Death toll reaches to 41,825 in Palestine; US President Joe Biden on Friday advised Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities
Updated – October 05, 2024 01:27 pm IST
Israel’s retaliatory military campaign in Gaza has killed at least 41,431 Palestinians, the majority of them civilians, according to figures provided by the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza. | Photo Credit: AFP
Republican White House hopeful Donald Trump said Friday (October 4, 2024) he believes Israel should strike Iran’s nuclear facilities in response to the Islamic republic’s recent missile barrage.
“They asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’ That’s the thing you want to hit, right?” Mr. Trump told a town hall style event in Fayetteville, near a major U.S. military base.
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Saeed Atallah, a leader of Hamas’ armed wing, al-Qassam brigades, was killed with three family members in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, Hamas-affiliated media reported on Saturday. Israel did not immediately comment on the strike.
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Lebanese General Security recorded more than 250,000 Syrian citizens and over 80,000 Lebanese citizens crossing into Syrian territory during the last week of September. It’s the first time this major border crossing has been cut off since the beginning of the war. The U.N. refugee agency says Israeli airstrikes overnight near the main border crossing where people have been fleeing from Lebanon into Syria have “put a halt on traffic” and closed the route to vehicles.
UNHCR spokesperson Rula Amin said the border crossing between Masnaa, Lebanon, and Jdaidit Yabws in Syria has been the main thoroughfare between the two countries, even though three other border crossings remain open.
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October 05, 2024 13:17
Health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza says war death toll at 41,825
The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Saturday (October 5, 2024) that at least 41,825 people have been killed in almost a year of war between Israel and Palestinian militants.
The toll includes 23 deaths in the previous 24 hours, according to the ministry, which said 96,910 people have been wounded in the Gaza Strip since the war began when Hamas militants attacked Israel on October 7.- AFP
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October 05, 2024 13:12
Israel army says struck Hezbollah fighters inside south Lebanon mosque
The Israeli military said on Saturday (October 5, 2024) that its forces struck Hezbollah fighters inside a south Lebanon mosque overnight, the first such strike since clashes erupted between Israel and the militants last year.
“Overnight, with the direction of IDF (army) intelligence, the IAF (air force) struck Hezbollah terrorists who were operating within a command centre that was located inside a mosque adjacent to the Salah Ghandour Hospital in southern Lebanon,” the military said in a statement.- AFP
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October 05, 2024 12:17
UN says Lebanon peacekeepers ‘remain in all positions’ despite Israel request
The United Nations peacekeeping force it Lebanon said Saturday it would not leave positions in the country’s south despite what it said was an Israeli request to “relocate”.
“On September 30, the IDF (Israeli military) notified UNIFIL of their intention to undertake limited ground incursions into Lebanon. They also requested we relocate from some of our positions,” the UN Interim Force in Lebanon said in a statement, adding that “peacekeepers remain in all positions and the UN flag continues to fly.”- AFP
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October 05, 2024 12:13
A Hamas official is killed in an Israeli strike on a refugee camp
An Israeli strike on a refugee camp in north Lebanon has killed a Hamas official and his family, the militant group said Saturday (October 5, 2024).
Hamas said in a statement that the early Saturday strike on the Beddawi refugee camp struck the home of Saeed Atallah Ali, an official with Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades. Ali’s wife, Shaymaa Azzam, and their two daughters, Zeinab and Fatima — whom the statement described as children — were also killed in the attack.
As the Israel-Hamas war reaches the one-year mark, more than 41,000 Palestinians have been killed in the territory, and just over half the dead have been women and children, according to local health officials.- AP
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October 05, 2024 12:07
Biden says he doesn’t know whether Israel holding up peace deal to influence 2024 US election
President Joe Biden had terse words for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday (October 4, 2024), and said he did not know whether the Israeli leader was holding up a Mideast peace deal in order to influence the outcome of the 2024 US presidential election.
“No administration has helped Israel more than I have, none. None, none. And I think Bibi should remember that,” he said, referring to the Israeli leader by his nickname. “And whether he is trying to influence the election, I do not know but I am not counting on that.”
Mr. Biden has long pushed for a diplomatic deal, and he and his aides have indicated several times over the past few months that such an agreement was close. But it never seems to materialise, and in some cases, Mr. Netanyahu has publicly resisted the prospect while US and Israeli officials continue to talk in private about eking out a deal. – AP
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October 05, 2024 11:33
The Israeli army says its forces had hit more than 2,000 ‘military targets’ during its four-day incursion
The Israeli army on Friday (October 4, 2024) said its forces had hit more than 2,000 ‘military targets’ during its four-day incursion into southern Lebanon targeting Hezbollah positions.
Meanwhile, Lebanon Health Ministry has announced more than 2,000 people have been killed in Lebanon since the pager explosion and the barrage of airstrikes on Lebanon including the ground operation.
Smoke billows over Beirut’s southern suburbs after overnight strikes, amid ongoing hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as seen from Sin El Fil, Lebanon October 5, 2024.
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October 05, 2024 11:11
Iran says its allies ‘will not back down’ in war with Israel
Iran’s supreme leader vowed in a rare address on Friday (October 4, 2024) that his allies around the region would keep fighting Israel, as he defended his country’s missile strike on its foe.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s address in Tehran followed Iran’s second-ever direct attack on Israel. It was also the first since exchanges of fire between Tehran-backed Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops escalated into full-blown war in Lebanon.
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October 05, 2024 11:04
American killed in Lebanon was a US citizen, State Dept says
An American killed in Lebanon this week was a U.S. citizen, a State Department spokesperson said on Friday (October 4, 2024), adding that Washington was working to understand the circumstances of the incident.
Kamel Ahmad Jawad, from Dearborn, Michigan, was killed in Lebanon in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday, according to his daughter, a friend and the U.S. congresswoman representing his district.
“We are aware and alarmed of reports of the death of Kamel Jawad, who we have confirmed is a U.S. citizen,” the spokesperson said.- Reuters
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October 05, 2024 10:58
South Korea military aircraft evacuates 97 from Lebanon amid escalating tension
A South Korean military transport aircraft is evacuating 97 citizens and family members from Lebanon amid escalating tension and will return to South Korea on Saturday afternoon, the country’s foreign ministry said.
A KC-330 aircraft landed in Beirut on Friday morning and departed in the afternoon with the evacuees, who include Lebanese family members, and will arrive at a military airfield on the south of the capital, Seoul, it said.- Reuters
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October 05, 2024 10:54
Israel should ‘hit’ Iran nuclear facilities, says Donald Trump
The former president, speaking at a campaign event in North Carolina, referred to a question posed to Democratic President Joe Biden this week about the possibility of Israel targeting Iran’s nuclear program.
“They asked him, what do you think about Iran, would you hit Iran? And he goes, ‘As long as they don’t hit the nuclear stuff.’ That’s the thing you want to hit, right?” Mr. Trump told a town hall style event in Fayetteville, near a major U.S. military base.
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October 05, 2024 10:41
Biden warns Israel against Iran oil strikes as war fears mount
U.S. President Joe Biden on Friday advised Israel against striking Iran’s oil facilities, saying he was trying to rally the world to avoid the escalating prospect of all-out war in the Middle East.
But his predecessor Donald Trump, currently campaigning for another term in power, went so far as to suggest Israel should “hit” the Islamic republic’s nuclear sites.
Making a surprise first appearance in the White House briefing room, Mr. Biden said that Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu “should remember” U.S. support for Israel when deciding on next steps.
“If I were in their shoes, I’d be thinking about other alternatives than striking oil fields,” Biden told reporters, when asked about his comments a day earlier that Washington was discussing the possibility of such strikes with its ally.
– AFP
Published – October 05, 2024 10:41 am IST
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