Hezbollah gets rockets thru the Israeli air defence efforts causing injuries IN Israel…
President Biden tells Netanyahu he doesn’t want a all out Israeli attack effort on Iran….
(One would assume Israel will need US help for any strike)
The US is sending advanced anti-missile units WITH American troops going in country…
Israel IS still pounding area’s it says houses Hamas fighters which has resulted in more deaths and destruction in Gaza….
Deadly strikes in central Gaza overnight killed or injured dozens of Palestinians, health officials and the United Nations said on Monday, as the Israeli military hit a hospital complex where it said Hamas fighters were hiding and a separate attack damaged a school turned shelter.
An Israeli strike caused a tent encampment to catch fire in the courtyard of Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, leaving five people dead and dozens hurt, according to Doctors Without Borders, which has medical staff working in Gaza.
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Eduardo Maia Silva, a White House National Security Council spokesman, called the images and videos that emerged from the scene “deeply disturbing” and said that “even if Hamas was operating near the hospital in an attempt to use civilians as human shields” Israel “has a responsibility to do more to avoid civilian casualties.”
A separate attack hit a school compound in central Gaza where families were sheltering in the city of Nuseirat, according to Palestinian civil defense, an emergency service, which said that at least eight bodies had been recovered from the scene. The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports. The main U.N. agency aiding Palestinians in Gaza said the facility was to have been used as a site for polio vaccinations after a mass anti-polio campaign in the territory resumed on Monday.
The strikes in Gaza followed a weekend of intense fighting along Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, home of the Iran-backed militia Hezbollah. Across Lebanon, at least 51 people were killed and 174 others injured on Saturday, and at least three people were killed and 84 wounded on Sunday, the Lebanese authorities said, as Israel’s weekslong assault on Hezbollah continued.
Here’s what else to know:
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Protecting peacekeepers: The U.N. Security Council was holding a closed emergency meeting about Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon that have hit and wounded U.N. peacekeeping forces. Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, issued a video statement shortly before the U.N. meeting on Monday saying that Israel was not targeting the peacekeepers.
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Drone attack: The Hezbollah drone strike on an army base in northern Israel that killed four soldiers this weekend has highlighted Israel’s vulnerability against attacks from unmanned aircraft.
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U.S. sends military aid to Israel: The United States said on Sunday that it was sending an advanced missile defense system to Israel, along with about 100 American troops to operate it. It will be the first time the United States has sent forces to Israel since the Hamas-led attacks there last October.
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Lebanon strike: The Lebanese Red Cross said on Monday that 21 people had been killed in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Aitou in northern Lebanon, more than 70 miles from the Israeli border. The largely Christian region is not known to have been previously targeted by Israel over the past year as it has traded strikes with Hezbollah…..
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Hezbollah and Houthi attacks that HAVE landed IN Israel….
Minutes before a deadly Hezbollah drone strike on an army base in northern Israel this weekend, Israeli police officers notified the Air Force about reports of a suspicious aircraft, the police said. They were told not to worry because the aircraft was Israeli, prompting the officers to close the case.
The Air Force’s assessment appeared to be wrong: Moments later, four Israeli soldiers were killed and dozens more were wounded in the Hezbollah attack, the latest of several recent drone strikes that have highlighted weaknesses in the way that Israel detects unmanned aircraft.
In July, the Houthi militia in Yemen hit an apartment building in Tel Aviv, killing one civilian. Hezbollah last week hit a nursing home north of Tel Aviv, causing damage but no casualties. Earlier in the year, Hezbollah broadcast footage that was captured by a drone that flew over sensitive installations in Haifa, seemingly without being detected.
The latest strike, on a training base south of the Israeli city of Haifa, highlighted how Hezbollah retains the ability to hurt Israel despite devastating Israeli attacks on its leadership and infrastructure. It also pointed up Israel’s defensive shortcomings, prompting the Israeli military to launch an investigation and its chief spokesman to acknowledge on Sunday: “We must provide better defense.”….
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Netanyahu says no civilian target’s on Israeli Iran strikes….
When Biden and Netanyahu spoke Wednesday — their first call in more than seven weeks after months of rising tensions between the two men — the prime minister said he was planning to target military infrastructure in Iran, according to a U.S. official and an official familiar with the matter. Like others in this story, they spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive deliberations….
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Oct 14, 2024 – ISW Press
Hezbollah’s October 13 drone attack targeting an IDF base is likely part of an effort to impose costs on Israel as Hezbollah faces operational challenges in southern Lebanon.
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