Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei has stated that the Zionists are too insignificant to inflict serious harm on the Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah.
The Israeli military claimed on Saturday that it killed Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, on Friday, although the group has yet to issue a statement on his fate.
Two people were killed and 76 injured in the Israeli air raid on Dahiyeh, the southern suburbs of Beirut, on Friday, according to Lebanon’s Ministry of Health. Israel has claimed it had targeted the main military headquarters of Hezbollah and It was not immediately clear if the group leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah was killed in the attack or not.
The Israeli government has announced a state of emergency across the occupied territories until Sept. 30 amid its escalating strikes on Lebanon and anticipated expansion of Hezbollah rocket firing toward Israel.
Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has stressed that pager and walkie-talkie blasts by Israel on Tuesday and Wednesday which killed 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000 in Lebanon are a declaration of war.
Israel’s domestic security agency says it has thwarted a plot by Hezbollah to assassinate a former senior defence official in the coming days. There was no immediate comment from the Lebanese group.
Israel’s Channel 13, citing an unnamed senior official, reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is planning to launch a major attack on Hezbollah in Lebanon soon.
American officials have warned Israel that US naval forces deployed in West Asia cannot stay there and protect Israel "forever", the Israeli Channel 13 reported on Friday.
A Hezbollah drone was suspected of infiltrating northern Israel and filming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's house in Caesarea, reported the daily Israel Hayom.
President Joe Biden has stated he expects Iran to hold off on possibly attacking Israel if a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal is reached in the next few days.
Israel has stepped up its strikes in Lebanon, killing a Hamas official in the coastal city of Sidon, as West Asia continues to anticipate Hezbollah’s retaliation for the assassination of its commander Fuad Shukr in Beirut earlier this month.
The Lebanese group Hezbollah may carry out an independent strike on Israel before Iran does, CNN has reported, citing sources familiar with the matter.
Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah launched a series of drone and rocket attacks into northern Israel on Tuesday but warned that its much-anticipated retaliation for the regime's killing of a top commander last week was yet to come.
Nearly 4,000 Israelis have been stranded abroad due to the suspension of international flights to Tel Aviv amid rising border tensions between Hezbollah and Israel and fears of Iran's attack, according to a report.
The main index of the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) fell to its lowest point since April at the start of weekly trading on Sunday, driven by fears of a potential war with Iran and Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah.
In a message to Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah, the commander of the Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hossein Salami, warned that “the enemies of the nation, especially the Zionist gang and its supporters”, should expect revenge from the resistance groups in West Asia for the assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has stated “Israel is at a very high level of readiness for any scenario – both defensively and offensively”, amid expectations of a response following the Beirut and Tehran attacks.
Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah has warned that Hezbollah will respond to Israel’s killing of the Lebanese movement ’s most senior military commander, Fuad Shukr, in a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs earlier this week.
The Lebanese movement Hezbollah has stressed that the assassination of head of the political bureau of Hamas resistance movement Ismaell Haniyeh will only strengthen the resistance front’s resolve.
Iran’s new President Masoud Pezeshkian has reassured senior Palestinian resistance leaders of Tehran’s policy of providing the regional resistance axis with consistent support.
Flights to and from Beirut airport were cancelled or delayed on Monday as tensions escalated between Israel and armed Lebanese group Hezbollah after a strike in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights killed 12 people.
