Forte en apparence de ses massacres "préalables" de résistants et de simples civils, l'entité sioniste espérait avoir affaibli le Liban au point de n'en faire qu'un bouchée, mais elle a connu ses premiers morts dès son arrivée sur le terrain, à la frontière, nettement plus difficile à faire reculer que par les airs, où sa supériorité technologique relative lui permet de bombarder en profondeur, et elle n'hésite pas à le faire, y compris sur les quartiers populaires de Beyrouth qu'elle juge potentiellement "rebelles", n'y épargnant donc aucunement les civils, femmes et enfants compris.
En dehors de Beyrouth, des bombardements particulièrement violents ont été nécessaire à l'entité sioniste pour détruire une portion de route essentielle au passage frontière entre le Liban et la Syrie, par où, ces derniers jours, des dizaines de milliers de réfugiés, libanais et syriens déjà réfugiés au Liban ont tenté de fuir cette nouvelle guerre.
Comme précédemment, la plupart de nos sources sont donc "anglophones", par la force des choses, c'est à dire surtout de l'incapacité et/ou de la complicité objective de la presse française avec le colonialisme sioniste. Avec néanmoins une mention exceptionnellement rare à une vidéo "Le Monde" qui a tenté de vérifier les impacts de la riposte iranienne à l'assassinat de Nasrallah.
Media blackout amid war: Israeli soldiers' casualties mount
in South Lebanon, extensive damage inside Israel
Report by Amal Shehadeh, English adaptation by Yasmine Jaroudi
The Israeli military enforced a media blackout on Thursday as the country's northern region awoke to heightened military activity, coinciding with Rosh Hashanah celebrations (New Year in Judaism).
The day began with the sound of sirens and continuous explosions, spanning from the Golan Heights to northern towns such as Tiberias, Safed, Acre, and Karmiel.
Israeli media reported two separate security incidents within hours, noting casualties among soldiers. Army helicopters were seen airlifting the dead and wounded to Rambam Hospital in Haifa.
Throughout the morning, around 100 rockets and drones breached northern Israel, with some landing in settlements near the border, causing significant damage.
In another context, the Israeli military continues to face substantial challenges in its ground incursion in Lebanon, particularly from roadside bombs and anti-tank missiles, which have become key threats.
Israeli military sources admitted that recent clashes with Hezbollah, which left eight soldiers dead, thwarted an alleged kidnapping attempt by Hezbollah's elite Radwan forces. Despite this, the army insisted that its ongoing ground operation in southern Lebanon remains limited and confined to a narrow area to prevent a broader infiltration by Hezbollah forces.
In parallel to the northern front, Israeli authorities remain silent about the ongoing attacks from Houthis and Iranian forces.
Satellite imagery revealed significant damage to Israel's Nevatim Airbase and a nearby airport, despite the stern warning from Israeli Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi from the Tel Nof Air Force Base, which was struck by an Iranian missile.
Despite the escalating violence on multiple fronts, Israeli officials are reportedly discussing potential responses to Iran, seeking to avoid a broader regional war.
Report by Wissam Nasrallah, English adaptation by Yasmine Jaroudi
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Another day of war in Lebanon saw Israel's technological and aerial superiority, but on the ground, the situation was far different. Israel's ground invasion, referred to as a "limited operation," has faced severe setbacks.
After Israel confirmed the death of nine soldiers during ambushes in Odaisseh and clashes in Maroun El-Ras, Hezbollah announced new confrontations with the Israeli military on the ground.
Israeli forces entered through the Fatima Gate, a crossing closed since Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, only to be met by heavy artillery fire from Hezbollah. In the chaos, an Israeli armored vehicle was abandoned.
In Maroun El-Ras, Israeli infantry attempting to infiltrate were targeted by Hezbollah fighters who detonated two explosive devices.
Another Israeli unit from the Golani Brigade tried to outflank the town from the west, only to trigger a pre-planted explosive. A separate bomb, known as a "Sigil," also detonated as Israeli forces attempted to infiltrate the town's cemetery.
Hezbollah's operations expanded beyond direct clashes to target Israeli troop concentrations. Rockets hit the Al-Rahib site, and Falaq missiles struck locations in Kfar Giladi and the Rameem base. A barrage of rockets also hit Tiberias.
As Hezbollah continued close-quarter clashes with Israeli forces, Israel escalated its attacks on Lebanese towns and villages, ordering the immediate evacuation of over 25 towns, many north of the Litani River.
Résistance yéménite en Mer Rouge, en solidarité avec la Palestine:
"Contre-blocus" des navires commerçant avec Israël
( Dégâts matériels au navire, pas de victimes humaines)
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Israel rocks Beirut with huge attack and cuts off main Lebanon-Syria road
Israel hits Beirut’s southern suburbs with its largest attack yet and cuts off a vital escape route into Syria.
4 Oct 2024
Huge explosions rocked the Lebanese capital’s southern suburb overnight, shaking the ground and sending plumes of smoke into the skyline.
Residents in Beirut said the bombardment was so intense that car alarms went off and buildings shook as Israeli fighter jets pounded the densely populated outskirts, including the international airport’s perimeter.
A source close to Lebanon’s Hezbollah group told the AFP news agency that Israel conducted 11 consecutive raids in what has been described as its most violent attack so far on Beirut.
The Israeli military has not issued an official statement and Hezbollah has not commented.
The Israeli military also hit Lebanon’s Masnaa border crossing with Syria in a separate attack, cutting off a road linking the two countries that was being used by hundreds of thousands of people to flee Israeli bombardments in recent days.
More than 300,000 people – mostly Syrian – crossed from Lebanon into Syria over the last 10 days to escape escalating Israeli bombardment, according to Lebanese government statistics.
Lebanon’s Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh told the Reuters news agency the attack hit inside Lebanese territory near the border crossing, creating a four-metre (12-feet) wide crater.
Israel accused Hezbollah on Thursday of using the crossing to transport military equipment into Lebanon. “The IDF (Israeli army) will not allow the smuggling of these weapons and will not hesitate to act if forced to do so, as it has done throughout this war,” army spokesman Avichay Adraee said on X.
Fears of wider war
Tensions in the region are at a boiling point after Iran launched its largest-ever missile attack on its arch-enemy Israel on Tuesday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Iran would pay for the assault, while Washington said it would work with its longtime ally to ensure Iran faced “severe consequences”.
US President Joe Biden said he did not believe there is going to be an “all-out war” in the Middle East, but warned there was yet “a lot to do” to avoid such a war.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was expected to lead Friday prayers at the Imam Khomeini Mosque in central Tehran for the first time since 2020, delivering a public sermon that may shed light on Iran’s plans after its missile attack.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Beirut on Friday, just hours after Israeli air attacks hit the airport’s perimeter, in the first visit by a top Iranian official since an Israeli strike killed Nasrallah in the Lebanese capital last week.
Israel has carried out deadly air raids in Beirut and across the country, killing more than 1,000 people, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, and forcing hundreds of thousands to flee their homes.
Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh has been attacked relentlessly amid Israeli orders to evacuate homes in some areas. Several air raids also struck beyond the confines of the capital’s suburbs for the first time this week, including in the central district of Bashoura, just metres away from Lebanon’s parliament.
In southern Lebanon, where Hezbollah holds sway, the Israeli military said it launched “limited, localised and targeted raids” overnight Monday, after days of heavy bombardment of the area.
On Friday, it ordered residents of 20 southern towns in Lebanon to evacuate immediately, signalling a potential escalation of its ground incursion. This was the first time Israel told Lebanese communities north of the UN-proposed buffer zone to evacuate, including the provincial capital Nabatieh, beyond the Litani River.
So far, the military has ordered residents of more than 77 villages and towns in southern Lebanon to flee their homes.
Israel has justified its ground incursion saying it aims to secure its northern border and ensure the safe return of more than 60,000 people displaced by Hezbollah attacks over the past year. The Lebanese group had engaged in a tit-for-tat fire exchange after Hamas’s October 7 attack to pressure Israel to halt its war on Gaza.
Middle East latest: An Israeli airstrike cuts a major highway linking Lebanon with Syria
ByThe Associated Press
October 4, 2024, 7:58 AM
An Israeli airstrike has cut off a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said Friday. The airstrike led to the closure of a road near the Masnaa Border Crossing, from where tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since the day after Hamas’ cross-border attack on Oct. 7, 2023, which killed 1,200 Israelis and took 250 others hostage. Israel declared war on the Hamas militant group in the Gaza Strip in response. More than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials. Nearly 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since then, most of them since Sept. 23, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
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Here is the latest:
BEIRUT — Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Beirut where he will discuss with Lebanese officials the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah.
Iran is the main backer of Hezbollah and has sent weapons and billions of dollars to the group over the years.
The Iranian official arrived in Lebanon as Israel launched new airstrikes on different parts of Lebanon, including Beirut’s southern suburb, south Lebanon, and the eastern Bekaa Valley.
Araghchi’s visit to Beirut came after Iran launched at least 180 missiles Tuesday into Israel, part of a series of rapidly escalating attacks that threaten to push the Middle East closer to a regionwide war.
BEIRUT — Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency says an Israeli airstrike has cut a main highway linking Lebanon with Syria.
The agency gave no further details about Friday’s airstrike that led to the closure of a road near the Masnaa Border Crossing, from where tens of thousands of people fleeing war in Lebanon have crossed into Syria over the past two weeks. It’s the first time this major border crossing has been cut off since the beginning of the war.
Lebanese General Security recorded more than 250,000 Syrian citizens and over 80,000 Lebanese citizens crossing into Syrian territory during the last week of September, after Israel launched a heavy bombardment of southern and eastern Lebanon.
Dama Post, a pro-government Syrian media outlet, said Israeli warplanes fired two missiles and damaged the road between Masnaa Border Crossing in Lebanon and the Syrian crossing point of Jdeidet Yabous.
There are half a dozen border crossings between the two countries and most of them remain open. Lebanon’s minister of public works said all border crossings between Lebanon and Syria work under the supervision of the state.
Hezbollah is believed to have received much of its weapons from Iran via Syria. The Lebanese group has a presence on both sides of the border where it fights alongside Syrian President Bashar Assad’s forces.
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