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October 19, 2024 | 11:23 pm
TEMPO.CO, Jerusalem - The Israeli military said Hezbollah had fired dozens of rockets and several drones into northern Israel on Saturday killing one person, with one drone directed at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's holiday home, according to his spokesman.
The volley from the Iran-backed Lebanese group came as health officials in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Palestinian militant group Hamas for more than a year, said Israeli strikes had killed more than 30 people across the territory.
Pledges from Israel and its enemies Hamas and Hezbollah to keep fighting in Gaza and Lebanon have dashed hopes that the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar might hasten an end to more than a year of escalating war in the Middle East.
Sinwar, a mastermind of the Oct. 7, 2023, attack that triggered the Gaza war, was killed by Israeli soldiers in the Palestinian enclave on Wednesday.
Israel also tightened a siege around hospitals in Jabalia in northern Gaza, where residents and medical officials said Israeli forces were bombing houses and preventing medical and food supplies from entering.
Israel has been pounding Jabalia, the largest of Gaza's eight historic refugee camps, in what it says is an effort to stop Hamas fighters regrouping. It said troops had been briefed to on mitigating harm to civilians and medical infrastructure.
As Israel continues military offensives on two fronts, Lebanon's health ministry said at least two people had been killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian-majority town of Jounieh, north of Beirut, in the first such attack on the area.
Witnesses described passengers running from a car after a blast, then seeing the charred remains of one passenger after a second blast.
The Israeli military was looking into the report of the strike, a spokesperson said. There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah, the Lebanese armed group that is fighting Israeli troops on Lebanon's southern border and whose top leadership has suffered blows from targeted Israeli strikes.
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At least four Israeli strikes hit Beirut's southern suburbs on Saturday afternoon, according to Reuters witnesses, after an Israeli military spokesperson issued warnings on social media platform X for two locations in the area.
Separately, the Israeli military said its aircraft killed Hezbollah's deputy commander of the Bint Jbeil area on Friday and that its troops had seized weapons including anti-tank missiles.
Hezbollah by midday on Saturday had claimed 11 attacks on Israeli military targets since midnight, all of them with salvos of rockets. There was no immediate comment from it on any drone attacks or attacks targeting Netanyahu's home.
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