🇬🇧 Monday 14/10/24 🇮🇱 Day 374🎗️HEADLINES from Israel

  • Four IDF soldiers were killed and another seven were seriously wounded and wounding around 67 people in Hezbollah’s drone attack targeting a military base near Binyamina https://lnk.sk/ikzu ; https://lnk.sk/ryz7 

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IRAN 🇮🇷

  • The recent missile attack by Iran from 1. oktober on Israel caused an estimated up to 200 billion shekels (up to $53 million) in damage to private property, according to Israel’s tax authority. This makes it the most expensive attack since the beginning of the war a year ago. https://lnk.sk/gmfk

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LEBANON 🇱🇧

  • ‚We will not allow Hezbollah to return here,‘ defense minister Yoav Gallant says on southern Lebanon, while assessing the situation in north. He stressed the importance of Hezbollah infrastructure elimination and securing conditions that would allow northern residents to return home. https://lnk.sk/drxc 
  • Head of the National Unity Party Benny Gantz and former minister-without-portfolio in Israel’s wartime government, called for extensive operations in Lebanon against Hezbollah. „The Hezbollah organization is a cancerous growth that has spread and trampled you over the years,” said Gantz. https://lnk.sk/erup
  • Over the past month, approximately 25 rockets and missiles were launched at Israel from Hezbollah terrorist compounds embedded near UNIFIL posts in southern Lebanon. One of these attacks resulted in the deaths of two IDF soldiers.  

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SAMARIA & JUDEA (so called West Bank), GAZA 

  • Hamas attempted to convince Iran and Hezbollah to join its October 7 attack on Israel, according to New York Times. Hamas launched the attack without waiting to get ahead of the deployment of Israel’s new air defense system and upset normalization efforts with Saudi Arabia. https://lnk.sk/ophx 
  • Hamas had plans reportedly dated many years before October 7 to conduct a 9/11-style (knocking down a Tel Aviv skyscraper, along with the use of trains, boats, and chariots) attack on Israel intended to be far deadlier than the October 7, 2023, according to a Washington Post. https://lnk.sk/byx0 

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USA 🇺🇸 EU 🇪🇺

  • Washington will send an advanced air defense battery to Israel to protect the country in case of an Iranian reaction to an expected Israeli reprisal attack. A US defense official said around 100 US troops would be deployed to operate the system. https://lnk.sk/ryrs
  • Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Monday urged other members of the EU to respond to Madrid and Ireland’s request to suspend the bloc’s free trade agreement with Israel over its actions in Gaza and Lebanon https://lnk.sk/elet 

Source: The Jerusalem Post, The Times of Israel and the sources cited in each report 

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