Israelis began observing Yom Kippur while it’s military continued to bomb area’s in Lebanon that they say housed Hezbollah fighters , some firing missiles at Northern Israel….
The Lebanon Prime Minister is asking for a cease fire and observance of the terms of the UN border agreement…
Some UN peace keepers have come under fire from the IDF
That will fall on deaf ears as long as Hezbollah fighters IN Lebanon keep attacking Israel one would think…
The Israeli Defense Minister IS in Wash DC talking to the US Defense head Lloyd Austin…
(One COULD guess that IF Israeli decide’s to strike Iran?…US assistance would be needed?)
Another round of polio vaccination’s are due to begin ….
It is unknown if the Israeli’s will do ‘pauses’ to accompany the effort …
Israel and Hezbollah traded attacks on Friday night as many Israelis began observing Yom Kippur, one of the holiest days in the Jewish calendar. Earlier, the caretaker prime minister of Lebanon appealed in a speech for a diplomatic resolution to the fighting in his nation.
Sirens sounded in central Israel amid the holiday, and the Israeli military said that two aerial drones had been detected crossing from Lebanese territory. They “were under surveillance from the moment they crossed the border from Lebanon,” the military said, noting that the air force successfully intercepted one. It added that there had been “damage to a building in Herzliya,” on Israel’s central coast, but no known casualties.
Residents of central Lebanon spent Friday searching the rubble of two buildings that were destroyed late on Thursday in an area dotted with foreign embassies that had been largely untouched by the fighting. Lebanese officials said at least 22 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in the strikes, which it attributed to Israel. Israel’s military did not respond to requests for comment on the strikes in Beirut.
On Friday, the Israeli military said it had struck Hezbollah militants and rocket launchers in southern Lebanon.
In a televised address, Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, urged Israel and Lebanon to return to the provisions of a 2006 U.N. agreement on demilitarizing the countries’ shared border, adopted after the previous war between Israel and Hezbollah.
In recent days, the question of how to restore that resolution has also consumed senior U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken. A Hezbollah spokesman indicated Friday that the group was open to cease-fire efforts.
Israel has been heavily bombing sites across Lebanon in recent weeks as part of a major offensive against Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed militant group. Several strikes in Beirut have succeeded in killing their targets, including the longtime Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and some of his close associates and presumed successors.
Here’s what else to know:
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Lebanese soldiers killed: On Friday, the Lebanese military said that the Israeli military had targeted an army center in the town of Kafra in southern Lebanon, killing two soldiers and injuring three others. The Lebanese Army is distinct from Hezbollah and not a party to its conflict with Israel. The Israeli military said it was conducting an “in-depth examination” of the incident and was not aware of any Lebanese military facilities in the area of it strikes, which it said were aimed at Hezbollah targets.
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Peacekeepers struck: United Nations officials said on Friday that two peacekeepers had been injured after explosions at their headquarters in southern Lebanon, leading one of them to be hospitalized. It followed a separate attack on Thursday in which two peacekeepers were injured when an Israeli tank fired on the same U.N. base in Naqoura, Lebanon.
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Northern Gaza: Many residents of northern Gaza are staying putdespite the Israeli military’s dropping leaflets over the town of Jabaliya over the weekend to warn people to evacuate to the south because of a coming offensive against Hamas. About 400,000 people remain in Gaza’s north, according to the United Nations, and many do not have the means to flee or are fearful of being permanently displaced.
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Polio vaccinations: A mass polio vaccination campaign in Gaza that provided initial inoculations to nearly 560,000 children is set to resume with a necessary second round of boosters on Monday. But newly intensified Israeli assaults on the enclave and evacuation orders have cast doubt over whether medical teams will be able to reach all the children under the age of 10 who received the first dose last month.
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Defense minister meeting: Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III spoke on Thursday with his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, about Israel’s expanding military operations in Lebanon, the Pentagon said on Friday. A short summary of the call released by Maj. Gen. Patrick Ryder, Mr. Austin’s spokesman, made no mention of any discussion about Israel’s expected retaliation for Iran’s recent missile barrage…..
Oct 11, 2024 – ISW Press
The IDF 91st Division has seized terrain in an unspecified area of southern Lebanon to prevent Hezbollah direct fire attacks into Israel, supporting the stated Israeli war aim of returning Israeli civilians to the north.
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