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Israel launches ‘precise strike on Hezbollah stronghold’ in Beirut hours after 8 IDF soldiers killed in ‘ambush’ --[Reported by Umva mag]

ISRAEL has launched a “precise strike on a Hezbollah stronghold” in Beirut, the IDF has said. At least three loud explosions were reportedly heard in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday night. ReutersFire and smoke rise over Beirut’s southern suburbs after a strike on Wednesday[/caption] AFPSmoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in a southern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday[/caption] ReutersIsrael’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets on Tuesday[/caption] Israel is reportedly hitting the Hezbollah bastion of Dahieh, a suburb south of Beirut, according to Israeli and Lebanese outlets. “The IDF conducted a precise strike in Beirut,” the IDF said in a statement. It said more details would follow. It comes after least eight Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon earlier today. Their deaths are the first confirmed since Israeli troops and tanks poured over the border earlier this week for a much-anticipated showdown with the Iran-back terror proxy. Five members of the Egoz commando unit were killed during a fierce gun battle with Hezbollah terrorists in a southern Lebanon village. They have been named as Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, and Captain Itai Ariel Giat. A further four soldiers and an officer were seriously hurt in the same incident. Meanwhile, Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe and Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, both 21 and of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, were killed in a separate ambush. The Israel Defense Force wrote on X: “May their memories forever be a blessing.” It comes as Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to take out threatening Hezbollah posts rages on despite Iran’s missile barrage last night. The first footage of Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon has emerged as troops look to eliminate Hezbollah posts in the south. Today, the first plane evacuating Brits has left Beirut as civilians scramble to flee the warzone in Lebanon. IDFCaptain Eitan Itzhak was the first casualty of Israel’s ground operation[/caption] An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from northern Israel towards Lebanon Artillery is fired by the Israeli Army into Lebanon APAn Israeli Apache helicopter releases flares near the Lebanon border[/caption] EPASmoke billowing in the air after Israeli airstrikes near Maroun El Ras village in southern Lebanon[/caption] Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “We have arranged another flight for tomorrow, and further flights over the coming days for as long as there is demand and it is safe to do so.” The Middle East now appears a step closer to all-out war as Israel has deployed more troops into Lebanon today. Israel’s military confirmed infantry and armoured units were joining ground operations in southern Lebanon. The focus of the operation is clearing out Hezbollah terror sites to halt rocket attacks which have driven 60,000 from homes in Northern Israel in the last 11 months, Israeli sources said. It claimed actions there would remain “limited and localised”. But the addition of infantry and armoured troops could suggest the operation has moved beyond limited commando raids. Hezbollah’s media boss Mohammad Afif warned the group was “only in the first round” of fighting, however. The terror group has been firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas since the October 7 atrocity last year. But tensions have boiled over in recent weeks – with Israeli airstrikes into Lebanon killing more than 1,000 people. The IDF has warned civilians in more than 50 villages in south Lebanon to evacuate. It comes as… Israel ‘preparing to blast Iran’s oil fields’ in revenge UK helped fend off 181 Iran missile blitz with Typhoon jets Middle East on brick of all-out war as Israel vows retaliation At least six people shot dead in ‘terror attack’ in Israeli city Tel Aviv Elite IDF paratroopers & commando units launch ground invasion of Lebanon Israel vows to ‘crush Hezbollah’ after launching ‘Northern Arrows’ invasion Israel declares no-go zone for Lebanese civilians south of the Litani River UK Government charters emergency flight out of Lebanon for fleeing Brits I was sitting eating a pizza – moments later I was running for my life by Nick Parker, Foreign Editor, in northern Israel I’D just ordered a coffee in a roadside cafe on my way back from Israel’s northern war zone when the alert flashed up on my phone. It read: “Iran is preparing an imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel. Please take cover as soon as possible.” I was sitting in a pizza restaurant in a much-rocketed area north of the coastal port of Haifa when the warning pinged in my pocket. Moments lat

Oct 2, 2024 - 21:33

Israel launches ‘precise strike on Hezbollah stronghold’ in Beirut hours after 8 IDF soldiers killed in ‘ambush’ --[Reported by Umva mag]

ISRAEL has launched a “precise strike on a Hezbollah stronghold” in Beirut, the IDF has said.

At least three loud explosions were reportedly heard in the Lebanese capital on Wednesday night.

a city at night with smoke coming out of a building

Fire and smoke rise over Beirut’s southern suburbs after a strike on Wednesday[/caption]

an aerial view of a city at night with smoke coming out of the buildings

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a neighbourhood in a southern suburb of Beirut on Wednesday[/caption]

a city at night with a few buildings lit up

Israel’s Iron Dome anti-missile system intercepts rockets on Tuesday[/caption]

Israel is reportedly hitting the Hezbollah bastion of Dahieh, a suburb south of Beirut, according to Israeli and Lebanese outlets.

“The IDF conducted a precise strike in Beirut,” the IDF said in a statement.

It said more details would follow.

It comes after least eight Israeli soldiers were killed in Lebanon earlier today.

Their deaths are the first confirmed since Israeli troops and tanks poured over the border earlier this week for a much-anticipated showdown with the Iran-back terror proxy.

Five members of the Egoz commando unit were killed during a fierce gun battle with Hezbollah terrorists in a southern Lebanon village.

They have been named as Cpt. Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, Cpt. Harel Etinger, 23, Sgt. First Class Noam Barzilay, 22, Sgt. First Class Or Mantzur, 21, Sgt. First Class Nazar Itkin, 21, and Captain Itai Ariel Giat.

A further four soldiers and an officer were seriously hurt in the same incident.

Meanwhile, Staff Sgt. Almken Terefe and Staff Sgt. Ido Broyer, both 21 and of the Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, were killed in a separate ambush.

The Israel Defense Force wrote on X: “May their memories forever be a blessing.”

It comes as Israel’s invasion of Lebanon to take out threatening Hezbollah posts rages on despite Iran’s missile barrage last night.

The first footage of Israeli soldiers inside Lebanon has emerged as troops look to eliminate Hezbollah posts in the south.

Today, the first plane evacuating Brits has left Beirut as civilians scramble to flee the warzone in Lebanon.

a young man in a military uniform is smiling for the camera .

Captain Eitan Itzhak was the first casualty of Israel’s ground operation[/caption]

An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from northern Israel towards Lebanon, Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Baz Ratner) — An Israeli mobile artillery unit fires a shell from northern Israel towards Lebanon

Artillery is fired by the Israeli Army into Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Jish, northern Israel October 2, 2024. REUTERS/Jim Urquhart — Artillery is fired by the Israeli Army into Lebanon

a helicopter is flying through a cloudy sky with smoke trails

An Israeli Apache helicopter releases flares near the Lebanon border[/caption]

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Smoke billowing in the air after Israeli airstrikes near Maroun El Ras village in southern Lebanon[/caption]

Foreign Secretary David Lammy said: “We have arranged another flight for tomorrow, and further flights over the coming days for as long as there is demand and it is safe to do so.”

The Middle East now appears a step closer to all-out war as Israel has deployed more troops into Lebanon today.

Israel’s military confirmed infantry and armoured units were joining ground operations in southern Lebanon.

The focus of the operation is clearing out Hezbollah terror sites to halt rocket attacks which have driven 60,000 from homes in Northern Israel in the last 11 months, Israeli sources said.

It claimed actions there would remain “limited and localised”.

But the addition of infantry and armoured troops could suggest the operation has moved beyond limited commando raids.

Hezbollah’s media boss Mohammad Afif warned the group was “only in the first round” of fighting, however.

The terror group has been firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas since the October 7 atrocity last year.

But tensions have boiled over in recent weeks – with Israeli airstrikes into Lebanon killing more than 1,000 people.

The IDF has warned civilians in more than 50 villages in south Lebanon to evacuate.

It comes as…

Israel ‘preparing to blast Iran’s oil fields’ in revenge
UK helped fend off 181 Iran missile blitz with Typhoon jets
Middle East on brick of all-out war as Israel vows retaliation
At least six people shot dead in ‘terror attack’ in Israeli city Tel Aviv
Elite IDF paratroopers & commando units launch ground invasion of Lebanon
Israel vows to ‘crush Hezbollah’ after launching ‘Northern Arrows’ invasion
Israel declares no-go zone for Lebanese civilians south of the Litani River
UK Government charters emergency flight out of Lebanon for fleeing Brits

I was sitting eating a pizza – moments later I was running for my life

by Nick Parker, Foreign Editor, in northern Israel

I’D just ordered a coffee in a roadside cafe on my way back from Israel’s northern war zone when the alert flashed up on my phone.

It read: “Iran is preparing an imminent ballistic missile attack against Israel. Please take cover as soon as possible.”

I was sitting in a pizza restaurant in a much-rocketed area north of the coastal port of Haifa when the warning pinged in my pocket.

Moments later I saw other diners picking up their phones as warnings reached them but was impressed by their stoicism as they carried on munching on their margaritas.

These were people who have endured daily rocket attacks from Hezbollah for nearly a year but even they began to shuffle in their seats as more warnings appeared on their mobile security apps.

This was clearly something much bigger than the daily Hezbollah barrage from the north.

And moments later we were jammed in the door as it was confirmed that more than a hundred Iranian ballistic missiles flying at 14 times the speed of sound were on their way.

This was confirmed to be only the first of several waves of attacks heading out way.

We ran across the road into a concrete shelter where English speakers told me to expect to be stuck there for some time as I tapped out my story using the glow of my laptop screen.

Then moments later the first booms split the air high above as Iron Dome interceptors engaged the incoming rockets.

I – probably very foolishly – took a sneak peek into the sky outside and watched trails of red rockets racing up to meet the missiles in a spectacular but potentially deadly firework display.

But scary spectaculars like this have become a way of life for the people of northern Israel – who clearly trust the boffins whose rocket wizardry had saved their lives yet again.

It remained unclear whether Iran’s terror masters had inflicted death or destruction as they attempted to decimate their hated enemy.

And this may be just the first of many terrifying tests for the people of Israel, their enemies and the millions caught in the crossfire as the threat of a catastrophic war looms.

a soldier with a backpack is walking down a street

Israeli troops searching a Hezbollah post in Lebanon[/caption]

A rocket flies in the sky, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, October 1, 2024. REUTERS/Ammar Awad — Hezbollah fired over 100 rockets into Israel

a rocket is being launched into the sky .

Iran claims to have used hypersonic missiles to attack Israel[/caption]

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Soldiers from Israel’s 98th Division were videoed in Lebanon at night[/caption]

Israel has said it will continue to strike Hezbollah until it is safe for tens of thousands of its citizens displaced from homes near the Lebanon border to return.

Hezbollah has vowed to keep firing rockets into Israel until there is a cease-fire in Gaza with Hamas.

Fighting has continued despite Iran’s 181 missile salvo into Israel.

Western experts discounted Iran’s claims 90 per cent hit targets and analysts branded the blitz another embarrassing flop and a 320 missile and drone attack in April was also repelled.

But furious Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned the terrorist state had made a “big mistake”.

He warned: “There is also a deliberate and murderous hand behind this attack – it comes from Tehran.

“We will stand by the rule we established: whoever attacks us – we will attack him.”

Israel is now planning a major response to last night’s unprecedented Iranian missile attack – likely to hit Iranian oil plants and air defence system.

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Ballistic missiles being launched from Iran[/caption]

a group of people standing in a pile of rubble in front of a sign that says lancast

Buildings were reduced to rubble in Lebanon[/caption]

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Smoke rises from an Israeli airstrike in Choueifat, south of Beirut[/caption]

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