Hezbollah claimed a series of successive operations targeting military bases in the Haifa region, approximately 40 kilometers from the Lebanese border. In a lengthy statement, the group said it attacked the following targets at 7:45 p.m.:
- The Haifa Technical Base, associated with the Israeli Air Force and housing an aviation training center. This base is located east of the city.
- The city's naval base, which Hezbollah claims hosts ships and submarines.
- The Stella Maris Base, attacked for the second time today, described as a "strategic base for maritime surveillance."
- The Tirat Carmel Base includes "transport" units for the Northern Command and a "maritime logistics" center.
- For the first time since Oct. 2023, Hezbollah targeted the Nisher Base, which contains gas infrastructure belonging to the Israeli military and is located southeast of Haifa.
Four people were lightly wounded while making their way to the shelter in Haifa, Magen David Adom reported as cited by Haaretz.
Two hits were reported in Merkaz HaCarmel, a neighborhood in Haifa after the Israeli army said that about 10 rockets were fired from Lebanon into the Haifa area. Electrical wires in the area sustained damage.
The Israeli army, quoted by AFP, announced that a synagogue was hit during a "major barrage of rockets" fired by Hezbollah on the city of Haifa in the northwest, injuring two people.
"This is yet another clear example of how Hezbollah deliberately targets Israeli civilians from southern Lebanon," the army said in a statement. In another statement, it reported "about 10 projectiles" fired at Haifa Bay, some of which were intercepted.
So far, the party has not claimed responsibility for any operations targeting Haifa or its surroundings.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli airstrikes targeted Kfar Joz, Kfar Roummane, Zawtar Gharbieh, Habboush, and Kfar Tebnin in the Nabatieh district.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced it had targeted Israeli soldiers at the "al-Abad" position across from Houla (Marjayoun) using "explosive drones." The group claimed the strike "precisely hit its target."
In the Bekaa, four people were killed — two Lebanese and two Syrians — in a strike on a pickup truck carrying potatoes on a road leading to Nabi Sheet in the Baalbeck region, according to our correspondent.
The northern Israeli city of Haifa was hit twice by projectiles from Lebanon, according to Haaretz. The strikes caused no casualties, according to the Israeli media.
Hezbollah has claimed a new missile strike on Kiryat Shmona, across from Houla (Marjayoun). This marks the 18th operation announced by Hezbollah today.
In southern Lebanon, an Israeli strike once again targeted Khiam (Marjayoun), which is also being hit by sustained artillery fire.
The “very powerful” strike that targeted Haret Hreik earlier in the evening did not hit a building previously threatened by the Israeli army, according to the NNA.
According to the NNA, the latest strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs targeted the Haret Hreik neighborhood.
The situation in southern Lebanon:
Violent clashes are taking place, according to our correspondent, south and southeast of Khiam in the Marjayoun district, between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, which is once again attempting to advance in the area. Khiam is also being hit by Israeli artillery and airstrikes, particularly in Wata al-Khiam and the outskirts of the former prison. Flares are being launched over the town.
A few kilometers further south, Hezbollah said it targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers on the eastern outskirts of Markaba (Marjayoun) with rockets.
Hezbollah has announced that it again targeted Sa'sa with rockets, across from Rmeish (Bint Jbeil).
The Ministry of Health announced that Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon killed seven and injured 65 people on Friday.
Over 3,452 people have been killed in Lebanon and 14,664 have been injured since the beginning of the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel more than 13 months ago, according to the ministry.
The Israeli army's Chief of Staff, Herzl Halevi, said during a visit to the Lebanese village of Kfar Kila (Marjayoun district) that "we'll stop when we know that we're bringing the residents [back] safely," according to Haaretz.
Halevi said that in the army "we see difficulties being expressed," including in letters from the wives of reservists. "We'll try to take better care of the families as well. There are beautiful things that have been done, we will try to do more," he said.
An Israeli strike killed 10 Palestinians and wounded at least 20 others today at a school in Gaza City's Shati refugee camp currently sheltering displaced families, Reuters reported citing medics.
The U.N.-run Abu Assi school, where rescue operations are ongoing, may still have people trapped under the rubble, health officials said.
Palestinian health officials said at least 30 people have been killed by Israeli military strikes across the enclave today, according to Reuters.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has canceled his trip to the United Nation's climate conference in Azerbaijan due to security concerns, according to Haaretz.
The Israeli delegation to the conference is headed by Environmental Protection Minister Idit Silman.
The southern suburbs of Beirut were once again bombed by Israeli aircraft.
The powerful strike heard in Beirut's southern suburbs targeted a street near Maamoura Street in Burj al-Barajneh with two missiles, according to the state-run National News Agency (NNA).
⚡ A very powerful strike targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut. The detonation was heard in and around the capital.
After a fourth wave of Israeli threats, a new strike targeted the Kafaat area in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
At 5:15 p.m., a new strike hit Sour, targeting waterfront buildings near the Palazzo Hotel.
Intense artillery fire also struck Khiam in the Marjayoun district.
Reports of an Israeli airstrike targeting Laqlouq (Byblos district) are false, our correspondent in the North reported. Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier over the area.
The Israeli army has issued an evacuation order to residents of three buildings in Burj al-Barajneh, Haret Hreik and Hadath in Beirut's southern suburbs.
“For your safety and that of your family members, you must evacuate these and adjacent buildings immediately, and move at least 500 meters away from them,” the Israeli army's Arabic spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted on X.
Two additional rounds of strikes hit the al-Hawsh area on the outskirts of Sour, according to our correspondent. This area had been identified in the warnings issued earlier by the Israeli army.
An air raid struck the Qlayleh plain, south of the major city in southern Lebanon, for the third time.
Strikes also targeted Maalieh, Ain Baal, and Majdel Zoun in the Sour district.
According to our correspondent in the Bekaa, six people were killed in Khraybeh, in the Anti-Lebanon region, including four children. Five others were also injured.
At around 4 p.m., the Israeli air force carried out three raids in the city of Sour, following an evacuation order from the Israeli army.
One raid targeted a building on Jerusalem Street, opposite the Al-Chark patisserie, according to our correspondent in the South. The second raid also targeted another building in the same street, in the city center, while the third and the forth hit an area close to “al-Maachouk” zone, at the eastern entrance.
The Israeli air force carried out raids on Ramadieh (Sour district), Tebnin and Hariss (Bint Jbeil district).
🔴 The Israeli army, through its Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee, has issued evacuation warnings to the inhabitants of fifteen whole villages in southern Lebanon.
Such broad warnings, already used several times by the Israeli army against the population of southern Lebanon and many areas of Gaza, are often criticized by human rights organizations and even the U.S. government as tools of forced displacement.
The villages that have been told to evacuate include Kfar Hammam, Kfar Shuba, Burj al-Moulouk, Khiam, Blat, Dibbein, Arnoun, Yohmor, Deir Seriane, Taybeh, Kossaibeh, Kaouthariyet al-Rez, Kfar Tebnin, Homeiri and Matriyet Shumar.
Updates from our correspondents in the Bekaa and southern Lebanon:
- The Israeli army hit an area close to Jabel Amel Hospital, in Abbassieh, Sour district, prompting the hospital's management to invoke security measures in an attempt to protect its medical staff in the face of encroaching Israeli strikes.
- Israeli artillery repeatedly shelled the area around the border village of Khiam, in Marjayoun district, and bombarded Naqoura, in Sour district.
- In the northern Bekaa, five people were injured by an Israeli strike on the village of Khraybeh, east of Baalbeck.
The Israeli army says that, since midnight, 70 rockets have been fired from Lebanon into Israel, Haaretz reports.
Around 3:10 p.m., an Israeli drone fired a missile at a building located nearby to the Shiite High Council in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. The Israeli army released an evacuation warning for this neighborhood as well as Ghobeiri around 45 minutes ago.
Around 3:15 p.m., the Israeli army bombed the Sfeir area near the Hadath neighborhood of Beirut's southern suburbs.
The Israeli army has issued a third set of evacuation warnings for Beirut's southern suburbs, concerning residents of two buildings in Haret Hreik and Ghobeiri neighborhoods.
The warnings, which do not provide a safe routes and are being issued for neighborhoods that have already been bombed since this morning, claim the residents are located near Hezbollah "facilities and interests."
⚡ The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation warnings to residents of fourteen buildings in the southernmost city of Sour, which the army has already been bombing since morning.
The buildings indicated in maps are in the neighborhoods of Bourj al-Shemali, Maashouk and al-Hosh. The accompanying message dictates residents should evacuate the buildings marked on the maps and the buildings adjacent to them "immediately" and move at least 500 meters away. The evacuation warnings do not provide information regards safe routes.
Elsewhere in Sour district today, the Israeli army has bombed the towns of Ramadieh, Shihine, Mansouri and Mazraat Meshref, our correspondent reports. The army has also fired shells of white phosphorous at the village of Jibbein.
The Israeli army, including its ground forces and air force, have struck over 160 targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, the Israeli army spokesperson said, cited by Haaretz.
According to the Israeli army's claims, its targets were rocket launchers that fired rockets toward northern Israel this week, as well as buildings and warehouses used for weapon storage. In the Gaza Strip, forces continue to operate in the areas of Jabalya, Beit Lahia, and Rafah.
The Israeli army has killed at least 35 people in Gaza in the last 24 hours, according to the health ministry there in its latest announcement, which included the death toll for the last 13 months of war: 43,799 people, the majority of whom it says are women and children.
Iran "categorically" denied that its United Nations envoy had met with U.S. billionaire Elon Musk in New York, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported, cited by Reuters.
A Foreign Minister spokesperson "while categorically denying claims made in some American media about a meeting between Elon Musk and Iran's permanent representative to the United Nations in New York, expressed surprise at its wide coverage by the American media," IRNA said.
The New York Times reported on Thursday that Musk, who is an advisor to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran's ambassador to the United Nations on Monday.
Updates from our correspondent in southern Lebanon:
- Four Israeli airstrikes have targeted Khiam, a border village in the Marjayoun district that has seen intense ground fighting between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighter in the last two weeks. This is the wave of airstrikes attacking the village today.
- Israeli warplanes also carried out an airstrike against al-Qussair another village in the Marjayoun district.
Lebanese officials said yesterday that they were reviewing the latest U.S. proposal and had sent a copy to Hezbollah, whose leaders authorized parliament speaker Nabih Berri to negotiate on their behalf, the Washington Post reports.
Berri told the Arabic-language newspaper Asharq Al-Awsat that discussions around the plan’s details were underway. “The work is progressing,” he is quoted as saying.
An adviser to the speaker’s Amal party, who spoke to the Post on the condition of anonymity, said that Lebanon would relay its response to the United States on Saturday [today].
“The general atmosphere is good,” the aide said, adding that most of the text was “acceptable” to Lebanese leaders. The proposal is largely based on U.N. Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended the last war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006. It calls for Hezbollah to withdraw from southern Lebanon where it says only the Lebanese military and U.N. peacekeepers should operate.
⚡ The Israeli army has launched its seventh attack today against Beirut's southern suburbs, bombing Burj al-Barajneh in a heavy strike that sent black smoke billowing up from the site.
⚡ The Israeli army has bombed twice more the southern suburbs of Beirut. The first, around ten minutes ago, was an attack against Bir al-Abed, and the second, just minutes ago, was against the neighborhood of Burj al-Barajneh.
These are the fifth and sixth strikes against the suburbs since this morning and were preceded by two sets of evacuation warnings issued by the Israeli army. These warnings have been criticized by human rights organizations and lawyers as ineffective and inadequate.
An update from our correspondent in southern Lebanon:
- An Israeli raid targeted the village of Mansouri, in Sour district.
- The Israeli raid that targeted a team of al-Rissala scouts, paramedics affiliated with the Amal Movement, on the road leading to the village of Kfar Tebnit, Nabatieh, killed five people, including two first responders, according to our correspondent.
- Israeli warplanes carried out several raids on Sour, including al-Hoch neighborhood, and al-Athar street located near a Lebanese Army barracks.
⚡ The Israeli army has bombed the neighborhood of Chiyah, in the southern suburbs of Beirut, in attack that comes around half an hour after the army issued evacuation warnings. The army has significantly escalated its strikes against this diverse residential area in recent days.
This is the fourth strike on the suburbs since this morning.
Here are the latest developments in southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent:
- A fourth Israeli airstrike today targeted Khiam (Marjeyoun), specifically the Jlalieh neighborhood in the northern part of the village.
- Israeli fighter jets struck a house in Kfar Houna (Jezzine) and the village of Baissarieh (Saida).
In a new statement, Hezbollah claimed to have targeted the Stella Maris naval base — a strategic surveillance and naval control site on the northern coast — with a "barrage of missiles" at 10:55 a.m. The base is located 35 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border, northwest of Haifa.
This attack was carried out as part of Hezbollah's ‘Khaybar’ operations, initiated following the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah by Israel on Sept. 27.
Hezbollah fighters fired a "barrage of rockets" at 11 a.m. at a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the new headquarters of the Western Brigade command in Yaara (facing Yaroun).
Update on the Situation at the Lebanese-Israeli Border:
- An Israeli drone carried out a strike targeting a team of rescuers from the al-Rissala scouts, affiliated with the Amal movement, on the road leading to the village of Kfartebnit, resulting in injuries.
- Israeli fighter jets conducted raids on Chihin, Majdel Zoun, Mansouri, Khiam, and Chaitieh.
- At 10:00 a.m., Hezbollah targeted the Shraga base (administrative headquarters of the Golani Brigade command) north of Acre with a "barrage of rockets."
The Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, issued an evacuation order for residents of three buildings in Ghobeiry, Haret Hreik, and Burj al-Barajneh.
"For your safety and that of your family members, you must evacuate these buildings and adjacent ones immediately and move at least 500 meters away," he wrote on X.
The Israeli army announced this morning that it targeted "terrorist structures" of Hezbollah in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
"In the past hours, Israeli Air Force planes carried out a new wave of strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, targeting several Hezbollah terrorist structures," stated the army's Arabic spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, on X.
"All the targets were deliberately placed by Hezbollah in the heart of residential areas, further evidence of the use of the Lebanese population as human shields," he added.
Israeli warplanes broke the sound barrier twice over Saida and southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent in the region.
Summary of the situation in South Lebanon:
- Bombardments targeting Chebaa (Hasbaya) injured one person, according to our correspondent.
- Rescue workers from the Al-Rissala Scouts, affiliated with the Amal movement, were injured in Arnoun (Nabatieh) during a raid by an Israeli drone.
- Israeli raids targeted the Rihan hill (Jezzine).
Israeli soldiers attempted to infiltrate Lebanese territory via the village of Dhaira and the Tayr Harfa-Jibbein axis, where intense clashes are ongoing, according to the National News Agency (NNA).
According to our correspondent, an Israeli airstrike targeted a house in Halloussieh (Sour) this morning.
This morning, Israeli airstrikes targeted the villages of Abbassieh (Sour), Deir Qanoun el-Nahr (Sour), Sojod (Jezzine), and Arabsalim (Nabatieh) at 7 a.m. in southern Lebanon.
Here's an update on the situation in southern Lebanon from Friday night to Saturday:
- After 9 p.m., Israeli artillery targeted the outskirts of Rachaya el-Foukhar, Hebbarieh, and Nabatieh el-Faouqa.
- After 11 p.m., Israeli airstrikes targeted homes in Adloun, Baraachit, Jmaïjmeh, Adchit, and destroyed others in Abba, Aitaroun, and the outskirts of Hanin and Kaouthariyet el-Sayyad.
- After midnight, Israeli fighter jets targeted the vicinity of Seddiqine twice and carried out an airstrike on Chaitieh.
- At 1 a.m., four Israeli airstrikes targeted a house in Bourj Rahal, destroying three houses. A first responder from the Amal Movement-affiliated al-Rissala Scouts, Tarek Mheich, was killed, and seven others were injured. Two airstrikes targeted Batoulieh but resulted in no casualties. The Israeli military and Hezbollah fighters engaged in combat in Chamaa, Tayr Harfa, and Jibbein.
- At 9:15 PM, Hezbollah targeted Israeli soldiers gathered on the southern outskirts of Hanin (Bint Jbeil) with a drone, hitting its target precisely. At 9:25 p.m., Hezbollah fired a "salvo of rockets" at an Israeli soldier gathering on the southeast outskirts of Markaba (Marjeyoun). At 10 p.m., the group targeted Israeli soldiers south of Maroun el-Ras (Bint Jbeil) with another "salvo of rockets."
- Hezbollah also attacked Israeli positions. At 11:15 p.m., it targeted the headquarters of the 769th Infantry Battalion of the Eastern Brigade at the Ramim barracks (west of Adaisseh) with a "salvo of rockets." At 12:15 a.m., its fighters targeted the same headquarters again.
According to the National News Agency, the first strike on Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut destroyed several buildings, other than the one that the Israeli army had called to evacuate, and caused damage in the area.
Two Israeli airstrikes targeted Lebbaya in the Western Bekaa, according to our correspondent Sarah Abdallah.
Israeli artillery fire targeted the outskirts of Chamaa, Majdel Zoun, Hamoul, as well as the vicinity of Tayr Harfa and Alma el-Chaab in southern Lebanon, according to our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah.
A third violent Israeli strike targeted Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs. Unlike the two previous strikes, this one did not hit the areas that the Israeli army had called to evacuate.
According to images captured by our journalist Mohammad Yassine, plumes of black smoke covered the targeted areas.
Two new airstrikes targeted Haret Hreik in Beirut’s southern suburbs this morning, about an hour after an evacuation order issued by the Israeli military.
"For your safety and that of your family members, you must evacuate these buildings and those adjacent to them immediately and move at least 500 meters away," tweeted Avichay Adraee, the Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli army, on X. As usual, his message included two maps identifying the buildings targeted by Israeli airstrikes. Both buildings are located near the al-Hassanen Mosque.
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