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Hezbollah threatens to increase attacks if IDF offensive in Lebanon continues
Hezbollah threatens Israel with more attacks if its offensive in Lebanon continues, after a drone attack on a base near Binyamina in central Israel killed four soldiers and injured 51 others.
The Iran-backed terror group “promises the enemy that what it witnessed today in southern Haifa is nothing compared to what awaits it if it decides to continue its aggression against our noble and dear people,” it says.
Two hospitals in northern Gaza receive new supplies from WHO, Red Cross
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, says late Sunday that a WHO-Red Cross operation had managed to resupply two hospitals in northern Gaza.
“WHO and partners finally managed to reach Kamal Adwan and Al-Sahaba hospitals yesterday after 9 attempts this past week,” he posts on X.
.@WHO and partners finally managed to reach Kamal Adwan and Al-Sahaba hospitals yesterday after 9 attempts this past week:
– 13 critical patients from Kamal Adwan hospital were transferred to Al-Shifa hospital. The hospital is overwhelmed and still serving around 60 in-patients… pic.twitter.com/jSmdC93dtP
— Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (@DrTedros) October 13, 2024
IDF says four soldiers killed, seven seriously wounded in Hezbollah drone strike
A military helicopter is seen after evacuating people wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, October 13, 2024 (Flash90)
Four IDF soldiers were killed in the Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday evening near Binyamina, according to the military. Seven soldiers were seriously injured.
The families have been notified, says the IDF.
In total, 58 soldiers were hurt in the strike on the military base, including 9 who were moderately hurt. The rest were lightly injured.
Initial probe: Drone was tracked but dropped off radar, was assumed to have crashed
Medical teams seen at Sheba Medical Center in Ramat Gan after evacuating wounded people from a Hezbollah drone attack, October 13, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
According to an initial investigation of the drone strike near Binyamina, Hezbollah launched two drones that entered Israeli airspace from the sea, The Times of Israel has learned. They were Mirsad drones, known in Iran as the Ababil-T. The model is Hezbollah’s main suicide drone.
According to the Alma Center, an Israeli research institute focused on security challenges in the north, the drone has “a 120-kilometer assault range, a top speed of 370 kilometers per hour, the capacity to carry up to 40 kilograms of explosives, and the ability to fly at altitudes of up to 3,000 meters.”
Both were tracked by Israeli radars, and one was shot down off the coast north of Haifa. Sirens sounded in the western Galilee area.
IAF planes and helicopters pursued the second, but it dropped off the radar and Israeli forces lost track of it, likely because it flew very close to the ground. No siren sounded because the assumption was that it had crashed or been intercepted once it disappeared.
The drone ended up striking near Binyamina, injuring almost 70 people.
Rockets target Haifa, interceptions seen above the city
Rockets were launched at Haifa a short time ago.
Interceptions are seen above the city.
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IDF says Hezbollah has fired rockets and missiles from beside UNIFIL posts
Around 25 rockets and missiles were fired at Israeli towns and forces by Hezbollah from next to UNIFIL posts over the past month, the IDF says. One of the attacks launched from next to a UNIFIL position killed two IDF soldiers, according to IDF Arabic language spokesman Avichay Adraee.
“The IDF maintains constant contact with UNIFIL forces and will continue to take all necessary measures to avoid harming UNIFIL forces in the area, and will continue to do so despite the complex situation,” Adraee writes on X.
The 146th Division found hundreds of weapons, including rockets aimed at Israel, located “within dozens to a few hundred meters of UNIFIL positions located close to the Blue Line,” he says.
Families of of hostages mark year since October 7 with foreign diplomats
Ex-hostage Aviva Siegel speaks at the Hostages Families Forum on October 13, 2024. (Screenshot)
Families of of hostages mark one year since October 7 with foreign diplomats at the headquarters of the Hostages and Missing Families Forum in Tel Aviv.
Opposition leader Yair Lapid thanks the ambassadors present for standing with the families behind the scenes and on the world stage.
“It sometimes felt like you cared more than the government of Israel,” he says.
US embassy deputy chief of mission Stephanie L. Hallett says her effort on the hostage negotiations has been “life-changing work” that began one year ago on October 8, first accounting for those US citizens brutally murdered by Hamas, and then those taken hostage.
“We want the families to know that we carry the stories of your loved ones with us,” says Hallett. “This is not just work that we do, because it’s part of us.”
Her words are echoed by UK Ambassador Simon Walters and German Ambassador Steffen Seibert, who speaks in a mixture of Hebrew and English and says that the ambassadors have failed the hostage families, and must ask themselves if they have really tried everything.
“It’s been a quiet few weeks [on the hostage front],” says Seibert, noting Israel’s current focus on battles with Hezbollah in Lebanon. “We must be willing to search for new ways. Nothing should be taboo.”
Ex-hostage Aviva Siegel speaks with anguish about her experiences in Gaza, as she struggles to get her husband Keith released.
She asks people to imagine themselves as hostages.
“You have to vanish and not feel,” she says, describing a young girl who has never been touched and who finds herself assaulted by a Hamas terrorist. “If hostages coming back dead wasn’t enough to wake up the world, then what do we need to do?”
Siegel is echoed by Orly Gilboa, mother of Daniella Gilboa, who turned 20 in the tunnels of Gaza.
Gilboa asks the audience to recall being 20 years old, and how their parents reacted when they were merely late getting home.
“Try to imagine how I feel for over a year,” she says. “Act as if you are saving your own child.”
Israeli official denies report IDF was instructed to curb attacks in Beirut
An Israeli official says reports that Israel’s political leadership told the IDF last week to curb or halt attacks in Beirut are “entirely false.”
“Israel maintains freedom of action all across Lebanon,” says the source, “depending on the location of the targets.”
Rocket sirens sound in northern border communities
Rocket sirens have sounded several times in northern communities in the past hour, including in Kiryat Shmona, Manara, Metula, Margaliot and more.
There are no reports of damage or casualties.
Iran’s president urges end to Israeli ‘crimes’ in call with Macron
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian calls for an end to “crimes” in Lebanon and Gaza in a phone call with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, the Iranian presidential website says.
They discussed ways to secure a “ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel,” a statement on the website says, adding that Pezeshkian “asked the French president to work together with other European countries to force the Zionist regime to stop the genocide and crimes in Gaza and Lebanon.”
Macron calls on Iran’s president to back Mideast “de-escalation.”
Reports: IDF hasn’t hit Beirut in recent days following Biden request
US President Joe Biden speaks during a briefing in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on October 1, 2024, in Washington, DC. (Saul Loeb/AFP)
Kan news and Ynet report that under political instructions, the IDF has not carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in Beirut in the past three days.
Ynet says US President Joe Biden had asked Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to curb strikes in the Lebanese capital when the two spoke last week.
Number of wounded in the drone attack rises to 67
The number of wounded in the drone attack in the Binyamina area has risen to 67, according to medics.
The number of critically wounded remains at four, with five seriously injured and 14 moderately hurt.
Most were taken to Hillel Yaffe Medical Center in Hadera. Others were taken to Sheba Hospital in Ramat Gan, Rambam Hospital in Haifa, and Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva.
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Senior Hezbollah official: ‘Capabilities of resistance still strong’
A senior Hezbollah official tells Al Jazeera that the group attacked near Binyamina with “a squadron of suicide drones.”
“The capabilities of the resistance are still strong and capable of reaching Israel’s rear,” says the official.
Report: Hezbollah fired 3 drones at Israel — one hit, causing mass casualty event
Hezbollah fired 3 drones at Israel tonight, according to Channel 12.
Two were fired together: One was shot down near Haifa, while the other struck a gathering of Israelis near Binyamina.
A third drone was shot down over the sea off Haifa, says the IDF.
Report: Israel offers stiff demands for Lebanon ceasefire
Channel 12 reports on Israel’s demands for a ceasefire in the north.
According to the unsourced report, any cessation of hostilities depends on:
1. Enforcement of UN Resolution 1701 that would push Hezbollah away from the border, including disarmament of Lebanese militias.
2. International oversight to prevent rearmament of Hezbollah, with a focus on the Syrian-Lebanese border.
3. Israel must maintain the ability to act throughout Lebanon when it identifies threats, including limited pinpoint ground operations.
Air force intercepts another drone from Lebanon off northern coast
The Israeli Air Force has intercepted a drone fired from Lebanon off Israel’s northern coast, the IDF says.
It comes shortly after another drone strike in central Israel caused dozens of casualties.
Official says Israel ‘always trying’ to progress toward hostage deal with Hamas
Israel is “always trying” to make progress toward a hostage release deal with Hamas, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
The country “is always in conversation” with the US and Arab mediators about attempts to move forward, says the official.
“The problem is that [Hamas leader Yahya] Sinwar refuses,” he argues.
Israel has been trying to reach agreement on minor issues with Hamas in order to make progress, the official says. He says it even proposed a preliminary, smaller deal in order to build trust.
“Sinwar hoped there would be an escalation with Hezbollah that would save him. Now he’s waiting to see what happens after Israel strikes Iran.”
Hezbollah airs audio recording from slain leader Nasrallah
Hezbollah airs an audio recording of its slain leader Hassan Nasrallah just over two weeks after an Israeli air strike killed him in southern Beirut.
“We count on you… to defend your people, your families, your nation, your values, and your dignity, and to defend this holy and blessed land and this honorable people,” said Nasrallah, who was killed on September 27, in a recording Hezbollah says was made as he addressed the Iran-backed terror group’s fighters during a military maneuver.
40 people said wounded in Hezbollah drone strike
Channel 12 reports that 40 people were wounded in the drone strike in the Binyamina area.
According to Magen David Adom, 4 are in critical condition, 5 in serious condition, and 14 in moderate condition. The rest are lightly hurt.
All have been evacuated to hospitals.
Despite drone strike, Home Front Command relaxes instructions for parts of north
Just as a drone strike from Lebanon caused over 20 casualties in central Israel, the Home Front Command relaxes its instructions for parts of northern Israel.
The southern Golan moves from “limited activity level” to “partial activity level.”
Further south, the areas of Afula, Mount Tabor, the Gilboa mountain range, the Beit Shean Valley, Megiddo, and Yokneam move to “full activity level, with a limitation on gatherings and services of up to 2,000 people,” says the army. The Wadi Ara region, where the Hezbollah drone struck, also moves to a full activity level.
It remains unclear how the drone incident will affect the new guidance.
IDF says UNIFIL incident occurred as wounded troops were evacuated under fire
After UNIFIL said IDF forces entered one of its posts in southern Lebanon and fired smoke shells that caused illness among peacekeepers, Israel admits that those incidents took place, but says they occurred during attempts to evacuate wounded IDF soldiers under fire.
Troops came under “massive anti-tank fire” earlier today, says the IDF. Two soldiers were seriously hurt, and several more were lightly or moderately injured.
From an initial investigation, says the IDF, “it appears that during the incident, and for the evacuation, two tanks reversed in a spot where they couldn’t have gone elsewhere because of the threat of fire, several meters into a UNIFIL position.”
“After firing ended and the evacuation of the wounded was completed, the tanks left the position.”
UNIFIL says the tanks were there for 45 minutes.
The IDF adds that smoke screens were laid down to assist the evacuation. “The IDF maintained continuous contact with UNIFIL. Throughout the entire incident, there was no danger to UNIFIL forces from IDF operations.”
Over 20 people injured, some critically, as Hezbollah drone strikes Binyamina area
A Hezbollah drone strike near Binyamina in central Israel has injured over 20 people, according to medics.
Magen David Adom head Eli Bin says three people are in critical condition, five are in serious condition, and some 14 are in moderate condition.
Ambulances and air force helicopters are evacuating the wounded.
Channel 12 says apparently two drones headed toward Israel. Air defenses shot one down over the sea, but the second impacted.
No sirens were heard ahead of the attack. The military is investigating.
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Israel not trying to pressure UNIFIL to leave combat areas using force — official
There is no Israeli directive to pressure UNIFIL to leave combat areas in southern Lebanon using military force or threats, an Israeli official tells The Times of Israel.
UNIFIL has accused IDF troops of firing on positions, entering a base, and firing smoke shells near a base.
“These are mistakes,” says the official, “and they are being investigated.”
“We are trying to get UNIFIL to leave through diplomatic pressure.”
US confirms it will send THAAD air defense battery, soldiers to Israel
In this image courtesy of DVIDS, a US Air Force Airmen offloads a THAAD launcher from a C-17 GlobeMaster III at Nevatim Air Base, Israel for an exercise, March 1, 2019. (Robert DURR / DVIDS / AFP)
The US confirms it will send an air defense battery and American soldiers to Israel.
“At the direction of the president, [Defense] Secretary Austin authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery and associated crew of US military personnel to Israel to help bolster Israel’s air defenses following Iran’s unprecedented attacks against Israel on April 13 and again on October 1,” the US Defense Department says in a statement. “The THAAD Battery will augment Israel’s integrated air defense system.”
The deployment “underscores the United States’ ironclad commitment to the defense of Israel, and to defend Americans in Israel, from any further ballistic missile attacks by Iran,” says Washington. “It is part of the broader adjustments the US military has made in recent months, to support the defense of Israel and protect Americans from attacks by Iran and Iranian-aligned militias.”
Each battery consists of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 interceptors, radio and radar equipment, and requires 95 soldiers to operate.
The THAAD is considered a complimentary system to the Patriot system, but it can defend a wider area. It can hit targets at ranges of 150-200 kilometers (93-124 miles).
Pope Francis says UNIFIL peacekeepers should ‘be respected’
Pope Francis urges UNIFIL peacekeepers “to be respected.”
Writing on X, the pontiff says, “I am close to all the populations involved, in Palestine, Israel, and Lebanon, where I ask the United Nations peacekeeping forces to be respected.”
He also calls for an immediate ceasefire.
“Brothers and sisters, war is an illusion,” he writes. “It is a defeat, and it will never bring peace or security. War is a defeat for everyone, especially those who believe themselves to be invincible. Stop, please.”
Meanwhile, UNIFIL head Lt. Gen. Aroldo Lazaro visits Italian soldiers “who came under IDF fire.”
“I am fiercely proud of their courage and commitment,” says the Spanish general.
Peacekeepers in south Lebanon are working under harsh conditions. Yesterday I was able to visit Italian peacekeepers whose position has come under IDF fire and seen intense clashes between IDF and Hizbullah forces nearby. I am fiercely proud of their courage and commitment. pic.twitter.com/7CNaubxNeC
— Aroldo Lázaro (@aroldo_lazaro) October 13, 2024
IDF says reserve division has killed over 100 Hezbollah operatives in past week
As it operates in southern Lebanon, the 146th Division has killed over 100 Hezbollah terror operatives during the past week, according to the IDF.
The reserve formation is fighting near the coast, on the western edge of the IDF advance into southern Lebanon. Footage from the IDF’s operations shows tangled vegetation on the area’s hills.
According to the military, the 146th Division has found dozens of shafts leading to tunnels, bunkers, and fighting positions. More than 50 Hezbollah rocket launchers and 60 command centers were also destroyed.
The division is made up of brigade combat teams from the 2nd, 205th, 300th and 646th Brigades.
Troops from the IDF's 146th Reserve Division operate on the western edge of the IDF push into southern Lebanon. (IDF video) pic.twitter.com/uWTndl5TGt
— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) October 13, 2024
Gallant says Israel will ensure terrorists do not return to Lebanon border villages
91st Division Commander Brig. Gen. Shai Klepper (L) speaks with Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (2L) as they tour the northern border, October 13, 2024. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant tours Israel’s border with Lebanon and pledges that Israel will never let Hezbollah reestablish its presence there.
“These are military targets containing underground tunnels and weapon storages,” he says of Lebanese villages nearby. “Our troops found hundreds of RPGs, munitions and anti-tank missiles here. The IDF is currently destroying these weapons above and under the ground.
“I have instructed the IDF at all levels to ensure the destruction of [attack infrastructure] and to ensure that terrorists cannot return to these places,” he continues, according to his office. “This is essential in order to ensure the safety of Israel’s northern communities.”
Gallant says operations will continue until Israel’s goals are achieved.
UNIFIL says IDF troops entered their position and made demands, fired harmful substance
Vehicles of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) patrol in Marjeyoun in southern Lebanon amid the ongoing war between terror group Hezbollah and Israel, October 11, 2024. (AFP)
Two IDF tanks entered a UNIFIL position at 4:30 a.m. and demanded that the base turn out its lights, the UN peacekeeping force says in a statement. They left after 45 minutes.
Two hours later, rounds landed about 100 meters from the camp, emitting smoke that caused skin irritation and gastrointestinal reactions to 15 UNIFIL troops.
On Saturday, IDF troops stopped a UNIFIL logistical convoy near Meiss El Jabal and denied it passage, UNIFIL says.
“We have requested an explanation from the IDF for these shocking violations,” it says.
The IDF does not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Gantz urges Lebanese people to free themselves from ‘cancerous tumor’ of Hezbollah
National Unity MKs Benny Gantz (L) and Gadi Eisenkot (2R) meet with Karmiel Mayor Moshe Koninsky (C) during a tour of the north on October 13, 2024 (Courtesy)
National Unity party chief Benny Gantz urges the Lebanese people to free themselves from the “cancerous tumor” of Hezbollah and the “chokehold” the Iranians have placed on their country.
Speaking during a tour of northern Israel, the former war cabinet minister calls on leaders to “continue and expand” the ground operation in Lebanon in order to allow displaced residents of the region to return, before making a direct appeal to Israel’s northern neighbors.
“I want to address the residents of Lebanon and the Lebanese government. The real problem doesn’t lie in southern Lebanon, but in Beirut. Hezbollah is a cancerous tumor within you that has been allowed to fester and overrun you. The time has come to take care of that cancer,” he says.
“Israel will take care of Hezbollah militarily, but this is also your time to loosen the chokehold Iran has put you in, for the sake of your social, political, and economic freedom and prosperity.”
In a further message directed to the international community, Gantz states that now “is the time to exert pressure on Beirut, not Jerusalem.”
Iran indirectly warns US forces against operating in Israel
Iran warns the US to keep its military forces out of Israel.
The comments came in a post on X associated with Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, who helped reached Iran’s 2015 nuclear deal with world powers.
In the message, Araghchi refers to the United States potentially sending one of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense systems to Israel. Any move of one of the systems, known by the acronym THAAD, to Israel would involve the deployment of soldiers to operate the complex system.
“The US has been delivering record amount of arms to Israel,” the X message reads. “It is now also putting lives of its troops at risk by deploying them to operate US missile systems in Israel.”
It adds: “While we have made tremendous efforts in recent days to contain an all-out war in our region, I say it clearly that we have no red lines in defending our people and interests.”
Italian PM tells Netanyahu attacks on UN peacekeepers unacceptable
Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni arrives for an informal EU leaders summit in Brussels, on June 17, 2024. (Nick Gammon/AFP)
IDF attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon are unacceptable, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni tells Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a phone call, according to Rome.
Meloni’s office says she called for the “full implementation” of UN Security Council Resolution 1701 that ended the 2006 Lebanon war and de-escalation.
Two Italian peacekeepers were injured by IDF fire last week, Italy says, and Israel’s ambassador was summoned to the Italian Defense Ministry in the wake of the incident.
The IDF has said it fired at a threat to troops near UN forces and is investigating why they were hit.
Netanyahu earlier called for UNIFIL peacekeepers to leave combat areas in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s PM condemns Netanyahu’s demand for UNIFIL withdrawal
This handout picture provided by the Lebanese Prime Minister's press office shows Lebanon's caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati delivering a statement to the press in Beirut on October 11, 2024. (Photo by Lebanese Prime Minister's Press Office / AFP)
Lebanon’s Prime Minister condemns his Israeli counterpart’s call to UN chief Antonio Guterres to remove international peacekeepers from the Lebanese side of the border, where clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli troops have intensified.
Lebanon “condemns (Benjamin) Netanyahu’s position and the Israeli aggression against UNIFIL” peacekeepers, says Najib Mikati. “The warning that Netanyahu addressed to… Guterres demanding the removal of the UNIFIL represents a new chapter in the enemy’s approach of not complying with international” norms, he adds.
In a first, SpaceX ‘catches’ megarocket booster after test flight
SpaceX successfully “catches” the first-stage booster of its Starship megarocket as it returns to the launch pad after a test flight, a world first in the company’s quest for rapid reusability.
After blasting off minutes earlier while attached to the Starship rocket, the “super heavy booster” made a picture-perfect controlled return to the same pad in Texas, where a pair of huge mechanical “chopsticks” reached out from the launch tower to bring the slowly descending booster to a halt, according to a livestream from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
“Folks, this is a day for the engineering history books,” a SpaceX spokesperson says in a voiceover on the company’s livestream, after the booster is safely in the tower’s grasp and company staffers erupt in cheers.
“The tower has caught the rocket!!” SpaceX founder Musk posts on X.
Some 25 soldiers said injured today in Lebanon, 2 of them seriously
Some 25 IDF soldiers were injured today in ground operations across southern Lebanon, according to Kan news.
Two of the soldiers were seriously injured, and the rest were lightly hurt.
There is no official word on the matter from the army as of yet.
Saudi Arabia pans Israeli plan to turn UNRWA’s Jerusalem HQ into apartments
Saudi Arabia condemns “in the strongest terms” Israel’s decision to turn the Jerusalem headquarters of the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency into apartments.
Last week, the Israel Land Authority said it was preparing plans to turn the Ma’alot Dafna complex into 1,440 housing units, after telling UNRWA it must evacuate the premises.
The Saudi Foreign Ministry notes in an English-language statement “the Kingdom’s rejection of the continued blatant Israeli violations of international laws and resolutions…and its systematic political and military targeting of the United Nations agencies and its relief organizations.
“The Kingdom also rejects the continued endangerment of the lives of relief workers, expressing its support for UNRWA in its humanitarian mission to provide relief to Palestinian refugees.”
Israel has long pushed for UNRWA’s closure, arguing that it helps perpetuate the conflict with the Palestinians, and has stepped up such efforts since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attacs.
Repeat rounds of rocket sirens in northern border towns
Repeat rounds of sirens sound in a number of communities close to the northern border as the area comes under sustained rocket attack from Lebanon.
Netanyahu says IDF dismantling ‘Hamas strongholds’ in north Gaza’s Jabaliya
Smoke plumes billow behind as people gather in the balcony corridors of the Rafei school serving as a displacement shelter in Jabaliya for Palestinian refugees in the northern Gaza Strip on October 9, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the military is pressing operations in northern Gaza’s Jabaliya.
“Our brave soldiers are now in the heart of Jabaliya, where they are dismantling the Hamas strongholds,” says Netanyahu in a video statement issued by his office.
The IDF recently launched a fresh ground offensive to prevent the terror group from reestablishing itself in north Gaza.
Funerals to be held in both Iran and Iraq for IRGC general killed alongside Nasrallah
In this photo provided by Fars News Agency, Iranian Revolutionary Guard Gen. Abbas Nilforoushan addresses a meeting in Tehran, Iran, February 5, 2024. (Elaheh Javan, Fars News Agency via AP)
Iran and Iraq will both stage funerals for Revolutionary Guard General Abbas Nilforoushan, killed in an Israeli airstrike alongside Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, the Guards’ news agency says.
Nilforoushan, a top commander in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force foreign operations arm, was killed on September 27 alongside Nasrallah in the strike on south Beirut.
The IRGC said Friday his body had been recovered from the site of the strike on the Lebanese capital’s southern suburbs, a Hezbollah stronghold.
Funeral ceremonies will be held in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Monday before the body is transferred to Iran’s holy city of Mashhad, the Sepah news agency says.
Another ceremony will take place at Tehran’s Imam Hossein Square on Tuesday before burial Thursday in the central city of Isfahan, his hometown, Sepah says.
IDF calls on residents of 21 more villages in south Lebanon to evacuate
The Israel Defense Forces call on civilian residents of 21 more villages in south Lebanon to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River amid intensified fighting against Hezbollah.
“The IDF has no intention of harming you. For your own safety, you must evacuate your homes immediately and move immediately to the north of the Awali River,” IDF Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee writes on X. “To ensure your own safety, you must evacuate without delay.”
“Anyone who is near Hezbollah operatives, facilities or weapons is putting their life in danger,” Adraee warns.
Map of south Lebanon showing the location of the Litani and Awali Rivers, and localities where residents were told by the Israeli army to evacuate between Oct 1 and 4 (AFP / Nalini LEPETIT-CHELLA AND Paz PIZARRO AND Sylvie HUSSON AND Olivia BUGAULT)
Gantz blasts reported CBS News refusal to say Jerusalem is in Israel: ‘The eternal capital of the Jewish people’
A view of the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, some of the holiest sites for for Jews and Muslims, is seen in Jerusalem's Old City, December 6, 2017 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
National Unity leader Benny Gantz pushes back after employees at CBS News were reportedly told by a senior executive not to refer to Jerusalem as being in Israel.
“Jerusalem’s status is clear and undisputed – the eternal capital of the Jewish people,” Gantz writes on X. “It has been so for millennia, and will always remain so. No attempt to distort or hide that reality will change it.”
CBS News’ senior director of standards and practices, Mark Memmott, made the comment on the status of Jerusalem in an August email to staff on “controversial” terms, the Free Press newsletter reported last week.
“Yes, the US embassy is there and the Trump administration recognized it as being Israel’s capital. But its status is disputed,” Memmott wrote. “The status of Jerusalem goes to the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Israel regards Jerusalem as its ‘eternal and undivided’ capital, while the Palestinians claim East Jerusalem—occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war—as the capital of a future state.”
The revelation about the instruction to staff at CBS came amid a growing controversy over host Tony Dokoupil’s pointed interview with author Ta-Nehisi Coates about Israel.
The seven-minute morning show interview on September 30 was about Coates’s new book of essays, and Dokoupil zeroed in right away on a section about Israel and Palestinians in the West Bank, saying the essay “would not be out of place in the backpack of an extremist.” He wondered why Coates’s writing did not include references to Israel being surrounded by enemies that want to eliminate it.
Dokoupil later asked Coates about what offended him about the existence of a Jewish state, and he said that Palestinians “exist in your narrative merely as victims of Israel,” as if they had not been offered peace at any juncture.
Coates said that he was offended when anyone — including the Palestinians who talked to him for his book — are treated as second-class citizens in the country where they live, comparing it to the Jim Crow-era United States where his ancestors grew up.
CBS News leaders reprimanded Dokoupil for the interview, although the outgoing head of Paramount Global, the parent company of CBS, later said it had been a mistake to do so.
Dokoupil, who is Jewish, has two children from a previous marriage who live with their mother in Israel.
Rocket sirens sound in Galilee towns
Rocket sirens sound in multiple towns in the Galilee region of northern Israel as the area apparently comes under attack.
Iran has ‘no red lines’ when it comes to self-defense, foreign minister says
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi speaks to the press after meeting with Syrian officials at the Iranian embassy in Damascus on October 5, 2024. (Louai Beshara/AFP)
Iran has “no red lines” when it comes to defending its people and interests, Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says in a post on X, as the region braces for an Israeli strike following Iran’s recent ballistic missile attack.
US officials believe Israel has narrowed down targets in its response to Iran’s recent missile attack to military and energy infrastructure, NBC reported yesterday.
There is no indication that Israel will target nuclear facilities or carry out assassinations, the report said, citing unnamed US officials, adding that Israel has not made a final decision about how and when to act.
Israel has said that Iran’s attack of some 200 ballistic missiles on the country nearly two weeks ago would “have consequences.”
PM: UN must withdraw south Lebanon peacekeepers from combat zone, Hezbollah using them as human shield
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls on UN to withdraw peacekeepers from south Lebanon on October 13, 2024 (Screen grab/GPO)
The tensions between Israel and the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon continue to escalate, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calling for the UNIFIL soldiers to be withdrawn from combat areas.
Addressing UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, Netanyahu says in a Hebrew-language message, “It is time for you to withdraw UNIFIL from Hezbollah strongholds and from the areas of combat.”
“The IDF has repeatedly asked for this, and has been met with repeated refusals, all aimed at providing a human shield to Hezbollah terrorists,” says Netanyahu.
“Mr. Secretary General, get the UNIFIL forces out of harm’s way. It should be done right now, immediately,” Netanyahu says in English.
UNIFIL says the IDF has hit a number of UNIFIL posts, including the headquarters at Naqoura. UNIFIL soldiers have been lightly injured in the incidents.
“Your refusal to evacuate the UNIFIL soldiers makes them hostages of Hezbollah,” says Netanyahu. “This endangers both them and the lives of our soldiers.”
Netanyahu says Israel “regrets the injury” to the peacekeepers, and that Israel is doing whatever it can to prevent that happening.
“But the simple and obvious way to ensure this is just get them out of the danger zone,” says Netanyahu.
The prime minister says European leaders should be criticizing Hezbollah, not Israel, for using UNIFIL as a “human shield.”
Herzog at Yom Kippur War anniversary ceremony: ‘Lessons have not been learned’
President Isaac Herzog speaks at a ceremony to mark the anniversary of the 1973 Yom Kippur War, October 13, 2024 (Haim Zach/GPO)
At a ceremony marking the anniversary of the Yom Kippur War, President Isaac Herzog says that while more than 50 years have passed since the 1973 conflict, it appears that the lessons from that war, which were “burned into our flesh” have “not been learned.”
“Again we made a mistake in conception” and “once again we did not listen to the junior field ranks, to those who performed their work with dedication and warned us,” he declares.
This failure “once again cost us a painful and heavy blood price” and it is incumbent on us “to investigate deeply and widely, in a reliable, uncompromising and independent manner, to draw lessons and draw conclusions,” he continues — calling it a “moral” duty to work bring home the hostages “with the same determination with which we worked for the return of our captives in the Yom Kippur War.”
Government approves 2nd national day of mourning for Oct. 7, marking attack on Hebrew calendar date
Transportation Minister Miri Regev holds a press conference ahead of the state ceremony commemorating the October 7 Hamas attack, at the Ministry of Transport and Road Safety in Jerusalem, August 22, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The cabinet approves a second national day of mourning for the October 7 attack in accordance with the Hebrew calendar, which will be marked with a state ceremony organized by Transportation Minister Miri Regev.
The additional day of mourning will be held on the 25th of the Hebrew month of Tishrei (October 27-28), three days after the annual Simchat Torah holiday on which the Hamas attack took place last year.
According to Hebrew media reports, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Isaac Herzog and other senior dignitaries will participate in the ceremony, only weeks after the nation first marked the first anniversary of the attack.
The second official day of mourning will also be marked by special programs at schools and in the military, the lowering of flags to half staff and the closure of entertainment venues.
Families of hostages and other October 7 victims had strongly objected to Regev’s appointment to oversee this past week’s official state ceremony marking the first anniversary of the Hamas-led onslaught, with several Gaza border communities accusing the government of using the official ceremony as a fig leaf to avoid responsibility for its role in failing to prevent the terror massacres, and for not doing enough for the communities in the aftermath.
Rocket sirens sound in Kiryat Shmona, surrounding towns
Sirens in Kiryat Shmona and surrounding towns warn of a rocket attack from Lebanon.
Former Beatle Paul McCartney attends Yom Kippur services in Chile alongside wife
English musician Sir Paul McCartney performs as part of his 'Got Back' tour, at the Centenario stadiium in Montevideo on October 1, 2024. (DANTE FERNANDEZ / AFP)
Former Beatle Paul McCartney attended Yom Kippur synagogue services in Chile alongside his wife Nancy Shevell, photos and video on social media show.
The music legend is seen wearing a kippah at the house of worship in Santiago. He is in South America as part of his “Got Back” tour.
You say goodbye, and I say hello (to the Jewish new year).
Spotted: Sir @PaulMcCartney at Yom Kippur Services in Chile.
Gmar Chatima Tova 💙pic.twitter.com/bfdsfpLMK4
— Israel ישראל (@Israel) October 13, 2024
According to the Jewish Chronicle, McCartney and Shevall have previously attended services at St John’s Wood Liberal Synagogue in London, close to the famed Abbey Road Studios.
Music critic Seth Rogovoy has suggested McCartney has displayed a half-century “love affair with all things Jewish — including collaborators, business associates, girlfriends and wives.”
His first marriage was to Linda Eastman, the granddaughter of Russian-Jewish immigrants to the United States. The couple had four children and were together until her death from breast cancer in 1998.
In 2011, four years after their romance first became public, he married Jewish businesswoman Shevell.
2 IDF soldiers seriously injured by anti-tank missile fire in south Lebanon
A reservist IDF soldier from the 6th Brigade’s Battalion 9220 was seriously injured in southern Lebanon today, the IDF says.
In a separate incident, an officer attached to the battalion was also seriously hurt in battle.
Both were hurt by Hezbollah anti-tank missile fire.
The IDF says both were brought to the hospital, and their families were updated.
IDF troops capture Hezbollah fighter in underground bunker, take him to Israel for interrogation
IDF forces in southern Lebanon capture a Hezbollah fighter in an underground bunker.
According to the IDF, troops identified a tunnel shaft inside a building leading to a 50-square-meter room some seven meters underground. The terror operative was hunkered down in the bunker, which also held weapons and supplies for an extended stay underground.
Video shows IDF troops instructing the Hezbollah fighter in Arabic to climb slowly out of the bunker, wearing only his underwear and shoes.
According to the IDF, the operative was taken to a detention facility inside of Israel for interrogation.
IDF troops in southern Lebanon uncover a Hezbollah bunker 7 meters underground, with a Hezb fighter hiding inside. He surrenders, and according to the IDF, is taken to a detention facility inside of Israel. pic.twitter.com/2A6IkBXQEx
— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) October 13, 2024
IDF warns evacuated south Lebanon residents not to return home: ‘These are dangerous combat zones’
Troops operating in south Lebanon in an image released for publication by the military on October 13, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
IDF Arabic-language spokesman Col. Avichay Adraee posts a message telling evacuated residents of southern Lebanon to “refrain from traveling south and returning to your homes or olive groves. These are dangerous combat zones.”
“We remind you that the war and intensive raids against Hezbollah are still ongoing,” says Adraee on X. “For your safety, please follow the instructions.”
IDF tanks reach north edge of Gaza City amid renewed push against Hamas, residents say
Palestinians transport their belongings as they flee areas north of Gaza City on October 12, 2024 (Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Israeli forces widened their raid into northern Gaza, and tanks reached the north edge of Gaza City, pounding some districts of the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, residents say, forcing many families to leave their homes.
Residents say Israeli forces have effectively isolated Beit Hanoun, Jabalia and Beit Lahiya in the far north of the enclave from Gaza City, blocking access between the two areas except upon their permission for families willing to leave the three towns, heeding evacuation orders.
The IDF recently launched a fresh ground offensive in north Gaza to prevent Hamas from reestablishing itself.
Israel estimates that tens of thousands of Palestinians have remained in northern Gaza throughout the last year of fighting, despite repeated calls for them to evacuate to designated humanitarian zones. It believes that among those who remained there are thousands of Hamas operatives who survived previous rounds of fighting with Israeli forces.
To that end, the IDF issued new evacuation orders over the weekend to two neighborhoods on the northern edge of Gaza City, saying that the area was a “dangerous combat zone.” It urged residents to evacuate their homes and head to safe areas in the south.
The Hamas-run interior ministry, however, instructed civilians to ignore the call to relocate to other areas in the north of the Strip, and also to avoid heading south “where the occupation is conducting continued bombing and killing every day in the areas it claims to be safe.”
The IDF has for years accused Hamas of using human shields and embedding its operatives deep within the civilian population to protect itself amid fighting with Israel, and says that it seeks to avoid civilian casualties.
Gallant to Austin: Hezbollah using south Lebanon UNIFIL posts as cover to open fire
A United Nations flag flies in the back of one of the armored vehicles of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) during a patrol around Marjayoun in south Lebanon on October 8, 2024. (AFP)
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant accused Hezbollah of using UNIFIL posts as cover in his conversation last night with his American counterpart Lloyd Austin, according to the Israeli readout.
Gallant told Austin that the incidents in which peacekeepers were injured were under investigation, and accused Hezbollah of firing from the vicinity of UNIFIL posts intentionally.
Gallant “emphasized that while facing this significant operational challenge, the IDF will continue to take measures to avoid harm to UNIFIL troops and peacekeeping positions,” according to Gallant’s office. Austin’s office said he expressed “deep concern” over the incidents.
Gallant also briefed Austin on Israel Defense Forces operations in Lebanon.
The two “discussed ongoing defensive activities in the face of threats posed by Iran and its proxies, primarily Iranian militias in Yemen, Syria and Iraq,” says Gallant’s office.
Notably, neither the US nor the Israeli readouts of the call mention Israel’s planned response to Iran’s ballistic missile attack earlier this month.
Gallant was supposed to fly to Washington last week to discuss Israel’s plans with Austin, but that trip has been postponed until he is given the green light by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Iran blasts ‘illegal and unjustified’ US sanctions in wake of missile attack on Israel
Illustrative: A picture taken on March 12, 2017, shows an oil facility in the Khark Island, Iran, on the shore of the Gulf. (ATTA KENARE / AFP)
Iran condemns what it calls an “illegal and unjustified” expansion of US sanctions targeting its oil industry following Tehran’s missile attack on Israel earlier this month.
In a statement, foreign ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei defends Iran’s attack on Israel and “strongly condemned” the sanctions, saying they were “illegal and unjustified.”
IDF says troops pressing Jabaliya offensive, found Gaza launcher that fired rockets at Ashkelon on Yom Kippur
Troops operate in the Gaza Strip in a photo released for publication on October 13, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
Over the past day in the Gaza Strip, the 162nd Division continued fighting in Jabaliya in northern Gaza, says the Israel Defense Forces.
Across the Strip, IDF forces attacked around 40 Hamas targets, and killed dozens of enemy fighters. They also located explosives and other weapons, including the launcher that fired rockets at Ashkelon over Yom Kippur.
The Gaza Division is operating in the southern Gaza Strip. They killed “a number of terrorists” over Yom Kippur, says the IDF, including a Hamas squad armed with an RPG-type rocket.
IDF says it hit 200 Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon over past 24 hours
Troops from the 36th Division operate in southern Lebanon in a photo released for publication on October 13, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
The 36th Division directed air force strikes against Hezbollah rocket launchers, anti-tank positions, and weapons caches in southern Lebanon overnight, the IDF says.
The division also killed dozens of Hezbollah fighters, the IDF says.
Overall, the Israeli Air Force struck around 200 Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and deeper into the country in the last 24 hours, according to the army. Those targets include Hezbollah cells, rocket launchers, command posts, and fighting positions.
Rocket sirens in Acre, Nahariya and surrounding communities
Sirens sound in Acre, Nahariya and surrounding communities to alert residents to incoming rocket fire.
The Israel Defense Forces said yesterday that over 300 rockets were fired from Lebanon at northern Israel over the course of Yom Kippur.
IDF says five rockets fired at Haifa area, all intercepted; no injuries
Five rockets were fired from Lebanon in the recent barrage that triggered sirens in Haifa and other northern communities, the Israel Defense Forces says.
All the projectiles were intercepted by air defenses, the military says.
The Magen David Adom emergency service says there are no reports of injuries.
IDF: Troops found Hezbollah weapons stashed in Lebanese civilian homes for use in potential invasion
Troops operating in south Lebanon in an image released for publication by the military on October 13, 2024 (Israel Defense Forces)
Operating in southern Lebanon, the 8th Brigade Combat Team and the elite LOTAR counter-terror unit uncover dozens of weapons warehouses in civilian homes, the IDF says.
Footage released by the army shows a cache of mortar shells –- some originating in Israel — mines, Kalashnikov rifles, magazines, and combat vests.
The army says they also found Kornet anti-tank missiles, and that the caches were meant for Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force as they suited up for an invasion of northern Israel.
The troops, who conducted significant operations against Hamas in Gaza over the past year, are operating under the 91st Division on the eastern edge of IDF ground operations in southern Lebanon.
“The forces conduct face-to-face battles, eliminate terrorists and destroy terrorist infrastructure that Hezbollah has deployed along the border,” according to the IDF.
The brigade found tunnel infrastructure inside one of the villages, including living quarters for Hezbollah fighters.
The IDF says that the team has killed “many” Hezbollah fighters by directing airstrikes from the ground.
IDF troops from the 8th Brigade Combat Team uncover a Hezbollah tunnel in a village in southern Lebanon, acc to the IDF. pic.twitter.com/Zjfky0G903
— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) October 13, 2024
IDF footage of one of the many Hezbollah weapons warehouses uncovered in civilian homes by the 8th BCT.
(Note the mortar shells with Hebrew writing on the case) pic.twitter.com/Z4T5mOnRPG
— Lazar Berman (@Lazar_Berman) October 13, 2024
Rocket sirens sound in Haifa, Acre and surrounding towns
Sirens sound in Haifa, Acre and multiple communities in the north, warning of an incoming rocket attack from Lebanon.
Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli troops close to south Lebanon border village
The Hezbollah terror group says it clashed twice with Israeli troops near the Lebanese border village of Ramiya.
The terror group says the fighting lasted around an hour. There is no comment from the IDF on the alleged incident.
In 2019, the IDF revealed “the longest and most significant” cross-border Hezbollah attack tunnel that was discovered during Operation Northern Shield. The subterranean passageway began close to Ramiya.
UN, NGOs express concern over staff detained by Houthis for alleged ‘US-Israeli spy network’
Yemeni men riding motorcycles drive over an Israeli flag painted on the asphalt in the Houthi-run capital Sanaa on February 29, 2024. ( MOHAMMED HUWAIS / AFP)
UN agencies and NGOs express “grave concern” over the referral for criminal prosecution of a large number of their staff who have been “arbitrarily detained” by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, and renew calls for their immediate release.
The Iran-backed Houthis have detained dozens of staff from UN and other humanitarian organizations, most of them since June, claiming they are members of a “US-Israeli spy network,” a charge the United Nations denies.
“We are extremely concerned about the reported referral to ‘criminal prosecution’ by the Huthi de facto authorities of a significant number of arbitrarily detained colleagues,” says a statement signed by principals of affected UN entities and international NGOs.
The Houthi authorities have not issued any announcement in this regard.
The signatories of the statement included WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, UNESCO head Audrey Azoulay, UN human rights chief Volker Turk and Oxfam International executive director Amitabh Behar.
The Houthis have kidnapped, arbitrarily detained and tortured hundreds of civilians, including UN and NGO workers, since the start of Yemen’s civil war in 2014, according to rights groups.
In June, the Houthis detained 13 UN personnel, including six employees of the Human Rights Office, and more than 50 NGO staff plus an embassy staff member.
The Houthis claimed they had arrested “an American-Israeli spy network” operating under the cover of humanitarian organizations — allegations emphatically rejected by the UN Human Rights Office.
Two other UN human rights staff had already been detained since November 2021 and August 2023 respectively. They are all being held incommunicado.
Report: US believes Israel will target Iranian military, energy infrastructure in strike
Illustrative: Iranian soldiers take part in a military parade during a ceremony marking the country's annual army day in Tehran on April 17, 2024. (Atta Kenare / AFP)
US officials believe Israel has narrowed down targets in its response to Iran’s recent missile attack to military and energy infrastructure, NBC reports.
There is no indication that Israel will target nuclear facilities or carry out assassinations, the report says citing unnamed US officials, adding that Israel has not made final decisions about how and when to act.
Israel has said that Iran’s attack of some 200 ballistic missiles on the country would “have consequences.”
Rocket sirens sound in northern border communities
Sirens sound in multiple communities in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon, warning of incoming rocket fire.
Rocket alerts again sound in northern border communities
More incoming rocket sirens have sounded in northern border towns in the past 30 minutes.
The alarms have sounded in Metula, Ghajjar, Zarit and several other evacuated communities.
There have been no reports of impacts or injuries.
IDF downs ‘suspicious aerial target’ that crossed from Lebanon off Nahariya coast
The IDF says the Air Force successfully intercepted a “suspicious aerial target” — likely a drone — that crossed from Lebanon a short while ago.
The army says no alerts were activated in Israeli communities during the infiltration, which happened off the coast of Nahariya.
חיל האוויר יירט לפני זמן קצר מטרה אווירית חשודה שחצתה מלבנון לעבר שטח הארץ, במרחב הימי מול חופי נהריה.
לא הופעלו התרעות על פי מדיניות pic.twitter.com/QySKkE00IU— צבא ההגנה לישראל (@idfonline) October 13, 2024
US defense chief voices concern to Gallant over reported targeting of UN peacekeepers
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, right, and his US counterpart Lloyd Austin shake hands while delivering joint statements at the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv on October 13, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart Yoav Gallant on Saturday, expressing “deep concern” over reports that Israeli forces fired on UN peacekeeping positions in Lebanon, the US Department of Defense says in a statement.
Austin called for the safety and security of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, known as UNIFIL, and the Lebanese army, the readout says.
Austin also stressed the “need to pivot from military operations in Lebanon to a diplomatic pathway as soon as feasible.”
Several rounds of rocket sirens sound in north
Several rounds of incoming rocket alerts have sounded in the north, indicating possible attacks from Lebanon.
Alarms blared in Mitzpe Hila and the Goren Park in the Western Galilee shortly after midnight, and there have been more sirens in the past hour in the area of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee Panhandle.
There has been no word from the military, and no reports of impacts or injuries.
Jewish school in Canada targeted by gunfire during Yom Kippur, in 2nd attack in months
Bais Chaya Mushka, a Jewish girls' school in Toronto, Canada, in an undated photo. (Screenshot)
A Jewish school in Toronto was hit by gunfire Saturday for the second time this year, local police say, amid a rise in antisemitic attacks in Canada in the wake of the war in the Middle East.
No one was injured after shots were fired from a vehicle at around 4 a.m. local time at the Bais Chaya Mushka girls school, with the only damage being a broken window, according to authorities.
The school in the North York area of Toronto was targeted in a similar incident in May, and police believe the two shootings are connected.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he is “very disturbed” by the incident, which comes as Jewish people celebrate Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in Judaism.
“As we wait for more details, my heart goes out to the students, staff and parents who must be terrified and hurting today,” Trudeau says in a post on X.
“Antisemitism is a disgusting and dangerous form of hate — and we won’t let it stand,” he adds.
According to a report published in May by Jewish organization B’nai Brith Canada, antisemitic acts more than doubled in the country between 2022 and 2023.
In November 2023, a Jewish school in Montreal was shot at twice in a single week, with no one injured.
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