Israeli forces killed three people in Damascus (Syria) on Wednesday, including the son-in-law of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, himself assassinated by Israel on September 27 in the suburbs of Beirut, an NGO said. “Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir, son-in-law of Hassan Nasrallah, is one of the two Lebanese victims of the Israeli raid which targeted an apartment in a residential building in the Mazzé district of Damascus,” said the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ‘man.
A source close to Hezbollah confirmed this information to AFP and specified that Hassan Jaafar al-Qasir was the brother of Jaafar al-Qasir, responsible for the transfer of weapons from Iran to Lebanon, which Israel announced it had killed Tuesday in a strike on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
An Israeli strike on a Hezbollah relief center, in the heart of Beirut, left six people dead during the night from Wednesday to Thursday. The raid targeted the “civil protection center” of the pro-Iranian movement in the Bachoura district, said a source close to Hezbollah. There are also seven injured, said the Ministry of Health.
Since Iran’s direct attack on Israel on Tuesday, the two countries have continued to threaten each other. “Iran has made a serious mistake […] and will pay the price,” warned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. However, American President Joe Biden assured Wednesday that the United States would oppose Israeli strikes against Iranian nuclear facilities, after reaffirming his full support for Israel the day before.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian, for his part, promised “a stronger response” in the event of reprisals, while assuring that his country was not “seeking war”.
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By firing a hail of missiles on Israel on Tuesday, Iran ratcheted up the tension as Israel strikes Lebanon to dislodge Hezbollah there and continues to attack Hamas in the Gaza Strip. All of these attacks have caused thousands of civilian casualties and raised fears of a widespread embrace of the region.
