Israeli army shelling hits targets in Nabatieh, southern LebanonAnd that was, according to Tsahal, Night attack on Hezbollah “weapons depot” and other “military facilities” in Hanin and Maroun al-RasSites close to the northern border line of the Hebrew state.Hezbollah, a movement backed by the Iranian regime, has been supporting Hamas since the Palestinian movement launched an attack and the Israeli response on October 7. The exchange of fire between Israeli forces and the Lebanese Shiite movement occurs almost daily.
The conflict on the Lebanese front intensified after the killing of Fouad Shukr, the military commander of Hezbollah, in late July, in an Israeli attack in Beirut on the eve of the assassination in Tehran of the political leader of the Hamas movement, Ismail Haniyeh.
Since then, Israel has been threatened with retaliatory measures by Iran and Hezbollah..
Hassan Nasrallah’s Shiite movement published a video clip whose authenticity was not verified by international agencies. The fighters move through large tunnels and trucks loaded with visible missiles..
After more than ten months, at least 579 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters. There are records indicating that 121 civilians were killed, according to a report by Agence France-Presse.
The “new terms” were rejected.
On the diplomatic level, The US administration presented, today, Friday, after two days of negotiations in Doha, Qatar, an amended proposal for a ceasefire agreement in the Gaza Strip.. Still, The Hamas delegation immediately rejected any “new conditions” imposed by Israel..Diplomatic pressure has intensified in an attempt to stop the regional escalation.
The trio of mediators formed by the United States, Qatar and Egypt announced a new round of negotiations next week in Cairo..
North American President Joe Biden, who has been in touch with his counterparts from Egypt and Qatar, referred to the idea that an agreement “has never been closer.” He told reporters, “I think we have a chance,” describing himself as “optimistic.”
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is expected to travel to Israel on Saturday in an attempt to “strike a deal” based on the mediators’ new proposal, the State Department in Washington said.
In turn, Israeli PM urges tripartite mediation to ‘put pressure’ on Hamas, Jordanian FM Ayman Safadi calls in opposite direction“Direct and effective pressure” should focus, from Amman’s point of view, on Benjamin Netanyahu.
Hamas’s October 7 attack killed 1,198 people in Israel. The radical Palestinian movement held 251 hostages. Of those, 111 will remain in Gaza, including 39 who the Israeli military has reported killed. The Israeli counteroffensive has claimed the lives of at least 40,005 people, according to a report by the Gaza Health Ministry.
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