Israel says Beirut strike killed a Hezbollah commander

Israel’s subject said Tuesday it killed a elder Hezbollah commandant who was progressive successful the transportation of weapons from Iran to the Lebanon-based militant group.

The Israel Defense Forces said an airstrike Monday connected Beirut killed Suhail Husseini, and it described him arsenic overseeing logistics and absorption for Hezbollah.

The onslaught came 10 days aft an Israeli onslaught killed Hezbollah person Hassan Nasrallah amid a propulsion that Israel says is aimed astatine removing the menace of Hezbollah from the Israeli-Lebanon border.

Israel carried retired airstrikes connected 2 fronts Monday, targeting Hamas positions crossed the Gaza Strip and Hezbollah fighters successful Lebanon arsenic the state marked 1 twelvemonth since a Hamas onslaught connected confederate Israel sparked a warfare that present threatens to engulf the full region.

In Gaza, the targets included Hamas rocket-launching positions. Hamas said Monday it fired rockets astatine Tel Aviv, Israel’s second-largest city, and areas adjacent respective borderline crossings successful confederate Israel.

Israel reported aerial raid sirens successful Tel Aviv and successful cardinal Israel successful effect to projectiles fired from Gaza.

Early Monday, the Israeli subject told residents successful 4 areas of the confederate Gaza Strip to determination to the alleged humanitarian country connected the seashore astatine al-Mawasi, saying violent actions by Hamas successful that country would beryllium met “with utmost force.” Residents of bluish Gaza are besides nether evacuation orders, and the United Nations said those orders are putting unit connected much than 400,000 Palestinians to determination to al-Mawasi, which is already overcrowded.

In confederate Lebanon, the Israel Defense Forces said 100 of its jets struck much than 120 Hezbollah targets. Hezbollah sites successful the country’s eastbound Beqaa Valley were besides targeted.

Monday evening, the IDF issued warnings to fishermen and different radical successful the country of the Awali River, banning them from the formation and the oversea successful that country and southbound of it “until further notice.” The stream flows into the Mediterranean adjacent the confederate metropolis of Sidon.

Hezbollah rockets deed the bluish Israeli metropolis of Haifa, wherever Israeli media said astatine slightest 10 radical were injured. Hezbollah said it targeted an Israeli subject basal southbound of Haifa.

Israel said its aerial unit besides successfully intercepted a surface-to-surface rocket launched from Yemen, wherever Iranian-backed Houthi rebels person stepped up their rocket occurrence toward the Jewish authorities successful caller days.

Somber anniversary

Meanwhile, Israelis held somber ceremonies to people the day of the October 7, 2023, Hamas panic attack.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday that Israel was “hurled into a captious battle, but we were not defeated” connected October 7.

“We rallied unneurotic to support our country, our homeland. We mustered immense intelligence strength,” helium said. “We outlined the goals of the war, and we are achieving them: toppling the regularisation of Hamas; bringing each the hostages home, the surviving and the deceased alike. This is simply a ineffable mission, and we volition not halt until we implicit it; eliminating immoderate aboriginal menace from Gaza to Israel; and returning the residents of the southbound and the northbound safely to their homes.”

In Washington, the White House said President Joe Biden spoke with Israeli President Isaac Herzog to connection his condolences. He and archetypal woman Jill Biden marked the day with a memorial candle lighting with a rabbi astatine the White House.

Biden said successful a connection that October 7 volition beryllium remembered “as a acheronian time for the Palestinian radical due to the fact that of the struggle that Hamas unleashed that day.”

“We volition not halt moving to execute a cease-fire woody successful Gaza that brings the hostages home, allows for a surge successful humanitarian assistance to easiness the suffering connected the ground, assures Israel’s information and ends this war,” Biden said.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Monday that Israel volition guarantee its radical tin instrumentality safely location and that everything imaginable volition beryllium done to guarantee hostages held successful Gaza return.

“Today much than ever, we transportation a heavy committedness to proceed taking each measurement indispensable to decision our enemies and to support our homeland,” Gallant said successful a statement.

In a video statement, U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres urged holding connected to anticipation amid bloodshed and division.

“It is clip for the merchandise of the hostages. Time to soundlessness the guns. Time to halt the suffering that has engulfed the region. Time for peace, planetary instrumentality and justice,” helium said. “The United Nations is afloat committed to achieving those goals.”

At the U.N., Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon led a commemoration for the October 7 victims that was attended by diplomats and members of the Jewish community.

“This warfare was forced upon us, yet we are consenting to wage the price,” Danon said. “We are consenting to bash what we must, careless of the condemnations, careless of the bias.”

That toll has been high. The IDF said Monday that 728 soldiers person been killed since October 7 successful Gaza and present Lebanon. More than 4,500 person been injured.

Hamas-led militants killed astir 1,200 radical successful their October 7, 2023, onslaught connected confederate Israel. They besides took astir 250 radical hostage, with astir 100 inactive being held and astir one-third of those are believed to beryllium dead.

Israel’s subject run of aerial and crushed attacks has killed astir 42,000 Palestinians and wounded much than 97,000, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. The ministry does not differentiate betwixt militants and civilians but has said conscionable much than fractional were women and children.

Both Hamas and Hezbollah person been designated arsenic panic organizations by the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and others.

VOA U.N. analogous Margaret Besheer and VOA newsman Natasha Mozgovaya contributed to this report. Some accusation for this communicative was provided by The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.