Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes at midnight on Thursday on an underground bunker where senior Hezbollah leaders were believed to be meeting, including the presumed successor to the group’s recently assassinated chief, according to three Israeli officials.
A series of huge explosions rocked the densely populated neighborhoods just south of Beirut as the strikes hit. Shock waves shook buildings across the Lebanese capital.
The Israeli officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence, said the military had information suggesting leaders were meeting in a bunker in the Dahiya, as the suburbs south of Beirut are known. Those leaders included Hashem Safieddine, a cousin and possible successor of Hassan Nasrallah, the longtime Hezbollah chief who was assassinated in a similar attack last week, the officials said
Israel is now carrying out major operations on multiple fronts. The explosions in the Dahiya, a stronghold of the militant group, came shortly after an Israeli warplane carried out an airstrike in Tulkarm, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Palestinian health officials said at least 18 people were killed.
Israel has employed numerous airborne drone attacks in the West Bank since Oct. 7, but it has generally reserved its fighters and bombers for Gaza.
In Gaza itself, the Israeli military carried out numerous strikes on Thursday, and local health officials reported in the afternoon that at least 99 people had been killed over the previous 24 hours, one of the highest daily tolls in the past three months.
There are signs that Israel may be preparing to intensify the ground invasion into Lebanon that it began this week as it battles Hezbollah. The Israeli military warned residents of more than 20 towns and cities in southern Lebanon on Thursday to leave their homes immediately and not to move south toward the Israeli border. And this week, the military said it was sending a fifth division of soldiers to the border area with Lebanon.
Efforts by Hezbollah to strike Israel continued to be thwarted by the country’s formidable air defenses. The Israeli military said that at least 200 rockets had been launched at Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, but there were no immediate reports of injuries, according to Israel’s emergency services, Magen David Adom.
Israeli leaders were continuing to weigh a military response to Iran, which on Tuesday launched nearly 200 missiles at targets across Israel. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel, who has vowed retribution for the missile attack, said on Wednesday that his country was engaged in “a tough war against Iran’s axis of evil.”
President Biden, in an apparent attempt to stem the escalation and broadening of conflicts in the Middle East, said on Wednesday that he would not support Israel striking Iran’s nuclear sites. On Thursday, oil prices jumped after President Biden, asked if he would support an Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities, said: “We’re discussing that. I think that would be a little … anyway.”
Here is what else to know:
Continuing strikes: The Israeli military said on Thursday morning it had struck about 200 sites in Lebanon overnight, including local government offices in Bint Jbeil, a large town near the border with Israel, where it killed 15 people it described as Hezbollah fighters.
Iran sanctions: Mr. Biden told reporters that leaders of the Group of 7 nations had agreed in a call on Wednesday to impose new sanctions on Iran for the missile strike. He said the other leaders on the call — of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan — agreed that Israel had the right to respond but that it must be proportional.
Hamas losses: The Israeli military kept up its attacks on Iranian-backed Hamas in Gaza, saying on Thursday that it had killed three top Hamas officials in a previously undisclosed airstrike three months ago, including Rawhi Mushtaha, one of the closest confidants of Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader. Hamas did not immediately comment on Israel’s claim, but it has generally not confirmed or denied the deaths of its officials in the conflict.
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Oct. 3, 2024
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An earlier version of this article described incorrectly the death toll in Gaza on Thursday. It was one of the highest daily tolls in the last three months, not the highest.
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Despite Iran’s bluster, anxiety is spreading among its people over possible war with Israel.
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A crowd of people are seen with fireworks and Iranian flags.
A crowd in Tehran after Iran’s missile attack on Israel on Tuesday.Credit...Arash Khamooshi for The New York Times
As Iran awaits possible retaliation strikes by Israel, its senior officials threatened to hit back with force and the armed forces were placed on highest alert. But in interviews and on social media and virtual town hall discussions, many Iranians said anxiety about an unpredictable war with Israel was spreading.
In telephone interviews with more than a dozen Iranians in different cities, men and women across political divides said they did not want or support a war with Israel or the United States. They said that their lives were already a struggle because of a terrible economy, American sanctions, corruption and oppression. War could exacerbate these hardships and plunge the country into more chaos.
“Nobody I know has prepared for a possible war,” Mahdieh, 41, an engineer in Tehran, said in a phone interview. “We are jarred. Let us have our normal life. We are not willing or want to enter a war era.” She asked that her last name not be published out of fear of retribution. She said she and her husband had prepared an emergency bag with their documents in case they needed to leave Tehran.
A message shared widely on social media by many Iranians read, “NO WAR,” and “Which bunkers will you use to shield the people? How will you repair damaged infrastructure? There is no good in war, do not lay ruin to Iran.”
On Monday Iran launched 180 ballistic missiles into Israel in retaliation for Israel’s killing of its top regional ally, the Hezbollah leader, Hassan Nasrallah, that of a senior Iranian general in Beirut and that of the political leader of Hamas in Tehran. Israel has said it plans to respond by attacking Iran; its potential targets include military bases for the Revolutionary Guards Corps and oil refineries.
President Masoud Pezeshkian of Iran traveled to Qatar on Wednesday to attend a conference of the Organization of Islamic Countries, where he said that Iran did not seek war, saying “there are no winners in war, we know this.” And then he warned, “Iran will respond stronger if Israel makes the slightest mistake.”
Iran’s mission to the United Nations said in a statement that Tehran and Washington had exchanged messages through their official intermediary in Tehran in the aftermath of the attack on Israel. The statement said that Iran considered any country that assisted Israel in an attack on Iran “an accomplice and a legitimate target.”
According to two Iranian officials, who are familiar with the war planning and were not authorized to speak publicly, Iran had asked Russia for cooperation with satellite intelligence ahead of an Israeli strike.
But despite the official saber rattling, even some supporters of the government who had cheered the attacks on Israel were now confronting the realities of an all-out war that could take out infrastructure and harm the economy. Facing that possibility, some said they hoped Israel’s response would be limited and any tit-for-tat strikes would end quickly.
“We had to slap it [Israel] in the face, otherwise it would keep moving forward,” Hamidreza Jalaeipour, a prominent sociologist close to the reformist faction, said in a discussion on the application Clubhouse. “If there is a war, it will be imposed on us.”
Mr. Jalaeipour said he predicted that in the event of war the majority of Iranians would rally behind the flag to defend their country forcefully and put divisions aside.
But discontent against the government runs deep, and in waves of protests, notably in the women-led uprising in 2022, demonstrators called for the toppling of the ruling clerics. The loyalty and ideological fervor of the early years of the revolution — when even teenagers volunteered for the front lines of the eight-year war the country was then fighting with Iraq — has given way to despair and frustration with the status quo.
Some opponents of the government said they were angry that Iran had struck Israel in the first place, placing the lives and safety of its own citizens at risk for a cause outside its own borders. In anti-government protests in previous years, people have chanted, “No to Gaza, no to Lebanon, my life for Iran.”
And now that Israeli attacks seemed likely and imminent, the government had not announced any emergency provisions to prepare the population for war.
“Most of us are not happy about the interference of the Islamic Republic in the region and its so-called proxies. People do not want their national resources to be spent abroad,” said Mahan, a 50-year-old doctor in the northern city of Rasht. “The most pressing feeling these days, both for myself and the majority of friends and people I know, is the fear and worry of war.”
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Israel says it rescued a Yazidi woman in Gaza taken captive by ISIS as a child.
The Israeli military said on Thursday that it had rescued a 21-year-old Yazidi woman who had been held in captivity in the Gaza Strip after being captured by ISIS in Iraq as a child more than a decade ago, describing the operation as a “complex operation” involving the United States, Jordan and others.
The woman, Fawzia Amin Sido, appeared to be “more or less” in fine physical shape but was “not in a good mental situation,” Brig. Gen. Elad Goren, who leads the Israeli military’s humanitarian-civilian effort in the Gaza Strip, said in a briefing with reporters on Thursday.
He said that she had endured significant trauma over a long period, including rape and abuse. She received food and basic treatment in Israel, he said, and U.S. officials then escorted her to Jordan by car, from which she was returned to her family in Iraq. An Israeli diplomat, David Saranga, posted a video on social media showing Ms. Sido’s return, and said her captor was “a Palestinian Hamas-ISIS member.” The New York Times has not verified the video.
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