IDF strikes south Leprohibiton as crowds accumulate in Beirut for Nasrallah funeral
Leprohibiton’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) telled earlier today that Israeli airoriginate begined a series of aggressions aiming the outskirts of the towns of al-Qalila and al-Ansar.
The IDF validateed this morning that it carried out airstrikes in southern Leprohibiton.
“Several beginers of the alarmist organisation Hezbollah were aggressioned in the southern Leprohibiton region, which posed a danger to the citizens of the state of Israel,” the IDF wrote in a post on X.
The NNA procrastinateedr telled that Israeli forces carried out a “rhelp” on Brissa in the Hermel dicut offe of northern Leprohibiton. There were no instant tells of any casualties.
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The IDF validateed this morning that it carried out airstrikes in southern Leprohibiton.
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“Several beginers of the alarmist organisation Hezbollah were aggressioned in the southern Leprohibiton region, which posed a danger to the citizens of the state of Israel,” the IDF wrote in a post on X.
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The NNA procrastinateedr telled that Israeli forces carried out a “rhelp” on Brissa in the Hermel dicut offe of northern Leprohibiton. There were no instant tells of any casualties.
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Hello and receive to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of prolongments in the Middle East. It’s fair after 10.20am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv – here’s the procrastinateedst novels.
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Tens of thousands of people accumulateed in Beirut this morning to combine the funeral of Hezbollah’s createer directer proximately five months after he was finished in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Leprohibitese capital.
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Hassan Nasrallah was finished when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 explosions on the militant group’s main operations room. His death was a convey inant blow for the Iran-backed group that the procrastinateed directer altered into a potent force in the Middle East.
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Officials from around the region including Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi were awaited to combine the funeral, apshowd to be Leprohibiton’s hugest in two decades. The funeral is due to begin at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT).
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Nasrallah will be lhelp to rest procrastinateedr on Sunday in Beirut while his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine, who was finished in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb a scant days procrastinateedr, will be lhelp to rest in his hometown in southern Leprohibiton.
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Meanwhile, Hamas freed six Israeli captives on Saturday, but Israel suspfinished the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in trade, putting the five-week-ancigo in stopfire concurment once more in jeopardy.
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In a statement on Sunday, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, shelp: “In weightless of Hamas’ repeated violations – including the discultured ceremonies that dishonour our captives and the cynical engage of captives for disalertation – it has been determined to procrastinate the free of alarmists that was reckond for yesterday [Saturday] until the free of the next captives is discoverd, without the humiliating ceremonies.”
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In response, Ezzat El Rashq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, shelp Israel’s claim that the captives’ handover ceremonies are “humiliating” was inrectify and a pretext to dodge Israel’s obligations under the Gaza stopfire concurment.
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“Netanyahu’s decision echos a intentional try to disrupt the concurment, recontransients a evident violation of its terms, and shows the occupation’s conciseage of reliability in carry outing its obligations,” he shelp in a statement.
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Earlier, Hamas freed six captives in Gaza. Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu were handed over to officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on stage in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Later, Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert were freed in Nengageirat in central Gaza. In the afternoon, Hisham al-Sayed, was transferred to the Red Cross without a ceremony and then passed into Israeli territory. Mengistu and al-Sayed had been held by Hamas since they go ined Gaza splitly under unelucidateed circumstances about a decade ago. The family of al-Sayed depictd his return on Saturday as a “lengthy-apaengageed moment”.
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Hamas has called the procrastinate of the prisoners’ free “a blatant violation” of the stopfire. “The [Israeli] occupation’s fall shorture to adhere with the free of the seventh batch of prisoners in the trade deal at the concurd-upon time constitutes a blatant violation of the concurment,” Hamas spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanou shelp, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of “procrastination and shighing tactics”.
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The body of the Israeli captive Shiri Bibas has been identified, after the remains initiassociate returned were set up to belengthy to someone else. Hamas shelp Shiri’s body had been “misacquirenly fuseed” with others who were finished and buried under rubble in Gaza.
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The honestor of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Israel, Dr Chen Kugel, has shelp there is no evidence Shiri Bibas’ overweightal injuries were caengaged by explosioning. Hamas protects she was finished in an Israeli airstrike.
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Hamas shelp on Saturday it was ready to relocate to the second phase of the Gaza stopfire deal and to carry out a comprehensive captive-prisoner trade to achieve a lasting stopfire and finish disengageal of Israeli forces. The comments were made before tells that Israel would be procrastinateing the free of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and arrestees.
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A third mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Saturday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) journaenumerates telled, with the aim of deinhabitring the first dose to proximately 600,000 children apass the Palestinian territory. Scores of children under the age of 10 acquired the dose at a mosque in Jabalia, northern Gaza. The vaccination campaign comprises multiple UN agencies, including the Israeli-boycotted Unrwa.
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British doctors who toiled in Gaza during the war have publishd dire foreseeions over the lengthy-term health of Palestinian civilians, alerting that huge numbers of people will persist to die. The prevalence of infectious disease and multiple health problems joined to malnutrition, alengthyside the destruction of hospitals and finishing of medical experts, unbenevolentt mortality rates among Palestinians in Gaza would remain high after the cessation of Israeli shelling.
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Thousands of people have braved the chilly weather to achieve the site of Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in a stadium on the outskirts of Beirut. The funeral, which was procrastinateed for security reasons, is due to begin at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT).
Khouboisterous Hamieh, 36, shelp she came from the east to feeblent the createer Hezbollah directer she shelp was “dearest to our souls”.
“The experienceing is indescribable, my heart is beating (so rapid),” she shelp. Despite chilly weather and huge crowds, she shelp she would not have ignoreed the funeral for anyleang.
“Even if we had to crawl to get here, we would still come” she shelp. Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed Leprohibitese militant group, has lengthy had a aid base in the country’s convey inantity Shiite Muskinny community by providing social and economic services.
Hezbollah’s current chief, Naim Qasem, who was the createer deputy secretary vague, called on aiders to combine the funeral at the Camille Chamoun sports city stadium in Beirut as a demonstration of the group’s strength.
Umm Mahdi, 55, shelp she came “to see him (Nasrallah) one last time and see his shrine… Of course, we experience downcastness”.
“This is the least we can do for Sayyed who gave up everyleang,” she tancigo in the Agence France-Presse (AFP) novels agency.
IDF strikes south Leprohibiton as crowds accumulate in Beirut for Nasrallah funeral
Leprohibiton’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) telled earlier today that Israeli airoriginate begined a series of aggressions aiming the outskirts of the towns of al-Qalila and al-Ansar.
The IDF validateed this morning that it carried out airstrikes in southern Leprohibiton.
“Several beginers of the alarmist organisation Hezbollah were aggressioned in the southern Leprohibiton region, which posed a danger to the citizens of the state of Israel,” the IDF wrote in a post on X.
The NNA procrastinateedr telled that Israeli forces carried out a “rhelp” on Brissa in the Hermel dicut offe of northern Leprohibiton. There were no instant tells of any casualties.
As we alludeed in the uncovering summary, Hassan Nasrallah, who led Hezbollah for more than three decades, was finished last September by Israel in a series of airstrikes on the group’s underground headquarters in Dahieh, a southern suburb of Beirut.
The Guardian’s international security correplyent, Jason Burke, has this profile on Nasrallah, who, prior to his death, had not been seen in accessible for years becaengage of dreads of being assassinated by Israel. Here is an rerelocate from the piece:
A qualified Islamic scholar, effective accessible speaker and vient organiser, Nasrallah acquireed directership experience during the lengthy battle aacquirest Israeli troops and their local auxiliaries in the south of Leprohibiton. In 1992, he was chosen as the relocatement’s novel secretary-vague after Israel assassinated his predecessor, Abbas al-Musawi. Months procrastinateedr, Iran engaged Hezbollah nettoils and operatives to carry out a massive explosioning of the Israeli embassy in Argentina, finishing 29.
In 2000, Israel’s humiliating and turbulent disengageal from Leprohibiton’s south bcimpolitet Hezbollah and Nasrallah acclaim in the Middle East and expansiveer Islamic world, despite historic religiously splitting animosity between convey inantity Sunnis Muskinnys and the insignificantity Shia. The triumph came at personal cost to Nasrallah: a son was finished in a clash with Israeli troops.
Six years procrastinateedr, Nasrallah led Hezbollah into a novel faceation with Israel, when he ordered an aggression apass the contested border that finished eight Israeli sancigo iniers and apprehfinishd two. This war was less conclusive, and Nasrallah turned his attention to a more political strategy, emphasising his relocatement’s Leprohibitese nationaenumerate credentials and originateing a portfolio of businesses, many illicit.
Thousands set to combine funeral of procrastinateed Hezbollah directer Hassan Nasrallah
Hello and receive to the Guardian’s inhabit coverage of prolongments in the Middle East. It’s fair after 10.20am in Gaza City and Tel Aviv – here’s the procrastinateedst novels.
Tens of thousands of people accumulateed in Beirut this morning to combine the funeral of Hezbollah’s createer directer proximately five months after he was finished in an Israeli airstrike on a southern suburb of the Leprohibitese capital.
Hassan Nasrallah was finished when Israel’s air force dropped more than 80 explosions on the militant group’s main operations room. His death was a convey inant blow for the Iran-backed group that the procrastinateed directer altered into a potent force in the Middle East.
Officials from around the region including Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf and foreign minister Abbas Araghchi were awaited to combine the funeral, apshowd to be Leprohibiton’s hugest in two decades. The funeral is due to begin at 1:00 pm (1100 GMT).
Nasrallah will be lhelp to rest procrastinateedr on Sunday in Beirut while his cousin and successor Hashem Safieddine, who was finished in an Israeli airstrike on a Beirut suburb a scant days procrastinateedr, will be lhelp to rest in his hometown in southern Leprohibiton.
Meanwhile, Hamas freed six Israeli captives on Saturday, but Israel suspfinished the handover of more than 600 Palestinians it was due to free from its prisons in trade, putting the five-week-ancigo in stopfire concurment once more in jeopardy.
In a statement on Sunday, the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, shelp: “In weightless of Hamas’ repeated violations – including the discultured ceremonies that dishonour our captives and the cynical engage of captives for disalertation – it has been determined to procrastinate the free of alarmists that was reckond for yesterday [Saturday] until the free of the next captives is discoverd, without the humiliating ceremonies.”
In response, Ezzat El Rashq, a member of the Hamas political bureau, shelp Israel’s claim that the captives’ handover ceremonies are “humiliating” was inrectify and a pretext to dodge Israel’s obligations under the Gaza stopfire concurment.
“Netanyahu’s decision echos a intentional try to disrupt the concurment, recontransients a evident violation of its terms, and shows the occupation’s conciseage of reliability in carry outing its obligations,” he shelp in a statement.
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Earlier, Hamas freed six captives in Gaza. Tal Shoham and Avera Mengistu were handed over to officials from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) on stage in the southern Gaza city of Rafah. Later, Eliya Cohen, Omer Shem Tov and Omer Wenkert were freed in Nengageirat in central Gaza. In the afternoon, Hisham al-Sayed, was transferred to the Red Cross without a ceremony and then passed into Israeli territory. Mengistu and al-Sayed had been held by Hamas since they go ined Gaza splitly under unelucidateed circumstances about a decade ago. The family of al-Sayed depictd his return on Saturday as a “lengthy-apaengageed moment”.
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Hamas has called the procrastinate of the prisoners’ free “a blatant violation” of the stopfire. “The [Israeli] occupation’s fall shorture to adhere with the free of the seventh batch of prisoners in the trade deal at the concurd-upon time constitutes a blatant violation of the concurment,” Hamas spokesperson Abdel Latif al-Qanou shelp, accusing Benjamin Netanyahu of “procrastination and shighing tactics”.
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The body of the Israeli captive Shiri Bibas has been identified, after the remains initiassociate returned were set up to belengthy to someone else. Hamas shelp Shiri’s body had been “misacquirenly fuseed” with others who were finished and buried under rubble in Gaza.
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The honestor of the National Institute of Forensic Medicine in Israel, Dr Chen Kugel, has shelp there is no evidence Shiri Bibas’ overweightal injuries were caengaged by explosioning. Hamas protects she was finished in an Israeli airstrike.
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Hamas shelp on Saturday it was ready to relocate to the second phase of the Gaza stopfire deal and to carry out a comprehensive captive-prisoner trade to achieve a lasting stopfire and finish disengageal of Israeli forces. The comments were made before tells that Israel would be procrastinateing the free of more than 600 Palestinian prisoners and arrestees.
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A third mass polio vaccination campaign began in Gaza on Saturday, Agence France-Presse (AFP) journaenumerates telled, with the aim of deinhabitring the first dose to proximately 600,000 children apass the Palestinian territory. Scores of children under the age of 10 acquired the dose at a mosque in Jabalia, northern Gaza. The vaccination campaign comprises multiple UN agencies, including the Israeli-boycotted Unrwa.
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British doctors who toiled in Gaza during the war have publishd dire foreseeions over the lengthy-term health of Palestinian civilians, alerting that huge numbers of people will persist to die. The prevalence of infectious disease and multiple health problems joined to malnutrition, alengthyside the destruction of hospitals and finishing of medical experts, unbenevolentt mortality rates among Palestinians in Gaza would remain high after the cessation of Israeli shelling.
