“These US war criminals are sponsoring a colonial genocide in Gaza and a war of aggression on Lebanon.”
US support for Israel’s attacks on Gaza and Lebanon as well as President Joe Biden’s statement that the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was “a measure of justice,” have sparked outrage on social media.
“Hassan Nasrallah was a terrorist with American blood on his hands…Today, Hezbollah’s victims have a measure of justice,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House on Saturday.
Hezbollah announced on Saturday that its secretary-general had been killed the previous day in an Israeli airstrike in which F-35 fighter jets, targeted a site in Haret Hreik, in the southern suburbs of Beirut. Nasrallah’s body was recovered on Sunday.
Some social media users condemned the US president for defending Israel’s actions and highlighted the US government’s role in supporting Tel Aviv’s aggression on Lebanon and Palestine. Others pointed to the continued US arms shipments, including bunker-buster bombs, provided to Israel since October 2023, funded by billions of dollars from American taxpayers.
Media ‘Framing’
Assal Rad, a US-based historian and author, criticized the US government for permitting Israel’s continued bombardment of Lebanon. She referenced a New York Times report that implied the US was “powerless” in stopping the actions of Tel Aviv.
“This framing from NYT makes it sound like the world’s biggest powers are powerless, but Biden has enormous leverage. Letting Israel do whatever it wants is a choice,” Rad said.
This framing from NYT makes it sound like the world’s biggest powers are powerless, but Biden has enormous leverage. Letting Israel do whatever it wants is a choice. pic.twitter.com/xxst4DAPtS
Another social media user on X highlighted the use of “2,000-pound bunker buster bombs” by Israel in Friday’s attacks, stating that both Biden and Kamala Harris are complicit in the ongoing massacres, with the bombs being provided by the US.
Russia’s Condemnation
Another X user, @kahlissee asked ‘How did we get from trying to stop a Genocide in Gaza, to Israel invading a 2nd country to commit the same,” adding “There is NO Rule of law, NO International community, and NO Human Rights.”
Khalissee also highlighted Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov criticizing Biden’s remarks.
Describing Nasrallah’s assassination as “another political murder,” Lavrov stated, “I heard that President Biden said that it was the right decision.”
???? Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov:
Biden's words about the correctness of killing the Hezbollah leader demonstrate the US approach to conflicts:
"Remember how Hillary Clinton, when they showed live broadcast of Muammar Gaddafi covered in blood, was delighted and laughed,… pic.twitter.com/eWtTIEZueb
“They have a somewhat different attitude to how to behave in conflicts and what to be guided by,” he pointed out.
“Remember how Hillary Clinton, when it was a live broadcast, showing Muammar Gaddafi covered in blood, how she was admiring and laughing, looking at the screen? Or Madeleine Albright, who commenting on the process of American aggression against Iraq, said: Well, yes, 400,000 died, but it was worth it. Democracy was worth it.”
‘Crimes Against Humanity’
Motasem A Dalloul, a journalist based in Gaza, also criticized Biden saying the US president “who claims he is seeking an end to Israeli aggression, calls Israel’s use of bunker buster bombs that destroy high rises in Lebanon ‘a measure of justice’.”
These US war criminals are sponsoring a colonial genocide in Gaza and war of aggression on Lebanon.
The Hague has accused Israeli officials of crimes against humanity, and their crimes would not be possible without the weapons and support provided by the Biden administration. https://t.co/ehjuHdlo1Rpic.twitter.com/QYRHskvWMm
Journalist Ben Norton highlighted US complicity in the ongoing massacres in Lebanon and Gaza, saying “These US war criminals are sponsoring a colonial genocide in Gaza and a war of aggression on Lebanon.”
“The Hague has accused Israeli officials of crimes against humanity, and their crimes would not be possible without the weapons and support provided by the Biden administration,” he emphasized.
‘Exporters of Terrorism’
Richard Medhurst, another journalist, said on X “Most people on earth consider the US and Israel to be violent exporters of terrorism. Would you accept someone wiping out Biden or Netanyahu, along with several residential buildings?”
Most people on earth consider the US and Israel to be violent exporters of terrorism.
Would you accept someone wiping out Biden or Netanyahu, along with several residential buildings?
Westerners are so arrogant to think only they can do this?
Jill Stein, a Green Party politician and presidential candidate in the US, emphasized the involvement of Biden and Harris in facilitating Israeli actions in Lebanon that she characterized as genocidal.
Yesterday the US sent another $8.7B to Israel. Today Netanyahu said there's a "missile in every kitchen" in Lebanon and bombed a whole housing block in Beirut.
Biden and Harris aren't "working tirelessly for a ceasefire" – they're aiding and abetting mass murder and genocide. https://t.co/rK2kZBsS8j
“Yesterday the US sent another $8.7 billion to Israel. Today, Netanyahu said there’s a ‘missile in every kitchen’ in Lebanon and bombed a whole housing block in Beirut.”
“Biden and Harris aren’t “working tirelessly for a ceasefire” – they’re aiding and abetting mass murder and genocide,” she emphasized.
The United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) earlier reported that two ships had been attacked in the Red Sea.
The Drone Air Force of the Yemeni Armed Forces struck an Israeli military target in Tel Aviv on Tuesday using a Yaffa drone, spokesperson Brigadier General Yahya Saree announced.
In addition, the armed forces, affiliated with the Ansarallah movement, struck “military targets in the Umm al-Rashrash (Eilat) area” with four Samad-4 drones, said Saree.
?ANSARALLAH: We carried out two military operations with drones on Jaffa and Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash) and achieved their goals.
We targeted military sites in Eilat with 4 Samad 4 drones.
We bombed a military target of the Israeli enemy in Tel Aviv with a Jaffa drone. pic.twitter.com/kpDVjFfXkG
He said that by God’s grace, “both operations successfully achieved their objectives,” and commended “the steadfast fighters in Palestine and Lebanon for defending the nation as it faces Israeli-American aggression and their schemes aimed at subjugating all countries and peoples.”
“We affirm our active support for the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples until the aggression is defeated and its criminal plans and expansionist conspiracies are thwarted,” he added.
Earlier, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) reported that two ships had been attacked in the Red Sea. One was attacked by a missile, 97 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah, and the other was attacked 64 nautical miles northwest of the province.
Two Earlier Operations
On Friday, Saree also issued a video statement in which he detailed two significant military operations targeting Israel.
In the first operation, a hypersonic ballistic missile, Palestine-2, struck a military installation in Tel Aviv, according to Saree.
The second attack, using a Jaffa drone, reportedly hit a critical target in the Ashkelon area.
Saree confirmed that both operations successfully hit their intended targets, describing them as a response to Israeli aggression and in solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements.
He emphasized that further military actions against Israel would continue until the attacks on Gaza and Lebanon cease.
Ongoing Genocide
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.
Israel is currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians in the devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/7kfHeuQRSu
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 41,615 Palestinians have, to date, been killed, and 96,359 wounded. Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
A Hezbollah official denied that Israeli forces had entered Lebanon or that any direct clashes had occurred between the two sides, following the Israeli army’s claim that its soldiers were engaged in fierce battles with Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.
Hezbollah’s media representative, Mohammad Afif, dismissed the reports, stating, that “all Zionist claims that occupation forces have entered Lebanon are false,” and emphasizing that no ground confrontations have yet taken place between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
In an interview with Al-Jazeera, Afif warned that Hezbollah fighters are fully prepared to confront any Israeli forces that attempt to enter Lebanese territory.
He also highlighted that the recent bombing of the 8200 Military Intelligence Base and Mossad headquarters was just the beginning, vowing that Hezbollah would inflict “significant losses on any enemy forces trying to enter Lebanon.”
Meanwhile, CNN quoted an Israeli security official who stated that the size and capability of the forces involved were more suitable for a limited operation rather than a large-scale offensive like the one in Gaza, confirming no ground clashes had occurred between Israeli forces and Hezbollah.
The Washington Post also cited an Israeli official, confirming that there were no reports of ground clashes and adding that a major ground invasion into Lebanon was not under consideration.
? HEZBOLLAH MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICIAL, MOHAMMED AFIF (to Al-Jazeera):
?There has been no direct ground engagement yet between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces.
?All Zionist claims that the occupation forces entered Lebanon are false.
In contrast, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee tweeted on the X platform that fierce battles were taking place in southern Lebanon, advising residents to avoid traveling by vehicle from the north to the south of the Litani River until further notice.
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir also stated that the Israeli army was fighting under difficult conditions in southern Lebanon and stated, “This is the right time to defeat Hezbollah and return the northern residents to their homes,” according to Al-Jazeera.
The Israeli army previously announced that forces from the 98th Division, including commando and paratrooper brigades, along with the 7th Armored Brigade, were participating in operations in Lebanon.
However, the Reuters news agency also quoted an Israeli security official who reiterated that the forces involved were only executing limited operations and that no ground clashes with Hezbollah had been reported.
?الناطق بإسم الجيش الاسرائيلي يقول الان موجة عاصفة لضرب الضاحية الجنوبية وبرج البراجنة ويبدو ان عملية عزل الضاحية وبرج البراجنة عن العاصمة بيروت خلال ساعة
مما يسهل للجيش اللبناني إستلام العاصمة وإعلان الحكم العسكري لاحقا وتتفرغ إسرائيل لفلول الحزب pic.twitter.com/khFck7afkI
Hezbollah, in separate statements, announced that they targeted Israeli soldiers and equipment on Tuesday. They reported artillery and missile strikes against Israeli troops at the Matula site and near the Israeli settlement of Shtula, achieving direct hits.
Additional attacks on Israeli forces near the towns of Adaisseh and Kfar Kila were also claimed, with Hezbollah declaring these actions in support of the Palestinian people in Gaza and in defense of Lebanon.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli army announced the start of a ground military operation in Lebanon, with its spokesman confirming a concentrated operation in southern Lebanon.
Before the Israeli announcement, a Lebanese military source indicated that Lebanese army forces were repositioning near the southern border.
The Lebanese army later refuted media reports claiming its withdrawal from several kilometers of the southern border, calling the information inaccurate.
Additionally, a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General stated that the UN peacekeeping forces in Lebanon (UNIFIL) had been unable to conduct patrols due to the intensity of Israeli airstrikes and Hezbollah missile attacks.
Since the escalation between Hezbollah and Israel intensified in mid-September, Lebanese authorities report that over a thousand people have been killed in Lebanon.
Two Israelis were injured in a rocket attack that struck the Greater Tel Aviv area, Israel media reported.
The Lebanese movement Hezbollah announced in a statement on Tuesday morning that the launch was part “of the ‘Khaybar’ series of operations, and in response to the targeting of civilians and the massacres committed by the enemy”.
“With the call of ‘We are at Your Service O Nasrallah’, the fighters of the Islamic Resistance launched a barrage of Fadi-4 missiles at the Glilot base belonging to the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 and the Mossad headquarters located in the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
According to Channel 12, at least two Israelis sustained moderate injuries from rocket shrapnel that landed in Tel Aviv.
Israeli air defenses attempt to intercept rockets fired from Lebanon over Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/PCbbugKUeh
The channel also mentioned that fragments from intercepting missiles fell on Road, located north of Tel Aviv.
Additionally, the Israeli Fire Authority reported a fire breaking out after a rocket fell near Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority (KAN) stated that three missiles were launched from Lebanon toward the Greater Tel Aviv area, while Israeli media confirmed that a total of ten ballistic missiles were fired from Lebanon toward Tel Aviv.
In response, the Israeli military announced that millions of Israelis have sought shelter due to Hezbollah’s rocket fire from Lebanon. The Israeli army confirmed detecting and intercepting several missiles launched toward the Greater Tel Aviv region.
Early on Tuesday, the Israeli army announced that it had launched a concentrated ground military operation in southern Lebanon, targeting several villages near the border.
Lebanese authorities have reported over a thousand casualties since Israeli aggression on Lebanon intensified in mid-September.
According to initial report, several Israeli settlers were injured due to rocket fire from Lebanon aimed at central Israel. pic.twitter.com/h8eCAzFDdo
Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.
In recent weeks, however, the intensity of the fighting has increased, leading to concerns that an all-out war is imminent.
Israel has occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and has only left the country in 2000, following stiff Lebanese resistance under Hezbollah’s leadership.
Israel attempted to re-occupy Lebanon in 2006 but failed in what Lebanon considers a major victory against Israel.
Israel, however, continues to occupy parts of Lebanon, namely the Sheeba Farms region.
Hezbollah has vowed to recover every inch of Lebanon that has been occupied by Israel contrary to international law.
“Those 66% of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total.”
Around 66 per cent of the total structures in the besieged Gaza Strip have sustained damage in Israel’s ongoing military assault on the enclave, an analysis by the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT) revealed.
“This analysis, based on very high-resolution satellite imagery collected on 3 and 6 September 2024, shows that two thirds of the total structures in the Gaza Strip have sustained damage,” UNOSAT said about the ninth update of its assessment of the damage inflicted on buildings in Gaza, released on Monday.
UNOSAT compared imagery captured on September 3 and 6, 2024, with previous data, providing a comprehensive view of the evolution of the destructions.
The United Nations Satellite Centre (@UNOSAT) has released the 9th update of its assessment of the damage inflicted on buildings in the Gaza Strip.
66% of the total structures in the Gaza Strip have sustained damage.
“Those 66% of damaged buildings in the Gaza Strip account for 163,778 structures in total,” the organization said. “This includes 52,564 structures that have been destroyed, 18,913 severely damaged, 35,591 possibly damaged structures and 56,710 moderately affected.”
The most impacted region overall is the Gaza governorate, with 46.370 structures impacted. Gaza City has been notably affected, with 36.611 structures destroyed.
Crop Fields Damaged
UNOSAT, in collaboration with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), has also released an update on the health and density of cropland in the Gaza Strip.
“Approximately 68% of the permanent crop fields in the Gaza Strip exhibited a significant decline in health and density in September 2024,” the statement said.
Over this one year of conflict, UNOSAT said it has consistently provided humanitarian workers with up-to-date data to contribute to their situational awareness. This includes, for instance, road assessments, agricultural damage assessments, and detailed analysis of the level of damage inflicted on cultural heritage sites, and schools.
“Our objective analyses have been vital for humanitarian response efforts and improving the global community’s understanding of the conflict’s impact on civilian infrastructure,” said Nikhil Seth, UNITAR’s Executive Director.
The satellite imagery-based analyses conducted by UNOSAT document the widespread destruction and highlight the affected population’s need for support, UNOSAT said, adding that it will continue to closely monitor the situation and collaborate with humanitarian and development partners to respond to the crisis, and support affected populations.
Ongoing Genocide
Israel continues to defy a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, and has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 41,615 Palestinians have, to date, been killed, and 96,359 wounded in the ongoing genocide.
Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Famine and Starvation
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
Israeli warplanes targeted at dawn on Tuesday Al-Shejaiya school killing eight Palestinians and injuring many others.
The Israeli occupation forces targeted Al-Shejaiya school in the besieged Gaza Strip on Tuesday claiming the lives of seven displaced Palestinians and injuring many others, Al-Jazeera reported.
Al-Shejaiya school, which is a refuge for hundreds of displaced Palestinians, in the Tufah neighborhood was targeted by Israeli warplanes at dawn today.
The spokesperson for the Palestinian Civil Defense in the Gaza Strip, Mahmoud Basal confirmed in a statement the death and injury of Palestinians in the Israeli air raid on Al-Shejaiya school.
Earlier, medical sources at the Baptist Hospital in Gaza City reported that the Israeli raid killed six Palestinians and injured others, stating that some of the injured were in critical condition, before the death toll rose to seven.
Palestinian girls break down after the bombing of a nearby house in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/js4FHMO50u
According to data from the Government Media Office, the number of displacement and shelter centers targeted following this latest attack rose to 185 since the start of the genocide on October 7.
Al-Jazeera reported that earlier an Israeli raid that targeted a house west of Nuseirat camp killed 14 Palestinians.
Wide Condemnation
The United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres slammed Israel last month for imposing a ‘collective punishment’ on Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip stressing that nothing justifies it.
“It is unimaginable, the level of suffering in Gaza, the level of deaths and destruction have no parallel in everything I’ve witnessed since (becoming) secretary-general,” Guterres who assumed office in 2017 was quoted as saying by France 24.
While the UN chief deplored the Al-Aqsa Flood operation carried out by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on October 7, describing it as in “violation of international humanitarian law”, he nonetheless, criticized Israel’s handling of the war on Gaza.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/7kfHeuQRSu
Pope Francis on his part denounced last month the killing of Palestinian children by Israeli occupation forces labeling the targeting of schools for allegedly striking Hamas resistance fighters, as “ugly”, the Reuters news agency reported.
The Pontiff reportedly made the comments while on a flight back to Rome from Singapore voicing his skepticism over the parties’ desire to end the nearly one-year war. “They tell me ugly things, difficult things,” Pope Francis stated in reference to his conversations with the Catholic parish in the besieged Gaza Strip.
Gaza Genocide Continues
Flouting a UN Security Council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire, Israel has faced international condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza.
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 41,615 Palestinians have been killed, and 96,359 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 11,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli war has resulted in an acute famine, mostly in northern Gaza, resulting in the death of many Palestinians, mostly children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Later in the war, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians began moving from the south to central Gaza in a constant search for safety.
AAUP sent the Pennsylvania liberal arts college a letter demanding an answer in the absence of any public clarification from the academic institution regarding the decision to fire Finkelstein.
The Association of American University Professors (AAUP) took this week the case of Jewish anti-Zionist professor Maura Finkelstein requesting clarification from Muhlenberg College on its decision to fire her for “bias-related conduct” after a post on social media criticizing Zionists.
“Do not cower to Zionists”, Finkelstein wrote on Instagram.
“Shame them. Do not welcome them in your spaces. Do not make them feel comfortable. Why should those genocide-loving fascists be treated any different than any other flat-out racist. Don’t normalize Zionism. Don’t normalize Zionists taking up space,” she added.
The decision to fire the anti-Zionist professor has reportedly come following months of activism, which triggered complaints from Jewish and faculty members alike, leading to a federal Title VI investigation, MEMO reported.
Muhlenberg College’s firing of tenured, Jewish professor, Maura Finkelstein, is both anti-Palestinian and antisemitic.
They punished her for posting this @Remroum tweet.
AAUP sent the Pennsylvania liberal arts college a letter demanding an answer in the absence of any public clarification from the academic institution regarding the decision to fire Finkelstein.
“The dismissal raises serious concerns about academic freedom at Muhlenberg,” the letter read.
“In addition to extramural speech, Professor Finkelstein’s case presents additional issues of potential interest to our members and to the academic community at large,” AAUP senior program director, Anita Levy wrote in the letter to Muhlenberg President, Kathleen Herring.
She revealed that AAUP would be investigating Finkelstein’s case in more detail tackling a number of pivotal questions.
“These include whether expressions of opposition to Zionism or the government of Israel can be tantamount to anti-Semitism, discrimination and harassment of students; how compliance with equal opportunity requirements on a campus intersects with institutional policies governing academic freedom, due process and faculty governance; and the extent to which controversy stemming from the war in Gaza can affect campus conditions for academic freedom and due process,” she stated.
AAUP accused the college of “not following due process in firing a tenured professor,” according to MEMO.
1/ As Israel & the US continue genocide in Palestine/escalate ethnic cleansing in Lebanon, we must continue to fearlessly fight for liberation & unapologetically condemn & work to dismantle Zionism & all forms of fascismhttps://t.co/3UlVkEXcAL
The association revealed in its letter that an internal investigation at Muhlenberg College was conducted last May recommending the dismissal of Finkelstein “for just cause”, notifying her that her employment will be terminated on May 31, and a recent appeal of the decision was rejected, MEMO reported.
“If I can be fired for criticizing a foreign government, calling attention to a genocide and using my academic expertise as an anthropologist to draw attention to how power operates, then no one is safe,” Finkelstein said in a statement emailed to Inside Higher Ed website.
The professor continued: “I wasn’t fired for anything I said in the classroom. I was fired because of a charge brought by a student I had never met, let alone taught, who had been surveying my social media account for months,” MEMO reported.
“This isn’t about student safety, this is about silencing dissent. We are witnessing a new McCarthyism and we should all be terrified of its implications,” Finkelstein added.
The Jewish professor caught attention last year following the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7 when she wrote on social media “Students raising money for genocide” in reference to students at Muhlenberg raising money for the Jewish state.
Never forget: Zionism is a fascist white supremacist settler colonial ideology and none of us are safe until it is dismantled. We must all fight against this ongoing Israeli genocide of Palestine and ethnic cleansing of Lebanon in every way we can ????? pic.twitter.com/bsd5z2QD56
Following this, an online petition was created online by pro-Israeli Muhlenberg alumni requesting her dismissal.
The Change.org petition accused the professor of harassing pro-Israel students and alumni online, according to MEMO.
Finkelstein was suspended from Muhlenberg in January nearly at the same time the United States Department of Education launched a Title VI investigation into the college based on the online petition.
According to MEMO, the decision to dismiss the Jewish professor was based on her social media activity, particularly a post encouraging the “shaming of Zionists and rejecting the normalization of their views.”
A Muhlenberg panel found that Finkelstein’s behavior violated the school’s code of conduct and recommended her dismissal, MEMO said.
Thousands of Iranians gathered on Monday in Palestine Square in Tehran in protest of the Israeli aggression on Lebanon and in honor of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
The protesters who carried the Iranian, Lebanese and Palestinian flags along with Hezbollah banners and photos of Nasrallah, chanted anti-Israeli and anti-American slogans and denounced the Israeli attacks that claimed the life of Nasrallah and the senior commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Brigadier General Abbas Nilforoushan.
“Our only word is revenge,” protesters of all ages chanted while reciting elegies.
Iran vowed retaliation on Sunday following Israel’s killing of Nasrallah and Nilforoushan
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, in a statement, condemned the assassinations and announced that this act “will not go unanswered.”
“This heinous crime by the Zionist regime will not go unanswered,” Araghchi emphasized in his statement.
‘Master of Resistance’
On September 27, 2024, the Israeli army announced it had bombed Hezbollah’s central headquarters in Beirut, targeting the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah.
The next day, Hezbollah confirmed in a statement Nasrallah’s death, vowing to continue its resistance against Israel and to support Gaza and Palestine.
Hassan Nasrallah, the third Secretary-General of Lebanon’s Hezbollah, was born in 1960 and assumed leadership of the group on February 16, 1992, following the assassination of his predecessor, Abbas Musawi, by an Israeli missile strike.
The gathering of Iranians in Palestine Square in Tehran, the capital of Iran, to mourn the martyrdom of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah and support Hezbollah.
Various gatherings are being held throughout the provinces and cities of Iran. ?? ? pic.twitter.com/xnv1sDfkA0
Known as the “Master of Resistance,” Nasrallah pursued religious education in Shiite seminaries in Lebanon, Iraq, and Iran.
Under Nasrallah’s leadership, Hezbollah carried out significant military operations against Israel, culminating in Israel’s withdrawal from southern Lebanon in 2000 after a 22-year occupation.
He played a key role in the 2004 prisoner exchange with Israel, described as one of the largest swaps of prisoners and bodies, including prisoners from other Arab nations.
Border War
Since the start of the Israeli war on Gaza, on October 7, the Lebanese movement Hezbollah has engaged directly, but relatively in a limited way in the war against the Israeli occupation.
People in Iran's capital, Tehran, gathered to protest against Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah pic.twitter.com/NGz2BnBrUN
In recent weeks, however, the intensity of the fighting has increased, leading to concerns that an all-out war is imminent.
Israel has occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and has only left the country in 2000, following stiff Lebanese resistance under Hezbollah’s leadership.
Israel attempted to re-occupy Lebanon in 2006 but failed in what Lebanon considers a major victory against Israel.
Israel, however, continues to occupy parts of Lebanon, namely the Sheeba Farms region.
Hezbollah has vowed to recover every inch of Lebanon that has been occupied by Israel contrary to international law.
UNRWA’s Lazzarini revealed that the agency is $80 million short in its budget from now till the end of the year.
The Commissioner General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, revealed on Monday that the UN agency faces “grim” funding opportunities for the coming year.
At a press briefing in Geneva Lazzarini announced that UNRWA is short on $80 million in its budget from now till the end of the year, Anadolu news agency said.
“The forecast for 2025 is very uncertain, looks a little bit grim, because a number of donors have indicated that they will enter an austerity budget as from 2025,” UNRWA’s commissioner general indicated.
Lazzarini urged the UN member states to resist the attacks on the agency’s reputation.
The UN official labeled the nearly one-year-old Israeli war on the Gaza Strip as an endless nightmare.
“Gaza has become uninhabitable, its people face disease, death or hunger on a daily basis,” the Palestinian official news agency WAFA quoted him as saying.
“The people of Gaza are trapped in 10% of the land” constantly moving around in the Strip “in search of safety that they never found,” he added.
Lazzarini announced that 620,000 children live among the rubble of destroyed homes in Gaza, according to WAFA.
The commissioner general revealed that during his meetings in New York and Geneva, he asked the UN member states to make education “a collective priority that goes beyond life-saving activities.”
?1,640 people have been reportedly killed in #Lebanon since October 2023, with 1,030 in September 2024 alone.
?Over 346,000 have been internally displaced, a 64% increase since September 26.
Lazzarini told reporters that despite the immense challenges, the agency already started a month ago “to return some children to a learning environment.”
“We must never forget that the only asset that has never been taken away from the Palestinians is education. They have been deprived of several things over the past decades, but they have never been deprived of education, and education was essentially their source of pride,” he stressed.
As for the situation in the West Bank, Lazzarini said it is “a silent tragedy,” WAFA said.
As for the developments in Lebanon, the commissioner general revealed that UNRWA is already hosting 3,500 Palestinian, Lebanese and Syrians in its shelters in nine locations.
On the topic of UNRWA’s employee Fateh Sharif – killed along with his wife and two children in a targeted Israeli airstrike on his home in El-Buss camp in the south of Lebanon – who was mourned by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas as one of its leaders in Lebanon, Lazzarini stressed that Sharif was investigated and suspended earlier this year when the allegations of being part of Hamas surfaced in March.
Lazzarini told reporters that his “first decision” regarding Sharif was to suspend the employee and then launch an investigation into the matter.
Earlier this year, 16 UN Member States suspended funding for the agency, following Israeli allegations that UNRWA personnel were involved in the October 7 resistance operation.
A UN investigation has already closed five cases of allegations amid a notable lack of evidence given by Israel in support of its claims.
Lazzarini called on Member States to reach an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, “release all hostages” and increase the flow of humanitarian assistance. He also urged the safeguarding and support of UNRWA in order to “scale up service delivery” to Palestine refugees as well as to commit to multi-year financial commitments.
In July this year, Lazzarini said that “UNRWA is targeted because of its role in safeguarding the rights of Palestine Refugees, and because it embodies an international commitment to a political solution,” adding that “Failing to push back will leave other UN entities and international organizations exposed to similar attacks.”
Lazzarini emphasized that UNRWA “is the backbone” of the humanitarian response in Gaza.
Before the war, the agency met “70-80% of primary healthcare needs in Gaza.”
He highlighted that when the pledging conference was held last June “no one could have foreseen the tragedy that would engulf Israel and the occupied Palestinian territory.”
The Israeli army said it began its incursions in Lebanon.
Overnight, the Israeli army reportedly carried out eight raids targeting Beirut, in addition to numerous raids and shelling that targeted southern Lebanese towns.
Hezbollah said it carried out strikes at Israeli troops and artillery camps in various northern settlements and that it achieved direct hits.
Meanwhile, Israeli massacres in Gaza continued, as well as stiff Palestinian resistance.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry in Gaza, 41,615 Palestinians have been killed, and 96,359 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7, 2023.
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Wednesday, October 2, 09:45 am (GMT+2)
GAZA MEDICAL SOURCES: 57 people were killed in Israeli raids on different areas in the Gaza Strip since dawn.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a concentration of enemy forces and artillery positions south of Kiryat Shmona with a rocket barrage and caused casualties.
TASNIM: Iran had extended flight cancellations until 5 a.m. on Thursday.
ISRAEL’S CHANNEL 12: At least 100 homes in the central Israeli city of Hod Hasharon were damaged by the Iranian attack.
HOME FRONT (ISRAEL): Sirens continued to sound in Kiryat Shmona and towns in the Upper Galilee.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Israeli soldiers were wounded in shelling and exchanges of fire with Hezbollah near the border with Lebanon, adding that the soldiers were taken to Rambam hospitals in Haifa and Ziv in Safed in the Upper Galilee on Wednesday morning.
ISRAEL HAYOM: About 30 rockets had been fired at Metulla since the morning.
HOME FRONT (ISRAEL): Israel’s Home Front said sirens sounded in the western and upper Galilee, as well as in several cities and areas in northern Israel.
IRAN (Iranian Parliament Speaker): Iran’s next response to any aggression by Israel will be at a very different level.
REUTERS: Danish police say that two explosions occurred in the vicinity of the Israeli embassy in Copenhagen and are being investigated, noting that there are no reports of injuries from the explosions.
HEZBOLLLAH: We targeted Israeli forces in the settlements of Misgav Amam and Shatula with rockets and artillery and achieved direct hits.
AL-JAZEERA: Israel launched raids on the city of Nabatieh and the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon.
HEZBOLLAH: We struck an Israeli military gathering at the Shomera barracks with a rocket barrage and achieved a direct hit.
AL-MAYADEEN:
The Israeli occupation talks about the killing of a soldier in the ambush of Adaissa, but we confirm that the number of dead is much higher.
Israeli helicopters evacuated the dead and wounded soldiers coinciding with the firing of smoke bombs.
The resistance fired at the occupation forces from point zero, which led to the outbreak of large-scale clashes.
The occupation soldiers tried today to enter Al-Adaisseh, but when they reached the barbed wire strip, they fell into a tight ambush.
HEZBOLLAH: Our mujahideen targeted a gathering of Israeli enemy forces and artillery positions south of Kiryat Shmona with a number of rockets and achieved confirmed casualties.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sound in Shamir in the Upper Galilee.
Wednesday, October 2, 04:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-JAZEERA: The Israeli army targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut with nine raids in about two hours. The airstrikes targeted the areas of Hadath, Ruwais, Choueifat and Haret Hreik.
The Israeli occupation continues its raids on areas in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Three Israeli raids in Choueifat and Amrousiya in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
A fourth raid targets residential neighborhoods in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: SIX martyrs and many injuries in the occupation shelling of Al-Amal Institute for Orphans, which shelters displaced people west of Gaza City.
IRAN (The General Staff): The Iranian military attack achieved the required deterrence for Iran, and we hope that the Zionist entity and those who support it understood the message.
IRANIAN MEDIA: Our attacks hit the Mossad base, the Netzarim and Navatim air bases, radars and gathering centers for Zionist tanks.
IRANIAN MEDIA: Military has the capabilities to target the economic facilities of the criminal entity, but we only hit military bases.
IRAN (Chief of Staff of the Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Bagheri): We have gone through a difficult period of restraint since the assassination of Haniyeh in Tehran following repeated requests from the US side and its promises of a ceasefire in Gaza, but the situation is no longer bearable following the martyrdom of Sayyed Nasrallah and Brigadier General Nilfroshan.
IRAN (Army Commander-in-Chief Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi): The United States must receive an important message that if the Israeli entity continues its evil, it will be completely destroyed.
? The Iranian attack destroyed a number of F-35 warplanes in Nevatim air base. Missiles also destroyed F-15 warplanes in other bases like Hatzerim.
These planes, which were used to bomb the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives at in the last year, have… pic.twitter.com/6BoEOzmz8n
IRANIAN FM: Tehran will respond more strongly if Israel responds.
STANDARD AND POOR’S: Standard & Poor’s announced that it has downgraded Israel’s long-term credit rating from A+ to A with a negative outlook, due to increased security risks.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army announced the easing of the Home Front Command’s instructions regarding large gatherings in central Israel, after the conclusion of a meeting of the Security Cabinet.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army asked residents to evacuate a number of buildings in Haret Hreik in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
IRANIAN FM: Our move is over unless the Israeli regime decides to call for further response.
LEBANESE HEALTH MINISTRY: 55 people were killed and 156 others were injured in the Israeli raids that targeted the country yesterday, Tuesday.
Wednesday, October 2, 12:00 am (GMT+2)
AL-MAYADEEN: Nine Palestinians, including a child, were killed in the Israeli aggression that targeted displaced persons west of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: Targeting the artillery position in “Beit Hillel” with a rocket salvo.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Iranian missile in Beersheba caused damage to the electricity grid.
?ABU OBEIDA:
We congratulate the Iranian response that covered the entire geography of occupied Palestine and dealt a strong blow to the criminal occupation that thought that its rampage in the region and its aggression against its people could pass without punishment.
IRANIAN GENERAL STAFF: If the countries supporting the Zionist entity intervene, we will target their interests and headquarters in the region with force. The Zionist entity should expect the widespread and comprehensive destruction of its infrastructure if it responds to the attack.
KAMALA HARRIS: I will always work to ensure that Israel is able to defend itself against Iran. We will never hesitate to take any necessary action to defend our interests against Iran. Iran is a destabilizing force in the Middle East.
NETANYAHU: Iran made a big mistake tonight and will pay for it.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The death toll in Tel Aviv operation rises to 7.
Tuesday, October 1, 11:30 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: The perpetrators of the Tel Aviv operation infiltrated Israel, stabbed a soldier, seized his weapon and carried out the attack with his weapon.
HEZBOLLAH: Hatzarim, Nevatim and Ramon bases out of service after being severely damaged as a result of Iranian missile attack.
CHANNEL 12: 181 ballistic missiles launched from Iran.
? The Iranian attack destroyed a number of F-35 warplanes in Nevatim air base. Missiles also destroyed F-15 warplanes in other bases like Hatzerim.
These planes, which were used to bomb the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives at in the last year, have… pic.twitter.com/6BoEOzmz8n
Most of the bases targeted in Israel were hit directly, especially the airbases.
Most of the objectives of the strike were achieved according to the set plan.
Nevatim, Hatzerim, Tel Nof, Netzarim, and Glilot bases were targeted.
The scale of Israeli missile interception was weak.
It has been confirmed that there were significant casualties among Israeli soldiers
? The Iranian attack destroyed a number of F-35 warplanes in Nevatim air base. Missiles also destroyed F-15 warplanes in other bases like Hatzerim.
These planes, which were used to bomb the Gaza Strip and Lebanon with over 85,000 tons of explosives at in the last year, have… pic.twitter.com/6BoEOzmz8n
We congratulate the Iranian response that covered the entire geography of occupied Palestine and dealt a strong blow to the criminal occupation that thought that its rampage in the region and its aggression against its people could pass without punishment.
This is an exceptional day in the history of the struggle, in which the fires of the nation’s resistance crossed in the skies of Palestine, and Tel Aviv was exposed to the strikes of the fighters from Yemen, Lebanon, Palestine, and Iran. This is a call to all the free people of the nation to make a share in the liberation of Palestine.
?ABU OBEIDA:
We congratulate the Iranian response that covered the entire geography of occupied Palestine and dealt a strong blow to the criminal occupation that thought that its rampage in the region and its aggression against its people could pass without punishment.
IRANIAN PRESIDENT: The attack was in defense of our interests and our citizens.
Netanyahu should know that we do not seek war, but we will stand firmly against any threat.
BLINKEN: Israel effectively thwarted the Iranian attack with help from the United States.
SULLIVAN: There will be major repercussions from this Iranian attack. We closely coordinated with the Israelis to intercept the Iranian attack. We will consult with the Israelis on the next step.
IRGC: Iranian Revolutionary Guard missiles targeted 3 Israeli military bases. The Revolutionary Guards use hypersonic Fatah missiles for the first time.
YEDIOTH AHRONOTH (Citing Israeli army): Tonight we will bombard areas in the Middle East with force.
Tuesday, October 1, 9:40 pm (GMT+2)
IRGC: We targeted three military bases near Tel Aviv.
HAMAS: The Jaffa operation is a natural response to the war of extermination.
IRGC: The Revolutionary Guards have fulfilled their promises and this is the first wave. If the entity makes a mistake in its response calculations, our response will be stronger and more destructive.
KAN: Any decision taken after the Iranian attack would be considered dramatic and could lead to the outbreak of a regional war.
HAMAS: The Iranian response is a strong message to the Zionist enemy and its government on the path to deterring them and curbing their terrorism
CHANNEL 13: It was decided to turn the towns of Avivim, Tzfon and Malkiya in the Upper Galilee into a military zone in preparation for expanding the ground operation in Lebanon.
Tuesday, October 1, 9:00 pm (GMT+2)
GANTZ: “Iran has crossed the red lines again and we support working forcefully to strike it, it’s either them or us”.
CHANNEL 13: Netanyahu has been in a fortified underground location in Jerusalem for hours, along with a number of ministers. Defense Minister Galant is in an underground building at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv.
Dozens of Iranian rockets have struck Israeli Nevatim Airbase, located east of Beersheba in southern Israel. pic.twitter.com/hV6jYKpDzy
ISRAELI MEDIA: Preparations are underway for a “large-scale” Iranian attack targeting security facilities in Israel.
MSNBC: An Israeli military spokesman called on Iran via MSNBC to learn from what happened to Hezbollah and eliminate its leaders.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sounded in the greater Tel Aviv area of central Israel and West Bank settlements.
ISRAELI ARMY RADIO: Israeli Army Radio reported hearing an explosion in the greater Tel Aviv area. A rocket fell in an uninhabited area near Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv.
?ISRAELI MEDIA: Preparations are underway for a "large-scale" Iranian attack targeting security facilities in Israel. pic.twitter.com/WwHvEJIbJg
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A Palestinian child was injured by Israeli occupation bullets in Balata camp in Nablus in the West Bank.
ANSRALLAH: The military spokesman for Ansarallah, Yahya Saree, said that they carried out 3 military operations targeting 3 ships in the Red Sea.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The shooting in the central area a short while ago was from Lebanon.
HOME FRONT COMMAND: The Israeli Home Front Command issues instructions to settlers in the Gush Dan area in Tel Aviv to stay near shelters.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Dead and injuries in a bombing that targeted a group of citizens at the entrance to Al-Bureij camp in the central Gaza Strip.
Tuesday, October 1, 6:00 pm (GMT+2)
AL-MAYADEEN: The US Embassy calls on its employees and Americans in the occupied Palestinian territories to go to shelters immediately and until further notice.
LEBANESE MEDIA: End of rubble removal at the site of the Ain al-Delb massacre in Sidon committed by the occupation on Sunday. The final toll is 71 martyrs and 58 wounded.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Violent explosions at Golani Junction in Lower Galilee
AL-MAYADEEN: An Israeli raid targeted the outskirts of the city of Nabatieh.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Four ballistic missiles were launched from Lebanon and fell off the coast of the city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Four ballistic missiles were launched from Lebanon and fell off the coast of the city of Netanya, north of Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/SYacc9A49G
LEBANESE MEDIA: There was significant material damage as a result of the two Israeli raids on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
HEZBOLLAH: We fired a salvo of Fadi 4 rockets at the Sde Dov air base on the outskirts of Tel Aviv.
AXIOS (citing senior Israeli official): Israel believes that the Iranian attack on it will be carried out in the next few hours.
NETANYAHU: We are at the height of the confrontation with the Iranian axis and we will be united.
Tuesday, October 1, 5:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI ARMY SPOKESMAN: Washington informed us of an airstrike near Iran. We will deal with any air threat from Iran as we have done before and we are highly prepared.
BLINKEN: Our country is closely following events in the Middle East, and is committed to defending Israel.
WHITE HOUSE: We have indications that Iran is preparing to launch a ballistic missile attack on Israel soon.
CHANNEL 13: A state of high alert in Israel following the expectation of an attack from Iran.
Tuesday, October 1, 3:30 pm (GMT+2)
RUSSIAN FM: The Russian Foreign Ministry “strongly condemned the Israeli attack on Lebanon and called on Israel to “immediately cease hostilities.”
ISRAELI HOME FRONT COMMAND: Israel bans gatherings in open areas and buildings.
LEBANESE MEDIA: An Israeli raid targeted Al-Wad neighborhood, southeast of Baalbek city.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sounded in the north.
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a gathering of enemy forces in the settlement of “Kfar Giladi” with a salvo of Katyusha rockets.
Palestinian girls break down after the bombing of a nearby house in Jabalia refugee camp, north of Gaza. pic.twitter.com/js4FHMO50u
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Six Palestinians were killed as a result of the occupation bombing of a civilian vehicle behind the Austrian Towers, west of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Ben Gurion Airport may be closed and consultations will be held in this regard in the coming hours
HOME FRONT COMMAND: The Home Front Command tightens its instructions to residents of the center and Jerusalem, urging them to stay near protected areas.
Tuesday, October 1, 2:00 pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH MEDIA RELATIONS: We call on all media institutions, professional, union and legal groups, international and Arab, to condemn this blatant Zionist aggression and expose the criminal practices committed by the enemy against the media and journalists
LEBANESE MEDIA: An Israeli raid targeted the outskirts of the town of Kokba in southern Lebanon.
WASHINGTON POST (citing Israeli official): A broader ground incursion into Lebanon is not on the table. There were no reports of clashes between army forces that entered Lebanon and Hezbollah militants.
CNN (citing Israeli official): No clashes have occurred on the ground between the Israeli army and Hezbollah so far.
CHANNEL 12: 15 shells were fired from Lebanon towards Metulla in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Seven Palestinians, including a child and a woman, were killed when Israeli forces targeted a tent sheltering displaced people west of Khan Yunis city, south of the Gaza Strip. pic.twitter.com/7kfHeuQRSu
AL-MAYADEEN: Six Palestinians were killed and a number of wounded as a result of an Israeli drone targeting a tent sheltering displaced persons west of Khan Yunis city in the southern Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: Our fighters targeted a gathering of enemy soldiers between the positions of Al-Ramtha and Al-Samaqa in the occupied Lebanese Kfar Shuba Hills with 32 Katyusha rockets.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sounded in Kfar Giladi and Misgav Am in the Galilee Finger.
EGYPTIAN SPEAKER OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES: What is happening in Lebanon is a blatant violation of a sovereign state, which portends the possibility of the outbreak of comprehensive regional confrontations.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Three Palestinians were injured by occupation forces’ bullets west of Al-Nuseirat camp in the central Gaza Strip.
HEZBOLLAH: There is no truth to the false claims of the Zionist enemy about the presence of weapons or weapons stores in civilian buildings, including the Al-Sirat Channel building, which was targeted by shelling in the southern suburb yesterday.
Tuesday, October 1, 1:15 pm pm (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICIAL, MOHAMMED AFIF (to Al-Jazeera):
There has been no direct ground engagement yet between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces.
All Zionist claims that the occupation forces entered Lebanon are false.
The bombing of the 8200 Military Intelligence Base and the Mossad headquarters is just the beginning.
We will inflict the greatest losses on the enemy forces trying to enter Lebanese territory.
Our Mujahideen are ready to confront the enemy forces that dare or try to enter Lebanese territory.
? HEZBOLLAH MEDIA RELATIONS OFFICIAL, MOHAMMED AFIF (to Al-Jazeera):
?There has been no direct ground engagement yet between the resistance fighters and the occupation forces.
?All Zionist claims that the occupation forces entered Lebanon are false.
Since yesterday, the occupation forces have continued their artillery and phosphorous shelling of the areas and towns adjacent to the border, in light of the intensive flight of enemy drones and warplanes to cover some movements close to Lebanese territory for fear of being targeted at any moment.
What the resistance has been doing since yesterday is confronting attempts to penetrate, but inside the occupied territories, by targeting the gatherings around the sites and settlements before they move.
Tuesday, October 1, 12:50 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens in Matula near the border with Lebanon continue almost without stopping.
GAZA CIVIL DEFENSE: Our crews recovered a body from a house targeted by the occupation’s bombing in the Zaytoun neighborhood, and a woman is still missing under the rubble.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Injured in Israeli drone bombing that targeted a group of citizens in the Musbah area, north of Rafah city, south of the Gaza Strip.
ISRAELI MEDIA: The four soldiers who were injured during the clashes in Nablus are from the elite Duvdevan unit, and one of them is in critical condition
SECRETARY OF IRAN’S SUPREME NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL: Iranian support for Hezbollah will continue and that “the martyrdom of the party’s leaders will not disrupt its power.”
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army called on residents of a number of villages in southern Lebanon to “evacuate their homes and leave their villages immediately.”
UNIFIL: The Israeli army informed UNIFIL yesterday of its intention to carry out limited ground incursions into Lebanon. Any crossing into Lebanon constitutes a violation of Lebanese sovereignty and Resolution 1701.
Tuesday, October 1, 12:00 pm (GMT+2)
ISRAELI MEDIA: Ten ballistic missiles were launched from Lebanon towards Tel Aviv and northern Israel.
CHANNEL 12: Route 6 north of Tel Aviv was closed to traffic after a rocket fell on the road.
ISRAELI FIRE AUTHORITY: A fire broke out after a rocket fell near Kfar Saba, north of Tel Aviv.
According to initial report, several Israeli settlers were injured due to rocket fire from Lebanon aimed at central Israel. pic.twitter.com/h8eCAzFDdo
REUTERS (Citing Israeli official): The ground operation in Lebanon will be limited, and that the option of a broader operation targeting Beirut is not on the table.
HEZBOLLAH: We bombed a gathering of enemy soldiers near the Rosh Pina settlement.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Tel Aviv police ask residents to stay in shelters.
HEZBOLLAH: At your service, Nasrallah, we launched a salvo of Fadi-4 missiles at the Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 and the Mossad headquarters in the suburbs of Tel Aviv.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: Occupation helicopters fire on Al-Fakhari area, southeast of Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip.
?ANSARALLAH: We carried out two military operations with drones on Jaffa and Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash) and achieved their goals.
We targeted military sites in Eilat with 4 Samad 4 drones.
We bombed a military target of the Israeli enemy in Tel Aviv with a Jaffa drone. pic.twitter.com/kpDVjFfXkG
ISRAELI MEDIA: Explosions were heard in northern and northeastern Tel Aviv.
AL-MAYADEEN: A salvo of rockets was fired towards northern occupied Palestine.
AMBREY: The ship, which was involved in an incident 97 nautical miles off Hodeidah, Yemen, was damaged by an unmanned boat.
ANSARALLAH: We carried out two military operations with drones on Jaffa and Eilat (Umm al-Rashrash) and achieved their goals. We targeted military sites in Eilat with 4 Samad 4 drones. We bombed a military target of the Israeli enemy in Tel Aviv with a Jaffa drone.
Traffic congestion in Tel Aviv after Road 6 was closed due to a direct rocket strike from Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/oKL1o8wgic
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sounded in Metulla, Safed, Rosh Pina and several settlements in the Upper Galilee.
Tuesday, October 1, 10:00 am (GMT+2)
LEBANESE CIVIL DEFENSE: Nine people were killed and three were injured in an Israeli raid on the town of Daoudiya.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Lebanese army denied withdrawing from several kilometers of southern border posts, and the army explained that the military units deployed in the south are repositioning themselves at some forward observation points.
ISRAELI ARMY: The Israeli army said heavy fighting was taking place in southern Lebanon, and called on residents not to travel by vehicle from the north to south of the Litani River.
PALESTINIAN MEDIA: A young man was shot by the occupation forces in Balata camp, coinciding with military reinforcements heading towards the camp.
An Israeli air strike targeted the Palestinian Ain al-Hilweh Refugee Camp in South Lebanon, near the City of Sidon. pic.twitter.com/0toNQH0rUs
UKMTO: A vessel reported being attacked by a drone boat 64 nautical miles northwest of Hodeidah, Yemen.
BEN-GVIR: Israeli forces are currently fighting in difficult conditions in southern Lebanon. This is the right time to crush Hezbollah and return the residents of the north to their homes.
ISRAELI AMBASSADOR TO WASHINGTON: The US administration understood the nature of the operation in Lebanon and did not restrict us by time.
Tuesday, October 1, 9:00 am (GMT+2)
HEZBOLLAH: We targeted a movement of soldiers in the Metulla site with artillery shells and achieved direct hits.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sound in the settlement of Metulla.
YEMENI ARMED FORCES: An important statement at ten o’clock in the morning Sana’a time.
AL-MAYADEEN:
Eight killed in the town of Machghara as a result of an overnight raid on an ambulance center.
Cautious calm in Beirut after a night of eight raids on residential complexes in the southern suburbs.
ISRAELI MEDIA: Sirens sound in Avivim on the border with Lebanon.
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Protests continue in the US calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. (Image: Palestine Chronicle) 
Yayha Saree addresses the crowd in Sana’a. (Photo: video grab) 
Hezbollah’s media representative, Mohammad Afif. (Photo: via Al-Manar) 
Two Israelis were injured in a rocket attack that struck the Greater Tel Aviv area. (Photo: video grab) 
Massive destruction in Bureij, in the central Gaza Strip. (Photo: via QNN) 
Israel continues to carry out massacres against Palestinian civilians in Gaza.(Photo: via QNN) 
Jewish anti-Zionist professor Maura Finkelstein. (Photo: via Twitter @Dr_mauraf/X) 
Thousands gathered in Tehran to ask retaliation for Israel’s aggression on Lebanon and Nasrallah’s assassination. (Photo: via twitter) 
Philippe Lazzarini, the Commissioner-General of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), 
Iran launched hundreds of ballistic missiles towards Israel. (Photo: video grab) 
