Israeli Prime Minister and US President-elect Donald Trump discussed the “Iranian threat”in the wake of the Republican candidate's victory, while Israeli strikes continue in Lebanon, with at least 40 deaths on Wednesday, November 6 alone. Here's what to remember from this day on the front lines of the conflict in the Middle East.
Benjamin Netanyahu welcomes Donald Trump's “historic return” to the White House
Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu spoke on Wednesday after the former's victory in the American presidential election. The conversation has “been friendly and cordial” and the two leaders “agreed to cooperate for the security of Israel” et “discussed the threat from Iran”which also supports Hamas, according to the Israeli Prime Minister's Office. He had previously greeted “the historic return to the White House” the Donald Trump.
During his previous mandate, the Republican had multiplied gestures in favor of Israel, moving the American embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights and contributing to the normalization of ties between Israel and several Arab countries with the Abraham Accords.
New Hezbollah leader keeps pressure on Israel
Naïm Qassem, the new leader of Hezbollah, supported by Tehran, has displayed his determination to continue the fight against Israel, despite the blows inflicted on his movement since the Israeli army redirected against him the war it has been waging for more than 'one year against Hamas. Naïm Qassem, who spoke before the results of the American presidential election, affirmed that his movement was not counting on its outcome to achieve a ceasefire with Israel.
At least 40 dead in Israeli strikes in eastern Lebanon
At least 40 people were killed Wednesday by Israeli strikes on eastern Lebanon, notably the town of Baalbek, where rescuers are still looking for survivors in the rubble, the Health Ministry announced in the evening. Fifty-three other people were injured. The death toll includes eleven people killed in the town of Baalbek, including nine in the Shikan district, a heavily populated Sunni neighborhood of the Shiite-majority city. An Israeli strike also killed 16 people in the village of Nasriyah, according to the ministry.
Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli military base near Tel Aviv
Hezbollah claimed to have fired drones against an Israeli base south of Tel Aviv on Wednesday, specifying that it was the first time it had targeted this military installation. In a statement, the Lebanese Islamist movement said it had sent a “attack drone squadron against the Bilu base (under the reserve parachute brigade), south of Tel Aviv”.
Earlier in the day, the pro-Iranian group said it had carried out a “complex attack” on “the Stella Maris naval base, northwest of Haifa, with a salvo of missiles and a squadron of drones”and having fired missiles against a military base near Ben-Gurion airport, south of Tel Aviv. Traffic was not affected, nor were the runways damaged, according to the Israel Airports Authority.
