A military official said the country was preparing its retaliation for Iran’s Oct 1 missile attack.
JERUSALEM – Israel placed its forces on alert on Oct 5, ahead of the anniversary of Hamas’ Oct 7 attack, after a military official said the country was preparing its retaliation for Iran’s missile attack.which army chief Lieutenant-General Herzi Halevi said would be hit “without concession or respite”.
Israel said it aims to allow tens of thousands of Israelis displaced by almost a year of Hezbollah rocket fire into northern Israel to return home. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in a statement, noted Iran had twice launched “hundreds of missiles” at Israeli territory since April. The movement has yet to name a new chief after Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah in late September in a massive strike in the Lebanese capital.
The Israeli military said on Oct 5 that it had struck militants inside a mosque in Bint Jbeil. It also reported frequent rocket fire from Lebanon while Hezbollah claimed a rocket attack on northern Israel’s Ramat David air base, and on a “military industries company” near Israel’s coastal city of Acre.
Hamas said Israeli strikes had killed two of its operatives in north and east Lebanon on Oct 5, as Israel’s military confirmed the killing of two Hamas figures.Mr Netanyahu said Israel had “destroyed a large part” of Hezbollah’s arsenal and “changed the course of the war”. The head of the UN refugee agency, Mr Filippo Grandi, said in Lebanon that the country “faces a terrible crisis” and warned that “hundreds of thousands of people are left destitute or displaced by Israeli air strikes”.British Foreign Minister David Lammy described reports of the strikes “deeply disturbing” in a post on X.
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