War in the Middle East: what to remember from Saturday October 19

A drone targeted the private residence of the Israeli Prime Minister, without causing any casualties.

“Iran’s allies who attempted to assassinate me and my wife today made a regrettable mistake,” lambasted the Israeli Prime Minister on Saturday, October 19, after a drone targeted his private residence in Caesarea, in the center of the country, assuring that they “will pay a high price”. The Israeli army continued its strikes on Hezbollah in Lebanon, while the Lebanese Islamist movement targeted northern Israel. Here’s what to remember from the day.

Hezbollah targets northern Israel, Israeli Prime Minister’s residence targeted by drone

Hezbollah announced that it had targeted the Haifa region and a nearby military base in northern Israel, injuring five people from shrapnel, according to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross. The Lebanese team announced on Thursday that it had entered a “phase d’escalade” with Israel, with which it is now at open war. According to the Israeli army, northern Israel was the target of a barrage of around a hundred projectiles launched from Lebanon on Saturday morning. Furthermore, uA man died after being injured by debris from a rocket fired from Lebanon that exploded near Acre, in northern Israel, an area targeted by more than a hundred projectiles, the services announced Israeli relief supplies.

A drone was also launched towards the private residence of Benyamin Nétanyahou in Caesarea, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office announced. The army had assured earlier that a drone coming from the Lebanon had touched a “structure” from this coastal town in central Israel. “The Prime Minister and his wife were not there and the incident caused no casualties,” Benyamin Netanyahu’s services clarified. It was not clear whether the residence was the “structure in the Caesarea region” hit by a drone identified as coming from Lebanon that the army had mentioned earlier in the morning. The Israeli Prime Minister accused “Iran’s allies” to have “tent” to murder him and his wife.

Israel continues its strikes in Lebanon

The Israeli army also claimed to have carried out airstrikes targeting the Lebanese Islamist movement. “Airplanes carried out strikes against several Hezbollah weapons storage sites and a command center of Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters” in the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital, she announced. The Israeli army had called on residents of this neighborhood to evacuate the area.

The national information agency, for its part, announced that two “enemy strikes” had targeted a building in the Haret Hreik district. Four people were also killed in an Israeli strike on a town in eastern Lebanon, including the mayor of a neighboring village, the official Lebanese agency ANI reported.

The G7 says it is “concerned” by “threats” targeting UNIFIL

The G7 defense ministers said “concerned” par “threats” targeting the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) which accuses Israel of deliberately targeting its positions since the escalation of violence with the Lebanese Islamist movement last month. “The protection of peacekeepers is the responsibility of all parties in a conflict”specified in a joint statement the ministers of the Group of Seven (United States, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, United States, Japan) meeting in Naples, Italy.

The head of European diplomacy suggested strengthening the mandate of UNIFIL. “They cannot act autonomously, it is obviously a limited role. We could consider expanding this role but that requires a decision by the United Nations Security Council,” Josep Borrell told reporters at the G7 defense ministers meeting.

More than 400 dead in two weeks in Gaza, according to emergency services

More than 400 people, according to emergency services, were killed in two weeks in the north of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli army continues its offensive to crush Hamas, very weakened after a year of war and the death of its leader. . A bombing left 33 dead, according to Civil Defense, in Jabalia, a sector in the north of the Palestinian territory where Israel has been leading an air and land offensive since October 6, claiming that Hamas is seeking to reconstitute its forces there.

The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas is “alive and will remain so” despite the death of its leader Yahya Sinouar killed during an Israeli military operation, said the Iranian supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.