The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Hossein Salami, warned Israel. After the strikes by the Jewish state on Saturday on military sites in Iran, General Hossein Salami warned on Monday October 28 against “unimaginable bitter consequences” according to the Tasnim news agency. The leader of the ideological army of the Islamic Republic also affirmed that Israel had not “failed to achieve its treacherous goals” with these raids which, according to the army, caused “limited damage” and four deaths among the soldiers. Israel struck military sites in response to the Iranian missile attack on October 1, itself in retaliation for the assassination of leaders of Palestinian Hamas and Lebanese Hezbollah, movements supported by Tehran. Follow our live stream.
At least 5 dead in new strikes in Lebanon. At least five people died in the southern coastal city of Tire on Monday. The day before, at least 21 people were killed in raids targeting the towns of Haret Saïda, Aïn Baal and Bourj al-Chemali, still in the south of the country. In northern Israel, warning sirens sounded several times Monday morning, according to AFP, which did not have information on possible victims at this time. Follow our live stream.
At least 21 dead in Lebanon on Sunday. Several Israeli strikes hit southern Lebanon, killing at least 21 people, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. At least nine people died in a bombing near Saida, about sixty kilometers from the border. In the locality of Aïn Baal, at least seven people were killed and 24 injured in a “raid by the Israeli enemy”according to this same source. Finally, five people were killed in a strike on the town of Bourj al-Chemali.
The UN Security Council meets. The UN Security Council will meet urgently in New York at 3 p.m. (local time) to discuss the situation in the Middle East, the Swiss presidency of the Council announced on Sunday. This meeting follows a request made by Iran and supported by Algeria, China and Russia. The head of Iranian diplomacy called on Sunday the Security Council to meet urgently to condemn Saturday's Israeli strikes against the Islamic Republic of Iran.
