- Yom Kippur known as Day of Atonement, the holiest day of the year for the Jews begins for Hebrew Year 5785 today at sundown on Friday, 11 October 2024.
- Israel’s security cabinet convened tonight and was expected to authorize PM Netanyahu and Defence Minister Gallant to initiate the response against Iran, two officials tell New York Times. https://lnk.sk/jdgu
IRAN 🇮🇶
- Gulf states will not open its airspace to a possible Israeli attack and are lobbying Washington to stop Israel from attacking Iran’s oil sites because they are concerned their own oil facilities could come under fire from Tehran’s proxies if the conflict escalates, three Gulf sources tell Reuters. https://lnk.sk/bnpb
- Iranian IRGC commander Ismail Qaani is allegedly being detained by the Iranian regime under suspicion of spying for Israel. His bureau is accused of passing intelligence to Israel. The investigation aims to uncover the extent of this infiltration, Channel 14 reported. https://lnk.sk/fgyi
LEBANON 🇱🇧
- Two people were killed in a rocket attack on the border town of Kiryat Shmona, as Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel and military forces aimed heavy air and ground fire at the Lebanese terror group. https://lnk.sk/gmb2
- Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon: “We have no intention of being in southern Lebanon. We are there because Hezbollah and Hamas started a war against us. To the Lebanese people, I say – the land of Lebanon belongs to you, not the Iranians.”
SAMARIA & JUDEA (tzv. Západný breh), GAZA
- Israel says it killed the head of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group in the Nur Shams refugee camp in the central West Bank in an airstrike yesterday. https://lnk.sk/fzpu
- IDF eliminated at least 12 terrorists in a strike on a command-and-control centre embedded within an area that previously served as a medical compound in Jabaliya in the Gaza. Large quantities of weapons were stored inside the command-and-control centre.
USA 🇺🇸
- U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris: “There is a need to de-escalate the situation in the Middle East, a region that has been ‘on edge’ for months during the war between Israel, Gaza, and Lebanon.”
- The US is aiming to use Israel’s offensive against Hezbollah as an opportunity to push aside the Iran-backed Lebanese terror group on the path to installing a new Lebanese government, US and Arab officials familiar with talks on the matter told the Wall Street Journal https://lnk.sk/wkqu
Source: Israel Realtime, The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and SAFI News (unless otherwise stated)
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