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Live blog: Netanyahu tells US Israel will strike Iranian ‘military’ targets
Tel Aviv’s year-long war on Gaza has killed at least 42,289 Palestinians. Separately, Israeli attacks across Lebanon since October 2023 have killed more than 2,309 people and uprooted another 1.2 million.
FILE PHOTO: Projectiles are seen in the sky after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv / Photo: Reuters
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FILE PHOTO: Projectiles are seen in the sky after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv / Photo: Reuters
Tuesday, October 15, 2024
2241 GMT — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has assured the US that his forces will attack Iranian military sites, not the nuclear and oil facilities that President Joe Biden has warned against striking, according to a report.
Two anonymous officials, including one from the US, said Netanyahu delivered the assurance that he would target Iranian military infrastructure during a phone call with Biden last week, according to The Washington Post.
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2236 GMT — Israel disrupts GPS around defence ministry in Tel Aviv
The Israeli army started to disrupt global positioning systems (GPS) signals around defence ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, central Israel, said to be fearing an attack by Iran.
According to Israeli news website Walla, the move comes ahead of a possible Iranian response to an expected Israeli attack on Iran.
It added that Israel is preparing for the possibility of being attacked again by Tehran after its expected attack on Iran, adding that the army’s air defence systems are on high alert.
2200 GMT — US lawmaker slams Biden administration over Gaza
US Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Monday criticised the Biden administration over the “horrors” seen in Gaza due to the actions of an “unrestrained” Israel.
“The horrors unfolding in northern Gaza are the result of a completely unrestrained Netanyahu gov, fully armed by the Biden admin while food aid is blocked and patients are bombed in hospitals. This is a genocide of Palestinians,” she wrote on X.
“The US must stop enabling it. Arms embargo now,” added Ocasio-Cortez, a high-profile progressive lawmaker.
2130 GMT — Israeli official makes defamatory claims about UN peacekeepers
Close on the heels of Israel’s attacks on UN peacekeepers in Lebanon, an Israeli Cabinet minister made defamatory remarks about the peacekeeping group, falsely claiming that it serves as “a shield” for Lebanese group Hezbollah instead of acting as an impartial force.
On X, Israeli Energy Minister Eli Cohen claimed the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has not ensured the enforcement of UN resolutions and also “serves as a shield” for Lebanese group Hezbollah and is an “Iranian proxy.”
Cohen also said it is time for UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to respond to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Sunday request to withdraw the peacekeepers from southern Lebanon.
2113 GMT — Israel’s Netanyahu taken to safe area of hospital after air raid sirens sounded
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu evening was taken to a safe, fortified area in a hospital in northern Israel as air raid sirens were sounded over a possible rocket attack from Lebanon.
When the sirens went off, Netanyahu was in Hillel Yaffe Hospital in the city of Hadera, visiting Israeli soldiers who were injured on Sunday in a Hezbollah drone attack that killed four soldiers and left dozens of others injured, according to Israeli public broadcaster KAN.
After the sirens sounded, his security took him to a fortified area of the hospital, KAN added.
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SOURCE: TRTWORLD AND AGENCIES
