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September 30, 2024
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Find the latest developments in the escalation of tensions between the Israeli army and the Islamist movement Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas.
Six Hezbollah rescuers killed by Israeli strike
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that an Israeli strike had killedix first aiders of the Islamic Health Committeeaffiliated with Hezbollah, in the Bekaa plain, in the east of the country.
An “enemy strike on the Islamic Health Committee’s civil defense center killed six relief personnel and left injured four others” in Sohmor, the ministry said in a statement, reiterating its condemnation of “Israeli targeting of emergency services.” Several groups affiliated with Hezbollah and its allies operate health centers and emergency response operations in Lebanon .
Emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers
The head of European diplomacy, Joseph Borrellurgently convened a meeting of foreign ministers from the 27 EU countries on Monday to discuss the situation in Lebanon, his spokesperson confirmed.
The ministers will meet at 5 p.m. by videoconference. The objective is to discuss the “deterioration of the situation on the ground in Lebanon”. The meeting is informal, which means thatno decision expected Monday. It must allow Member States to discuss responses to the crisis.
Josep Borrell deplored Friday evening at the UN that “no one”, not even the United States, cannot “stop” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his wars against Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon. He warned that Lebanon was “on the brink of all-out war.”
Hezbollah will choose a successor to Nasrallah as soon as possible
Hezbollah will choose a successor to its leader “as soon as he has the opportunity”, announced Monday the number two of the groupclaiming that Hassan Nasrallah was killed with four others in a strike on Friday and not in the company of more than 20 of his comrades as Israel claimed.
In a televised speech, Naïm Qassem affirmed that Hezbollah was ready to repel a ground offensive by the Israeli army and assured that he would continue his fight against Israel “in support of Gaza”.
First Israeli strike on the heart of Beirut
The Israeli army on Monday carried out a airstrike in the heart of Beirutfor the first time since the start of the military escalation between Israel and Lebanese Hezbollah, killing three members of a Palestinian armed group.
Palestinian Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah also supported by Iran, also announced that its leader in Lebanon was killed in a strike in the south of the countrywhere the Israeli army has been carrying out intense bombings against the Lebanese Islamist group for a week.
Some 100,000 people have fled Lebanon to Syria
Some 100,000 people have fled to Syria following Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Monday, a figure which doubled in two days.
“The number of people who have crossed from Lebanon to Syria, fleeing Israeli airstrikes – Lebanese and Syrian nationals – has reached 100,000. The exodus continues,” wrote the UN High Commission for refugees, Filippo Grandi, on the social network
“UNHCR,” he said, “is present at four crossing points to help these people, alongside local authorities and the Syrian Red Crescent.”
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