Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to deliver sermons and lead Friday prayers today. His address could shed light on the Islamic republic’s plans after a massive missile attack on enemy Israel.
Israel said it hit Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the Lebanese capital, Beirut on Friday late Thursday. The Israel Defense Forces claimed to have killed Hezbollah leader Mahmoud Yusef Anisi. According to the Israeli military, Anisi was “a senior terrorist involved in Hezbollah’s precision-guided missile manufacturing chain in Lebanon.”
In the wake of the escalated conflict, Sky News Arabia cited sources as saying that Hashem Safieddine, the head of Hezbollah’s executive council and the frontrunner to succeed Hassan Nasrallah, was targeted in Israel’s latest strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs. Meanwhile, Israel’s Channel 12 reported that the “unusual” attacks in the suburb were aimed at “Nasrallah’s successor.”
Moreover, the Israeli military also said early on Friday that it killed Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi, the head of the Hamas network, in a strike on West Bank’s Tulkarm. Meanwhile, several explosions were heard in Israel’s Tel Aviv.
The tensions escalated between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah ever since pager and walkie-talkie explosions marred Hezbollah, followed by Iran launching a barrage of missiles towards Israel. US president Joe Biden recently said, “I don’t believe there is going to be an all-out war. I think we can avoid it.”
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04 Oct 2024, 12:19:30 PM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Iran’s nuclear facilities on Israel’s target?
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Israel is likely to mount a large-scale airstrike against Iran’s oil industry and possibly a symbolic attack on a military target related to its nuclear programme, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak was quoted by the Guadian as saying.
04 Oct 2024, 11:49:44 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Ayatollah Khamenei expected to deliver sermons during Friday prayers, huge crowd gathers
A large number of people have gathered outside Imam Khomeini’s Grand Mosalla in Tehran, where Ayatollah Khamenei is expected to deliver sermons during Friday prayers.
04 Oct 2024, 10:09:13 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Israeli strike kills 9 in Beirut
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says at least nine people have been killed in an Israeli strike in central Beirut. Meanwhile, the Israeli military said a total of nine Israeli soldiers have been killed since the army started limited ground incursions in south Lebanon to battle Hezbollah militants earlier this week. Hezbollah says it has killed 17 Israeli soldiers, but has provided no proof.
04 Oct 2024, 10:04:21 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Middle East tensions drive oil prices
Oil prices are headed for their largest weekly rise in over a year on Friday, spurred by escalating Middle East tensions that have cast a pall over global markets ahead of the weekend. Brent crude futures were set to gain around 8% for the week – its steepest since February 2023, while U.S. crude futures’ 8.2% weekly rise would be the largest since March last year, Reuters reported.
04 Oct 2024, 10:00:35 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Video shows ‘extensive destruction’ from Israeli bombings in southern Beirut
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: A video shared by Tehran Times show “the extensive destruction from the intense Israeli bombings in southern Beirut, which targeted the residential buildings in the Marija area, the vicinity of a hospital, a police station, and a football field.”
04 Oct 2024, 08:28:05 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Operation targeting Hezbollah’s new leader, Hashem Safieddine, successful, says Israel
An Axios reporter citing two Israeli officials as saying that the target for the Israeli strike in Beirut was Hezbollah senior leader Hashem Safi a-Din, who was Hassan Nasrallah’s likely successor.
04 Oct 2024, 08:23:19 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Biden says we can avoid ‘all-out’ war
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Asked how confident he was that such a war can be averted, US president Joe Biden paused and told reporters: “How confident are you it’s not going to rain? Look, I don’t believe there is going to be an all-out war. I think we can avoid it.”
He added: “But there is a lot to do yet, a lot to do yet.” When asked if he would send American troops to help Israel, he responded: “We have already helped Israel. We are going to protect Israel.” (Inputs from Reuters)
04 Oct 2024, 08:21:12 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Israel extends evacuation warnings in Lebanon
The Israeli military on Thursday warned people to evacuate communities in southern Lebanon that are outside a U.N.-declared buffer zone, signaling that it may widen a ground operation launched earlier this week against the Hezbollah militant group, the Associated Press reported.
04 Oct 2024, 08:16:30 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: PM Modi chairs Cabinet Committee on Security meet
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: PM Modi is chairing a Cabinet Committee on Security meet amid West Asia crisis.
04 Oct 2024, 07:51:46 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: At least 18 killed in Tulkarem airstrike
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: At least 18 people were killed in an Israeli military strike in Tulkarm refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian officials were quoted by the Guardian as saying.
04 Oct 2024, 07:37:05 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: ‘No action going on right now’, says Biden
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: When asked why he had not spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in recent days after he said he would on Sunday, US President Joe Biden was quoted by the Guardian as saying: “Because there’s no action going on right now.” Asked if he worried an Israeli strike on Iran’s oil facilities would raise oil prices, he said, “If a hurricane hits, prices are going to go up. I don’t know; who knows.
04 Oct 2024, 06:54:56 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Israel says it killed head of Hamas network in strike on West Bank’s Tulkarm
The Israeli military said early on Friday it killed the head of the Hamas network in a strike on West Bank’s Tulkarm. In a statement, the military identified the Hamas operative as Zahi Yaser Abd al-Razeq Oufi.
04 Oct 2024, 06:53:28 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Several explosions heard in Israel’s Tel Aviv
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Several explosions were heard in Israel’s Tel Aviv,. Tehran Times reported.
04 Oct 2024, 06:47:16 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Iran may hold commemoration ceremony of Hassan Nasrallah today
Iran’s Ali Khamenei is likely to performing Friday prayer in Tehran and hold the commemoration ceremony of Hezbollah leader Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah in Imam Khomeini mosque in Tehran.
04 Oct 2024, 06:41:01 AM IST
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: Israel kills Hezbollah leader Mahmoud Yusef Anisi
Israel-Iran war Live Updates: The Israel Defense Forces claimed to have killed Mahmoud Yusef Anisi. According to the Israeli military, Anisi was “a senior terrorist involved in Hezbollah’s precision-guided missile manufacturing chain in Lebanon.”
“Anisi joined Hezbollah over 15 years ago and was one of the leaders of the Hezbollah PGM campaign in Lebanon. He was a significant source of knowledge with many technological abilities in the field of weapons manufacturing,” the IDF said in a post on X early Friday.