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Smoke billows over the Gaza City’s eastern suburb of Shejaiya on Saturday.Credit: Omar al-Qattaa/AFP
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TOPSHOT – Emergency and security service members and residents gather around the carcass of a car at the site of an Israeli strike in al-Khiyara town in Lebanon’s Western Bekaa area on June 22, 2024, which killed a member of the Jamaa Islamiya group according to a Lebanese security source. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned on June 21, that fighting between Israel and Hezbollah must not turn Lebanon into “another Gaza.” (Photo by Hassan JARRAH / AFP)Credit: AFP
IDF says a drone that headed toward Israel from the east was intercepted overnight into Sunday ■ Israeli solider killed in operational accident in southern Gaza ■ Hezbollah releases video claiming of capturing satellite images of strategic Israeli facilities ■ Hezbollah says it struck a military base in Beit Hillel, northern Israel ■ Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
IDF says a drone that headed toward Israel from the east was intercepted overnight into Sunday ■ Israeli solider killed in operational accident in southern Gaza ■ Hezbollah releases video claiming of capturing satellite images of strategic Israeli facilities ■ Hezbollah says it struck a military base in Beit Hillel, northern Israel ■ Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
IDF says it intercepted a drone in the Misgav Regional Council, where a facility belonging to the weapons manufacture Rafael is located
The Israeli army has intercepted a drone in the Misgav Regional Council in Israel’s north. A facility belonging to the Israeli weapons manufacture Rafael is located in the area.
RECAP: Hezbollah drone explodes in northern Israel; Defense Minister Gallant leaves for Washington
Here’s what you missed from day 260 of the war:
■ Medical sources in the Gaza Strip say that eight people were killed Sunday morning in an Israeli strike in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sabra. The number of Gazans killed in the last day is 56, they added.
■ Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant is leaving for an official visit to the United States, where he is expected to meet with senior Biden administration officials including Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and congress officials.
■ Hezbollah claims responsibility for drone strike at Beit Hillel, northern Israel, says it struck a military base.
■ IDF says a drone that headed toward Israel from the east was intercepted overnight into Sunday.
■ Hezbollah published a video overnight into Sunday, claiming of capturing satellite footage of Israeli military and strategic facilities such as the Haifa oil refineries, the Ben Gurion International Airport, the Ashdod Port and more.
■ The Israeli army says that the 162nd division continues to operate in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and that its troops have captured munitions and destroyed terror-tunnel shafts.
■ Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join Hezbollah in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say.
■ UKMTO: Merchant vessel struck by Houthis near Al Hudaydah, Yemen, no casualties reported
■ Israeli reservist Malkia Gross, 25-years-old, was killed in an operational accident in southern Gaza, the IDF announced on Saturday.
Rocket sirens sound in the central Galilee in Israel’s north
Sirens were activated in the area of the Misgav Regional Council.
Medical sources in Gaza say eight people killed in IDF strike in Gaza City neighborhood
Medical sources in the Gaza Strip say that eight people were killed Sunday morning in an Israeli strike in the Gaza City neighborhood of Sabra.
The sources added that the number of Gazans killed in the last day is 56.
IDF says troops destroy terror-tunnel shafts in Rafah, capture Hamas munition
The Israeli army says that the 162nd division continues to operate in the southern Gaza city of Rafah and that its troops have captured munitions and destroyed terror-tunnel shafts.
Forces of the army’s 99th division continue to operate in the central Gaza Strip, the statement said, adding that Israeli air force fighter jets have destroyed dozens of Hamas targets in the region.
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join with the militant Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Wednesday that militant leaders from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen and other countries have previously offered to send tens of thousands of fighters to help Hezbollah, but he said the group already has more than 100,000 fighters.
“We told them, thank you, but we are overwhelmed by the numbers we have,” Nasrallah said. He added that the battle in its current form is using only a portion of Hezbollah’s manpower, an apparent reference to the specialized fighters who fire missiles and drones.
Officials from Lebanese and Iraqi groups backed by Iran say Iran-backed fighters from around the region will join in if war erupts on the Lebanon-Israel border. Thousands of such fighters are already deployed in Syria and could easily slip through the porous and unmarked border.
Some groups have already staged attacks on Israel and its allies since the Israel-Hamas war started Oct. 7. The groups from the so-called “axis of resistance” say they are using a “unity of arenas strategy” and they will only stop fighting when Israel ends its offensive in Gaza against their ally, Hamas.
“We will be [fighting] shoulder to shoulder with Hezbollah” if an all-out war breaks out, one official with an Iran-backed group in Iraq told The Associated Press in Baghdad, insisting on speaking anonymously to discuss military matters. He refused to give further details.
An official with a Lebanese Iran-backed group, also insisting on anonymity, said fighters from Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Forces, Afghanistan’s Fatimiyoun, Pakistan Zeinabiyoun and the Iran-backed rebel group in Yemen known as Houthis could come to Lebanon to take part in a war.
Three Palestinians arrested in West Bank for allegedly attacking a settler, stealing his cattle
Israeli army forces have arrested three Palestinians and two Israeli activists in the Bedouin Palestinian village of Ra’s al ‘Ayn in the West Bank on Saturday following a complaint by an Israeli settler who claimed his cattle was stolen by village residents who have also attacked him.
A video footage captured at the scene shows settlers arriving in the village with the soldiers who made the arrests and captured about 15 goats. Among the settlers was Neria Ben Pazu, against whom the Biden administration has imposed sanctions on and a warrant was issued by the IDF Central Command.
After the arrest, the status of the detained Israelis was altered to “witness only,” and they were not charged.
One of the arrested activists told Haaretz that there was no likelihood that the goats would be taken from the settler’s farm because the herds are hundreds of meters away from each other.