marjayoun), according to our correspondent in the area.
Hezbollah claimed its first attack of the day, conducted at 9:15 a.m. on Sasa, an Israeli village about 12 km northwest of Safed, using a missile barrage.
The deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, Ali Fadavi, said Tehran is “ready to confront Israel and does not rule out a preemptive strike from the U.S. and Israel,” Reuters reported, citing Iran's ISNA news agency, following Donald Trump's claim of victory in the U.S. presidential election.
Hezbollah claimed another attack at 9 a.m. on Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, also involving a missile barrage. The party stated that this attack was “part of the warning issued by the resistance to many settlements in northern Israel.”
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack at 11 a.m. on Kfar Szold in Galilee, with a barrage of missiles.
🔴 A barrage of 10 rockets fired from Lebanon targeted Tel Aviv, central, and northern Israel, according to the Israeli army, as reported by Haaretz.
The newspaper also noted that rockets landed near Ben Gurion International Airport outside Tel Aviv and in Ra'anana, a nearby town. Warning sirens sounded in northern Israel.
Qatar congratulated Donald Trump and said they would work together for the “security and stability” of the region, reports AFP.
In response to the U.S. election, Israeli President Isaac Herzog wants to “strengthen the ironclad bond” between Israel and the United States, reports AFP.
⚡ Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem will speak at 3 p.m. today, Hezbollah reported.
This will be his second speech as the party's secretary-general.
Photo provided by our correspondent Sarah Abdallah.
The Israeli strike on al-Ain, north of Baalbeck in the Bekaa, killed three people, reports our correspondent.
A Hamas official told AFP that U.S. “blind support” for Israel must “come to an end,” after more than a year of war in Gaza.
“This blind support for the Zionist entity must come to an end, as it comes at the expense of the future of our people and the security and stability of the region,” said Bassem Naim, a member of the political bureau of Hamas.
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, stated on X that the army has killed Hussein Abdel Halim Harb, "a Hezbollah battalion commander in the Khiam region, responsible for carrying out and launching numerous operations toward towns in the Galilee, particularly Metula."
The Amal Movement announced the deaths of two of its fighters, Badr Hussein Abou Raya and Ali Fahd Zbib, who were killed Monday in an Israeli strike on the village of Teffahta.
Iran's government spokesman says the U.S. elections “are really none of our business” and “will have no impact on citizens' livelihoods,” reports Iran's Revolutionary Guards-affiliated Tasnim agency.
An Israeli raid targeted the village of al-Ain in the Bekaa, according to our correspondent.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu congratulated Donald Trump on what he called a "historic return" to the White House, Reuters reports.
"Your historic return to the White House offers a new beginning for America and a powerful recommitment to the great alliance between Israel and America," Netanyahu said on X after Trump claimed victory in the U.S. presidential election.
In the Bekaa Valley, an Israeli blimp was spotted for the first time since the start of the war, flying over the Bekaa plain and heading east. An Israeli drone was also seen over the area at the same time.
The Israeli army issued an evacuation notice shortly before 10 a.m. for residents of four buildings in Nabatieh, South Lebanon.
"You are near Hezbollah facilities and interests that the Israeli army will soon attack," warned the army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, on X. "For your safety and that of your family members, you must immediately evacuate these buildings and move at least 500 meters away from them," he added.
The situation in southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent:
- The Sahl al-Mari area in the Hasbaya district was shelled by the Israeli army.
- Artillery fire targeted Alma al-Shaab (Sour).
- An Israeli airstrike was carried out in an area between Aitit and Wadi Jeelo (Sour). Israeli planes and drones flew over Sour and its surroundings.
- Two strikes hit Jwayya (Sour), with no reported casualties.
- A strike targeted Kfar Sir (Nabatieh).
- Israeli fighter jets struck Seddiqine (Sour).
- A drone conducted two strikes on a house in Khiam (Marjayoun).
The Lebanese Army has announced that one of its units will “detonate ammunition” that had not previously exploded in Ghobeiri, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, today between 10:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m.
Here are the developments in southern Lebanon this morning:
The village of Tire, in the district of Bint Jbeil, was struck at 7 a.m. and shortly after 9 a.m.
At 6 a.m., Israeli airstrikes targeted a building used for drinking water supply in the village of Bablieh, south of Saida. Another raid hit a house in the village of Baissarieh, also south of Saida.
At 7 a.m., Israeli aircraft targeted a building in the village of Deir Qanoun al-Nahr, northeast of Sour, completely destroying it along with parked cars in the area.
At 8 a.m., an Israeli raid struck a house in the village of Jibsheet in the Nabatieh district.
The death toll from an Israeli strike the previous day in the village of Shehabieh (Sour district) has now reached five killed. Another strike in Borgholieh, in the same district, killed three people.
Here are the developments in southern Lebanon overnight:
After 10 p.m., Israeli airstrikes hit the village of Khiam in the Marjayoun district with two missiles, causing a powerful explosion that echoed throughout southern Lebanon.
Overnight, raids were reported in Tibnin; in the villages of Beit Yahoun and Kounin in the district of Bint Jbeil; and around Yohmor, Shekif, and Arnoun in the district of Nabatieh. A strike targeted the home of Hajj Jawad Asseili between Shehabieh and Mjadel in the Sour district.
The town of Bint Jbeil was hit by two Israeli strikes around midnight, along with Ainata, Kounin, Hanin, and Tire in the Bint Jbeil district.
The official death toll from the Israeli strike on an apartment in Barja, in the Chouf district, has risen to 20 killed and 14 injured, according to the Health Ministry. Some residents cited by our correspondent report the death toll may be as high as 25.
Debris-clearing operations continued until dawn. Most of those killed in the strike were displaced people from Ain Baal and Tayr Debba, two villages in the Sour district, and from Harouf in the Nabatieh district.
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