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  • IDF destroys two-kilometer-long Gaza terror tunnel in Beit Lahiya

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    IDF soldiers destroyed a two-kilometer-long terror tunnel in northern Gaza as part of ongoing operations to dismantle Hamas infrastructure, the military said.

    The IDF destroyed a two-kilometer-long terror tunnel in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, the military confirmed on Sunday.

    Soldiers from the Gaza Division’s Northern Brigade, along with Yahalom Combat Engineers, located and destroyed the tunnel amid ongoing operations to remove terrorist infrastructure in the area.

    The soldiers will continue their counterterrorism operations in the region, the military added.

    IDF troops operate in Beit Lahiya, Gaza Strip, January 4, 2026. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

    This development follows Saturday’s confirmation that the military struck and destroyed a tunnel in northern Gaza that contained a rocket launcher that was loaded and ready to fire at the southern Israeli city of Sderot.

    IDF troops find Gaza tunnel after rain, flood-induced landslides reveal terror site, ‘Post’ learns

    Soldiers from the IDF’s Golani Brigade discovered a terror tunnel that was exposed after heavy rain and flooding, The Jerusalem Post learned on Monday.

    This tunnel was located approximately 800 meters from the border, near Kibbutz Kissufim, and is entirely within Israel’s side of the Yellow Line.

    Also on Monday, security sources told Walla that the IDF is in a “race against time” to locate and destroy tunnels between the Gaza border fence and the Yellow Line, before diplomatic factors bring operations to a halt.

    Sam Halpern and Amir Bohbot contributed to this report.

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  • IDF destroys Hamas shaft in northern Gaza with loaded ‘ready to fire’ rocket aimed at Sderot

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    The military slammed the terror organization for breaching the ceasefire, noting that loading the launcher is a violation of the US-brokered agreement.

    The IDF struck and destroyed a Hamas tunnel shaft in northern Gaza that contained a rocket launcher that was loaded and ready to fire at the southern Israeli city of Sderot, the military announced on Saturday evening.

    “The shaft was used by Hamas to conceal a rocket launcher that was ready to fire toward southern Israel and posed an immediate threat to Israeli civilians,” the IDF stated.

    The military went on to slam the terror organization for breaching the ceasefire, noting that loading the launcher was a violation of the US-brokered agreement.

    The IDF also asserted that it had employed measures ahead of striking the Hamas target to reduce harm to civilians in the area through the use of “precise munitions, aerial surveillance, and additional intelligence.”

    Palestinian Hamas terrorists gather at the site of the handing over of the bodies of four Israeli hostages in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza on February 20, 2025. (credit: EYAD BABA/AFP via Getty Images)

    Some 13,500 rockets fired from Gaza throughout Israel-Hamas War

    Prior to the implementation of the ceasefire in October of last year, Hamas’s capacity to fire rockets was decimated throughout the course of the war. Still, since the outbreak of the fighting on October 7, 2023, Gazan terrorists fired some 13,500 rockets at Israeli territory, according to the Institute for National Security Studies.

    It went on to note that Israeli troops would continue to operate in the area in accordance with the ceasefire agreement and would continue to work to confront additional immediate threats.

    IDF strikes terrorist in Lebanon, cites Hezbollah ceasefire violations

    Hamas’s violation of the ceasefire was the second ceasefire violation of the day that the IDF said it responded to.

    Earlier, the military noted that it had struck a Hezbollah terrorist in the Al-Khiyam area of southern Lebanon.

    The IDF stated the strike was a response to “Hezbollah’s continued violations of the ceasefire understandings,” but did not provide any details on the identity of the terrorist or the activities the individual was engaging in at the time of the strike.

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  • IDF destroys hundred-meter long tunnel, rocket depot in northern Gaza

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    Two operations in northern Gaza were conducted and dismantled Hamas infrastructure, while undercover operations in the West Bank managed to detain Hamas operatives in Nablus.

    The IDF destroyed a Hamas compound in the Shejaia, northern Gaza, containing launchers and rockets, while a tunnel hundreds of meters long was located and destroyed in Jabaliya, the military said on Tuesday.

    “Since the ceasefire agreement came into effect, IDF soldiers from the 11th Brigade identified a compound containing launchers, rockets, and launch positions belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in the center of the Shejaia area in northern Gaza,” the IDF stated.

    “An underground tunnel route spanning hundreds of meters long and tens of meters deep was located in the Jabaliya area and dismantled by soldiers from the 188th Brigade, together with Yahalom soldiers,” the statement also specified.

    In a separate operation, soldiers from the elite Duvdevan unit, under the direction of the Shin Bet (Israel’s Security Agency), arrested two terrorists who were hiding in neighborhoods of the city of Nablus.

    IDF soldiers operate in the West Bank, July 25, 2025. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

    “Two wanted terrorists identified with the Hamas terrorist organization in the Balata camp and the village of Masachen in Sha’biyah,” the military specified.

    Hezbollah rearming at an alarming pace

    In the northern front, a classified report shared in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in the Knesset stated that Hezbollah’s rearming rate was faster than the current attacks against it by the IDF.

    The report specified that Hezbollah is strengthening its forces at a faster pace than the IDF is managing to hit it, with the blows inflicted during the last war starting to wear off as the organization recomposes its forces.

    Amichai Stein contributed to this report.

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  • Four IDF soldiers killed in northern Gaza tank explosion

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    At around 6 a.m., a cell comprising three terrorists arrived on the outskirts of Sheikh Radwan in northern Gaza, opened fire, and threw an explosive device into the tank.

    Four IDF soldiers from the Armored Corps were killed in northern Gaza, the military said on Monday.

    Staff-Sergeant Uri Lamed, age 20, from Tel Mond, Sergeant Gadi Cotal, aged 20, from Kibbutz Afikim, and Sergeant Amit Arye Regev from Modi’in-Maccabim-Reut, were the soldiers’ names who were cleared for publication.

    The fourth soldier’s name was not cleared for publication.

    Shortly before the incident, at 5:00 a.m., the battalion’s forces had returned to the post from nighttime operations in the area, and by 6:00 a.m., the soldiers were in “dawn alert,” with commanders conducting a situational assessment.

    At around 6 a.m., a cell comprising three terrorists arrived on the outskirts of Sheikh Radwan, west of Jabalya in northern Gaza, close to where the Nahal Brigade’s 50th Battalion was stationed. The tank was stationed in a defensive position near the IDF’s post.

    An IDF tank operates in the Gaza Strip. May 10, 2025. (credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON’S UNIT)

    The terrorists approached the tank and opened fire on the tank crew, and immediately following the fire, they threw an explosive device inside the tank within close range, with the explosion killing the four soldiers inside.

    Soldier from Nahal Brigade moderately wounded

    During subsequent exchanges of fire with the terrorists, a soldier from the Nahal Brigade was moderately wounded.

    According to the initial investigation, the crew inside the tank was not asleep during the incident, and was reported to be alert and conducting scans of the area.

    Two terrorists were hit during the exchange of fire with IDF soldiers.

    The deaths of the four soldiers raise the toll of soldiers’ deaths to 904 since the start of the Swords of Iron War.

    This is a developing story.

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  • Large-scale evacuation of Gazans from north Gaza, Gaza City to begin soon

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    Hamas distributed media messages to deter residents from moving south, in order to continue using them as human shields.

    The large-scale movement of the population from northern Gaza and Gaza City is expected to begin soon, according to officers in the Southern Command.

    Estimates suggest that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians will move to shelter areas in the southern Gaza Strip. The officers said that the transfer will be accompanied by the distribution of leaflets and media announcements to residents of the Strip. The move will also be accompanied by intensified ground and air operations.

    Additionally, thousands of tents and shelter equipment entered Gaza on Thursday, COGAT said on X/Twitter, in preparation for the IDF’s plans. Tens of thousands more tents are in the pipeline and are expected to enter Gaza in the coming days.

    “COGAT, together with international partners, is working to ensure the population has humanitarian supplies, including food, medical supplies, and shelter equipment,” the agency said.

    The defense establishment estimates that between 70,000 and 80,000 residents have left Gaza City for the south over the past two weeks due to fears of an escalation in fighting by Israel.

    A Palestinian displaced by the Israeli military offensive walks in a tent camp, as Israeli forces escalate operations around Gaza City, in Gaza City, September 3, 2025. (credit: REUTERS/Mahmoud Issa)

    Hamas fears the movement of residents, who are used by the group as human shields, and is therefore trying to prevent it. After IDF Arabic-language spokesperson Avichay Adraee published messages to Gaza residents about designated humanitarian zones in the Strip,

    Hamas’s Government Information Office claimed that the Al-Mawasi area and the central camps were not suitable for absorbing evacuees, warning of suffering, overcrowding, and hunger. A channel operated by Hamas’s military wing told residents that the announcement was merely “a deception to force residents to evacuate to areas near our positions, where they continue to be targets for attacks.”

    Ahead of the implementation of the plan to capture Gaza City, which is expected to include the evacuation of the city’s population to the south, security officials told Walla that Hamas has launched a new campaign against the movement of Palestinians.

    Hamas distributes media messages to deter residents from moving south

    As part of the campaign, Hamas distributed media messages to deter residents from moving south, in order to continue using them as human shields.

    Hamas also began distributing leaflets forbidding residents from leaving and claimed that prices in Gaza City were being reduced, in an attempt to keep the population in place.

    The IDF has received testimonies, including video documentation, showing Palestinians from the Zeitoun neighborhood evacuating south, saying, “There is no other place we want to go.”

    Residents expressed concern over their inability to afford rent in a new location if they fail to find tents in the shelter areas in the south.

    Jerusalem Post Staff contributed to this report.

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  • Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again

    Heavy Israeli bombardment in northern Gaza as UN peacekeepers in Lebanon are hit again

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    Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups.In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said its headquarters in Naqoura was hit again, with a peacekeeper struck by gunfire late Friday and in stable condition. It wasn’t clear who fired. It occurred a day after Israel’s military fired on the headquarters for a second straight day. Israel, which has warned peacekeepers to leave their positions, didn’t immediately respond to questions.Hunger warnings emerged again in northern Gaza as residents said they hadn’t received aid since the beginning of the month. The U.N. World Food Program said no food aid had entered the north since Oct. 1. An estimated 400,000 people remain there.Israel’s military renewed its offensive in northern Gaza almost a week ago while escalating its air and ground campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Amid Israel’s war with Hezbollah, a top U.N. official, Carl Skau, told The Associated Press he’s concerned that Lebanon’s ports and airport might be taken out of service. More than 1 million people have been displaced.Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired more than 300 projectiles over Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day on the Jewish calendar. The military also said it killed 50 militants in Lebanon. Claims on either side couldn’t be verified.Israeli airstrikes on Saturday hit multiple areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Nine were killed in Maisra village in the northeast. Four were killed in an apartment building on the edge of Barja south of Beirut. Rayak and Tal Chiha hospitals in the Bekaa Valley were damaged. In Nabatieh, eight people were wounded.The total toll in Lebanon over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is now 2,255 killed, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. More than 1,400 people have been killed since mid-September. It isn’t clear how many were fighters.“We will keep standing with the Lebanese people during these difficult circumstances and also with the Palestinian people,” the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Saturday while touring the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.Some Gaza residents are trappedIn northern Gaza, residents told the AP many were trapped in their homes and shelters with dwindling supplies while seeing bodies uncollected in the streets as the bombing hampered emergency responders.Those who rushed to the scene of the latest deadly airstrikes in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya found a hole 20 meters (65 feet) deep where a home once stood.At least 20 bodies were recovered while others likely were under rubble, emergency service officials said.Elsewhere in Jabaliya, a strike on a home killed two brothers and wounded a woman and newborn baby, the officials said. An afternoon strike on a home killed at least four people, including a woman, said Fares Abu Hamza, an official with the emergency service.Israel’s military said it killed more than 20 militants in the Jabaliya area over the past day.Military spokesperson Avichay Adraee told people in parts of Jabaliya and Gaza City to evacuate south to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone as Israel plans to use great force “and will continue to do so for a long time.”Israel has repeatedly returned to parts of Gaza as Hamas and other militants regroup. The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times.Once again, some families moved south on foot, in donkey carts or crowded in vehicles that navigated piles of rubble. Others refused to go.“It’s like the first days of the war,” said a Jabaliya resident, Ahmed Abu Goneim. “The occupation is doing everything to uproot us. But we will not leave.”The 24-year-old said Israeli warplanes and drones struck many neighboring houses in the past week. He counted 15 relatives and neighbors, including four women and five children as young as 3, killed in neighboring homes. He said that there were dead in the streets.Hamza Sharif, who stays with his family in a school-turned-shelter in Jabaliya, described “constant bombings day and night.”He said the shelter hasn’t received aid since the beginning of the month and that families “will run out of supplies very soon.”Food is running outThe World Food Program said it was unclear how long the limited food supplies it distributed in northern Gaza earlier will last.The U.N.’s independent investigator on the right to food last month accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians, which Israel has denied.Israel’s offensive in Gaza started after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, when militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others.Israel’s offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who don’t specify between combatants and civilians. Gaza’s Health Ministry said that hospitals had received the bodies of 49 people killed over the past 24 hours.___Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Jack Jeffery in Jerusalem, and Sam Metz in Rabat, Morocco, contributed to this report.

    Palestinians in northern Gaza described heavy Israeli bombardment Saturday in the hours after airstrikes killed at least 22 people, as Israel warned people there and in southern Lebanon to get out of the way of offensives against the Hamas and Hezbollah militant groups.

    In Lebanon, the U.N. peacekeeping force said its headquarters in Naqoura was hit again, with a peacekeeper struck by gunfire late Friday and in stable condition. It wasn’t clear who fired. It occurred a day after Israel’s military fired on the headquarters for a second straight day. Israel, which has warned peacekeepers to leave their positions, didn’t immediately respond to questions.

    Hunger warnings emerged again in northern Gaza as residents said they hadn’t received aid since the beginning of the month. The U.N. World Food Program said no food aid had entered the north since Oct. 1. An estimated 400,000 people remain there.

    Israel’s military renewed its offensive in northern Gaza almost a week ago while escalating its air and ground campaign against the Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon. Amid Israel’s war with Hezbollah, a top U.N. official, Carl Skau, told The Associated Press he’s concerned that Lebanon’s ports and airport might be taken out of service. More than 1 million people have been displaced.

    Israel’s military said Hezbollah fired more than 300 projectiles over Yom Kippur, the holiest and most solemn day on the Jewish calendar. The military also said it killed 50 militants in Lebanon. Claims on either side couldn’t be verified.

    Israeli airstrikes on Saturday hit multiple areas in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. Nine were killed in Maisra village in the northeast. Four were killed in an apartment building on the edge of Barja south of Beirut. Rayak and Tal Chiha hospitals in the Bekaa Valley were damaged. In Nabatieh, eight people were wounded.

    The total toll in Lebanon over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah is now 2,255 killed, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. More than 1,400 people have been killed since mid-September. It isn’t clear how many were fighters.

    “We will keep standing with the Lebanese people during these difficult circumstances and also with the Palestinian people,” the speaker of Iran’s parliament, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf, said Saturday while touring the scene of an Israeli airstrike in Beirut.

    Some Gaza residents are trapped

    In northern Gaza, residents told the AP many were trapped in their homes and shelters with dwindling supplies while seeing bodies uncollected in the streets as the bombing hampered emergency responders.

    Those who rushed to the scene of the latest deadly airstrikes in the urban refugee camp of Jabaliya found a hole 20 meters (65 feet) deep where a home once stood.

    At least 20 bodies were recovered while others likely were under rubble, emergency service officials said.

    Elsewhere in Jabaliya, a strike on a home killed two brothers and wounded a woman and newborn baby, the officials said. An afternoon strike on a home killed at least four people, including a woman, said Fares Abu Hamza, an official with the emergency service.

    Israel’s military said it killed more than 20 militants in the Jabaliya area over the past day.

    Military spokesperson Avichay Adraee told people in parts of Jabaliya and Gaza City to evacuate south to an Israeli-designated humanitarian zone as Israel plans to use great force “and will continue to do so for a long time.”

    Israel has repeatedly returned to parts of Gaza as Hamas and other militants regroup. The war has destroyed large areas of Gaza and displaced around 90% of its population of 2.3 million people, often multiple times.

    Once again, some families moved south on foot, in donkey carts or crowded in vehicles that navigated piles of rubble. Others refused to go.

    “It’s like the first days of the war,” said a Jabaliya resident, Ahmed Abu Goneim. “The occupation is doing everything to uproot us. But we will not leave.”

    The 24-year-old said Israeli warplanes and drones struck many neighboring houses in the past week. He counted 15 relatives and neighbors, including four women and five children as young as 3, killed in neighboring homes. He said that there were dead in the streets.

    Hamza Sharif, who stays with his family in a school-turned-shelter in Jabaliya, described “constant bombings day and night.”

    He said the shelter hasn’t received aid since the beginning of the month and that families “will run out of supplies very soon.”

    Food is running out

    The World Food Program said it was unclear how long the limited food supplies it distributed in northern Gaza earlier will last.

    The U.N.’s independent investigator on the right to food last month accused Israel of carrying out a “starvation campaign” against Palestinians, which Israel has denied.

    Israel’s offensive in Gaza started after Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack, when militants stormed into Israel, killing about 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and abducting around 250 others.

    Israel’s offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians, according to local health authorities, who don’t specify between combatants and civilians. Gaza’s Health Ministry said that hospitals had received the bodies of 49 people killed over the past 24 hours.

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    Samy Magdy reported from Cairo. Jack Jeffery in Jerusalem, and Sam Metz in Rabat, Morocco, contributed to this report.

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  • As Gaza deaths top 25,000, Hamas defends attacks that sparked war

    As Gaza deaths top 25,000, Hamas defends attacks that sparked war

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    Palestinian militant group Hamas on Sunday defended its October 7 attacks on Israel but admitted to “faults” and called for an end to “Israeli aggression” in Gaza, where the health ministry said the death toll passed 25,000.

    Southern Gaza is the latest focus of Israel’s battle to destroy the Islamist group responsible for the deadliest attack in the country’s history.

    In its first public report on the attacks that began the war, Hamas said they were a “necessary step” against Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, and a way to secure release of Palestinian prisoners.

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu later vowed “complete victory” and said his government would not accept Hamas’s conditions for releasing hostages still held in Gaza.

    Hamas’s 16-page report admitted “some faults happened… due to the rapid collapse of the Israeli security and military system, and the chaos caused along the border areas with Gaza”.

    The report did not make clear why it was issued now, more than three months into the war that began when militants broke through Gaza’s militarised border to attack Israelis and foreigners in the streets, in their homes and at an outdoor rave party.

    This resulted in the deaths of about 1,140 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally based on official Israeli figures.

    With the border fence broken during the attacks, anybody could enter Israel.

    Accounts of sexual violence emerged but the scarcity of survivor testimonies and the lack of forensic evidence made it difficult to assess their scale.

    – Naval bombardment –

    Militants seized about 250 hostages during the attacks, and Israel says around 132 remain in Gaza. At least 28 of them are believed to have been killed, according to an AFP tally based on Israeli figures.

    Hamas — considered a “terrorist” group by the United States and European Union — said in the report its fighters were committed to “Islamic values”, and if civilians were targeted “it happened accidently and in the course of the confrontation with the occupation forces.”

    In response to the attacks, Israel has launched a military offensive that has killed at least 25,105 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the latest toll issued on Sunday by the health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza.

    In early January, Israel’s military said the Hamas command structure in northern Gaza had been dismantled, leaving only isolated fighters.

    But witnesses told AFP Israeli vessels were bombarding Gaza City and other areas in the north early Sunday. Hamas has also reported heavy combat in the north.

    The Israeli army said it “eliminated a number of terrorists” in the main southern city of Khan Yunis and killed 15 militants in northern Gaza over the past day.

    Netanyahu is under intense pressure to return the hostages and account for security failings surrounding the October attacks.

    In a video statement released after the Hamas report, he said that “in exchange for the release of our hostages, Hamas demands an end to the war, the withdrawal of our forces from Gaza”, the release of Palestinian prisoners and guarantees that Hamas would stay in power.

    “If we accept this, our soldiers have fallen in vain,” Netanyahu said. “If we accept this, we won’t be able to guarantee the safety of our citizens.”

    The United Nations says about 1.7 million people have been displaced in Gaza, with about one million crowded into the Rafah area of Gaza’s south near Egypt.

    – Donkey carts –

    UN agencies have warned better aid access is needed urgently as famine and disease loom. Gazans are also struggling with shortages of water, medical care and other essentials.

    With fuel scarce, they have increasingly turned to donkey carts for transport.

    “Anyone who used to own a car now uses a donkey. Even businessmen or officials try to collect money just to buy a donkey,” said Badr al-Akhras, a trader of the beasts.

    Diplomatic efforts have sought to secure scaled-up aid deliveries for Gaza and a truce, after a week-long cessation of hostilities in November saw Hamas release dozens of hostages in exchange for Palestinian prisoners held by Israel.

    Hamas’s Qatar-based chief Ismail Haniyeh held a meeting with the Turkish foreign minister, diplomatic sources said on Sunday, in the first official contact between the two for more than three months.

    Among their discussion was “a two-state solution for a permanent peace,” one of the sources said.

    The United States and Arab countries are also seeking such a solution involving Palestinian statehood, but Netanyahu has rejected it, saying “Israel must retain security control over Gaza”.

    Britain’s Defence Secretary Grant Shapps on Sunday called it “disappointing actually, to hear that from the Israeli prime minister.”

    Hamas in its report rejected any international and Israeli efforts to decide Gaza’s post-war future.

    Israel’s northern border with Lebanon has seen near-daily exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and the Iran-backed Hezbollah movement.

    On Sunday an Israeli drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah fighter, a security official and a source close to the group told AFP. Israel said its warplanes bombed Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon.

    Also adding to fears of wider conflict, a strike on Saturday killed Iran’s Revolutionary Guards’ (IRGC) Syria spy chief in Damascus, Iran’s Mehr news agency said. Iran blamed Israel.

    The White House said it was taking “extremely seriously” a weekend attack by Iran-backed militants using “multiple ballistic missiles and rockets” against a base hosting US forces in Iraq.

    Dozens of such attacks in Iraq and Syria have taken place since mid-October and most have been claimed by militants opposing US support for Israel, but the use of ballistic missiles marked an escalation.

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