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Israel and Hamas at War

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  • More than 1,000 others including Hezbollah fighters, medics and Iran’s envoy to Beirut were wounded when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon.

  • Lebanon’s Hezbollah has drawn on a greatly expanded arsenal during nearly a year of cross-border hostilities with Israel. One of the world’s most heavily armed non-state groups, it says it has used just a small part of its weaponry so far.

  • Following are facts about the Lebanese-based group Hezbollah, some of whose fighters and medics were wounded on Tuesday when the pagers they use to communicate exploded across Lebanon, security sources told Reuters.

  • Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon, Mojtaba Amani, was slightly injured on Tuesday by the explosion of an electronic pager, Iran’s semi-official Fars news agency reported, as numerous such devices exploded across Lebanon.

  • A majority of Gazans believe Hamas’ decision to launch the Oct. 7 attack on Israel was incorrect, according to a poll published on Tuesday pointing to a big drop in backing for the assault that prompted Israel’s devastating Gaza offensive.

  • Israel’s domestic security agency said on Tuesday that it had foiled a plot by Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior defence official in the coming days.

  • Israel’s Business Forum on Tuesday urged Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to not fire his defence minister, saying it would create more division and weaken the country after reports of an imminent political shake-up rattled the country.

  • Israel on Tuesday added the safe return of its citizens to their homes near the border with Lebanon to its formal war goals amid reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu planned to replace his defence minister with a hawkish rival.

  • The U.S. offered to recognize the Houthi government in Sanaa in a bid to stop the Yemeni rebel group’s attacks, a senior Houthi official said on Monday, in remarks that a U.S. official said were false.

  • U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Egypt on Tuesday to discuss a Gaza ceasefire and release of hostages with Egyptian officials, the State Department said.

  • In August 2023, Hanan al-Bayouk travelled from Gaza to Israeli-occupied Arab East Jerusalem for a high-risk birth. Her triplets, born prematurely and underweight, are doing well, but she had to leave them shortly after they were born and does not know when she will be able to hold them again.

  • Israel’s initial findings on the killing of U.S. citizen Ayşenur Ezgi Eygi do not exonerate Israeli security forces, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday, warning that Washington would consider other measures if it is not satisfied with the results of a full Israeli probe.

  • Hamas chief Yehya Sinwar congratulated Yemen’s Houthi group for its missile attack on Israel over the weekend and said this sent a message to their foe, the Houthi Al-Massirah TV reported on Monday, underscoring fears the war in Gaza could erupt into a wider regional conflict.

  • The United States is still working with mediators Egypt and Qatar to present a revised proposal for a ceasefire in the war in Gaza, State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller said on Monday.

  • U.N. human rights experts criticised mostly Western states on Monday for continuing to support Israel despite what they described as a genocide in Gaza which might turn Israel into a “pariah” nation.

  • Reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering firing Defence Minister Yoav Gallant shook the political landscape and sent Israeli financial markets lower on Monday.

  • Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Tehran would never give up on its missile programme as it needs such deterrence for its security in a region where Iran’s arch-foe Israel is able to “drop missiles on Gaza every day”.

  • Tehran has not sent hypersonic missiles to Yemen’s Houthis, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said in a televised news conference on Monday, a day after the Iran-backed group said a missile it fired at Israel was a hypersonic one.

  • International airlines have suspended hundreds of flights to and from Tel Aviv, as well as some to Lebanon and Jordan, in reaction to the Israel-Hamas war.

  • Concerns over a wider conflict in the Middle East have prompted international airlines to suspend flights to the region or to avoid affected air space.