LIVE – Middle East: Israel wants to respond to Iran’s missile attack and strike “without respite” at Hezbollah in Lebanon

The official Lebanese press agency reported “more than 30 Israeli strikes” during the night from Saturday to Sunday, on the southern suburbs of Beirut and its surroundings, shortly after Israeli calls to evacuate several neighborhoods of this Hezbollah stronghold. . The Israeli army said on Telegram that it was “currently striking terrorist targets” of Hezbollah in the Beirut sector.

AFP journalists heard several detonating explosions and saw smoke rising. Ambulances rushed to the scene, according to ANI, which had reported the presence of Israeli reconnaissance drones flying at low altitude, before these “very violent” strikes.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called on Saturday for an end to “shocking violence” and “bloodshed” in Gaza and Lebanon, two days before the first anniversary of the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas on Israeli soil. “Today is an opportunity for the international community to once again loudly condemn the abominable acts of Hamas, including the taking of hostages,” the senior official said in a statement.

The UN chief also demanded their “immediate and unconditional release”, while asking Hamas to “allow the International Committee of the Red Cross to visit these hostages”.

The Representative Council of Jewish Institutions of France (Crif) “strongly deplored” on Saturday the remarks of Emmanuel Macron on the cessation of deliveries to Israel of weapons used in Gaza, ensuring in particular that they “encouraged rebellious France in its radicalism and its strategy of chaos in public debate.

“Calling to deprive Israel of weapons is not playing the game of peace, it amounts to playing the game of Hamas and Hezbollah!” Crif lambasted Crif on the social network eve of the anniversary of October 7 hurts all those who care about the fight against terrorism. It also encourages rebellious France in its radicalism and its strategy of chaos in public debate.

“If we call for a ceasefire, consistency means not providing the weapons of war”: Emmanuel Macron demanded on Saturday an end to deliveries to Israel of weapons used in Gaza, sparking anger of Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, before the anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

Hezbollah said it had repelled during the night from Saturday to Sunday an “attempt” to infiltrate the Israeli army which has been carrying out incursions into southern Lebanon for several days where it is fighting the pro-Iranian movement. In a statement, the Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement said that “when a force of enemy Israeli soldiers attempted to infiltrate… into Blida” and its fighters “targeted it with shells of ‘artillery and forced to retreat’.

Gaza Civil Defense reported 21 dead on Sunday in an Israeli strike on a mosque transformed into a shelter for displaced people in Deir al-Balah, with the Israeli army explaining for its part that it had targeted fighters from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas. “The death toll rises to 21 and there are a large number of injured following the bombing by the (Israeli) army of a mosque sheltering displaced people in front of the entrance to the Martyrs’ Hospital in “Al-Aqsa in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip,” Civil Defense spokesman Mahmoud Bassal said.

For its part, the Israeli army explained in a statement that it had “carried out a precise strike on Hamas terrorists who were operating in a command and control center located in a structure that previously served as the Shuhada al-Aqsa mosque in the region.” of Deir al-Balah.

Hello everyone. Welcome to TF1info to follow the latest news around the heightened tensions between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite Islamist movement Hezbollah.