Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, vowed on Saturday, November 2, to retaliate “scathing” to any attack by Israel and the United States, the day when pro-Iranian groups in Iraq fired drones into Israeli territory, which were intercepted. At the same time, the Israeli army continues its wars against Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Here is what to remember from this day on the front of the conflict in the Middle East.
Iran threatens Israel and the United States to retaliate against any attack
The Iranian Supreme Leader, l'ayatollah Ali Khameneipromised on Saturday to respond to any attack by Israel and the United States against Iran or its allies. “The enemies, both the United States and the Zionist regime, must know that they will certainly receive a scathing response to their actions against Iran, the Iranian nation and the resistance front,” he said in front of students.
Besides Hamas and Hezbollah, Iran supports Houthi rebels in Yemen and armed groups in Iraq, part of what Tehran calls “axis of resistance” facing Israel, which has occupied Palestinian territories since 1967. On Saturday, the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, claimed drone attacks in the direction of Eilat, a city in the south of Israel on the sea Red. The Israeli military said it intercepted three drones over the Red Sea approaching from the east.
Israel confirms having captured a Hezbollah “agent” in Lebanon during a commando operation
Israel confirmed it had captured a “agent” of Hezbollah during an operation carried out by an elite navy unit in Batroun, north of Beirut. “During a special operation carried out by +Shayetet 13+ (“Flottilla-13”, the navy commandos) in the Lebanese town of Batroun, a high-ranking Hezbollah agent was apprehended”a military official said in a statement. The man, whose name has not been released, is believed to be a “expert in his field” and is being questioned by a military intelligence unit, he continued, without further details.
Israeli strike on Beirut suburbs leaves 15 injured
The Israeli army, for its part, carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon, where its forces have been engaged in a ground offensive since September 30, and on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of the Lebanese Islamist movement. One person was killed and 15 others were injured in this strike on the suburbs, according to a provisional report from the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Israel bombs several locations in the Gaza Strip
In the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army bombarded Jabalia and Beit Lahia, in the north of the territory, and Nousseirat, in the center, where three Palestinians died according to civil defense, during the night from Friday to Saturday. The army, which has concentrated its offensive since October 6 in the north of the territory where according to it Hamas is regrouping its forces, claimed to have “eliminated dozens of terrorists in Jabalia”. She also reported operations in the south and center of the besieged and devastated territory.
The army also said it had located a tunnel containing a weapons production facility belonging to Hamas in Gaza City, in the north of the territory, in which they notably found “diving equipment” intended for “infiltrate Israeli territory by sea”. Israel continuously bombs this poor and cramped territory where the vast majority of some 2.4 million inhabitants have been displaced and live in conditions described as “disastrous” by the UN.
Six injured including four children during attack on vaccination center in northern Gaza
The head of the World Health Organization announced that “six people, including four children, were injured” after a polio vaccination center was “touch”, in the north of the Gaza Strip. The polio vaccination campaign resumed this Saturday in the northern Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah claims rocket fire on Israel
For its part, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket salvos on a military base near Tel Aviv, a base for “military industries” north of Haifa and other targets in northern Israel. At least 19 people were injured in Tira, in the center of the country, when a projectile fell on a building which was gutted, Israeli authorities said, reporting the interception of several rockets.
Furthermore, the Israeli army announced on Saturday that two “projectiles” had been fired from the northern Gaza Strip and crashed in southern Israel without causing any injuries. “No casualties have been reported”the army said in a statement. These are the first launched from Palestinian territory in several weeks.
Demonstrations in support of Gaza and Lebanon in several European cities
In Paris, as in Berlin or Amsterdam, thousands of people demonstrated to protest against the “genocide” underway in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. New mobilizations are planned for Sunday, from 2 p.m. in Paris, specifies the France Palestine Solidarité association.
