Scary fire bubbles they got up in the night to Dahiyecaravanserai of Hezbollah to South Beirut. Dozens of sequential explosions gutted buildings and reduced any structure in their path to dust Israeli missiles: in the morning, smoke still rose from the rubble, fires persisted all around. ‘The night of hell’, as residents of the Lebanese capital defined it, kept awake by the explosions and the earth shaking even from a distance. At the same time, further south, in the Gaza Stripa new deadly ground operation has begunIDF which surrounded thousands of militiamen Hamas hidden among the displaced people who returned to northern Gaza. The third front, theIranwe expect in the next few hours to see the specter raised by Yoav Gallant: «Anyone who thinks that a simple attempt to harm us will dissuade us from taking action should take a look at Gaza And Beirut», said the Israeli Defense Minister.
Iranian threats
There Islamic Republicwhich in the meantime has suspended all flights from tonight until tomorrow morning, flaunts confidence and sends word to Benjamin Netanyahu to «not play with fire», as the commander of the Italian Navy declared Pasdaran Alireza Tangsiri. Through the state agency Tasnim, Tehran He warned that «the plan for responding to a possible action by the Zionists has been fully prepared. If Israel acts, there will be an Iranian counterattack”, adding that the attack on October 1st “showed that theIran can raze any place to the ground.”
IDF operations and the Pentagon
Meanwhile the Pentagon he made it known that Gallant he will meet with the defense secretary on Wednesday Lloyd Austin in the United States, leading to speculation that the window for the operation in Iran must necessarily take place between Sunday night and Tuesday, or be postponed, since it is unlikely that a Defense Minister would cross the Atlantic in the midst of an announced “unprecedented” retaliation. Give it more USA excerpts of an interview with the vice president have arrived Kamala Harris which will be published in full by 20 Minutes: «When we think about the threat posed by Hamas, Hezbollah and fromIranI believe that it is undoubtedly our duty to do everything we can to enable Israel to defend themselves from this type of attack”, said the Democratic presidential candidate. And to the question if Benjamin Netanyahu be an ally, Harris he responded, “The best phrase is ‘we have a meaningful alliance between the American and Israeli people,’ and the answer to that question is yes.”
Netanyahu-Macron conversation
For his part, the prime minister somehow patched things up by telephone with the French president during the day Emmanuel Macronafter he appeared furious in a video posted on Saturday night X in which he urged him to “be ashamed”: today Netanyahu he explained his vision to him, certainly with less vehemence, but Macron – reported theElisha – while reaffirming that “France’s commitment to the security of Israel is unshakable” he reiterated that “the time has come for a ceasefire” a Gaza and in Lebanon.
Clashes between IDF and Hezbollah
Meanwhile, on the eve of the horrors of October 7, the commandos of theIDFwith the support of the air force, continued to destroy rocket launchers, weapons and tunnels Hezbollah in Lebanese territory. THE’Unifilthe peacekeeping force ofUN who presides over the blue line with the contribution of a thousand Italian soldiers, warned that Israeli operations near their positions are currently “extremely dangerous”. But further movements of the elite units have practically been announced through the new evacuation requests for civilians from 25 locations in Southern Lebanonindicating to head north of the river Awali. The militiamen aimed directly at the bay of Haifa with two ballistic missiles – intercepted – and with dozens of rockets on northern cities that have not yet been evacuated. While in the Gaza Strip the 162nd division moved from Rafah and from Philadelphia Corridoron the border withEgyptin the north to attack the militiamen of Hamas and of Islamic Jihad who in these months of clashes managed to rearm themselves, reaching the northern part of Gaza through the tunnels. At least 17 dead Jabalyiaaccording to the Palestinian Civil Protection, including 9 children. Among other things, a mosque and a former school were hit. The civilians were notified yesterday afternoon byIDF to move from the area. “The operation will continue as long as necessary,” the army said. Then in the evening came the statement from the chief of staff Herzi Halevi who, addressing the soldiers on the eve of October 7, stated “the military wing of Hamas she was defeated.” And he wanted to remember that Israel he is fighting a “long war, a war being fought for the right to be a free people”.
Maximum attention in Rome for October 7th, ghetto under the lens
Maximum attention tomorrow in Rome on the occasion of the first anniversary of the Hamas attack in Israel. The entire area of the ghetto will be under the spotlight where the commemorative ceremony will take place in the synagogue tomorrow morning in the presence of Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni. In the capital, security measures around sensitive targets of the Jewish community had already been further raised in recent days in light of the situation in the Middle East, the recent anti-Semitic episodes and the pro-Palestine marches announced close to the anniversary of 7 October.