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Israel-Hamas war: What happened on day 360?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 IDF soldiers conduct training exercises near the northern border and at command headquarters, September 30, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF soldiers conduct training exercises near the northern border and at command headquarters, September 30, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

Hezbollah says it targeted Israeli troop movements near Lebanese border towns

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Hezbollah issued a statement early on Tuesday saying it targeted Israeli troop movements across from Lebanese border towns.

 

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Israel's cabinet approves the next phase of the operation in Lebanon

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The ministers of Israel's political-security cabinet officially approved the next phase of the operation in Lebanon during their Monday night meeting, Israeli media reported.

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Metula, Misgav Am, Kfar Giladi in Israel's North declared closed military zones

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Following a situational assessment, the areas of Metula, Misgav Am, and Kfar Giladi in northern Israel were declared a closed military zone, the IDF said on Monday evening. The statement also said that entry to this area is prohibited.  

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Lebanese army withdraws from southern border with Israel, sources say

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The Lebanese Army was seen withdrawing from several positions on the southern border with Israel, local residents and a security source told Reuters. 

Lebanese security sources said that the troops pulled back to at least five kilometers north of the border between Israel and Lebanon. 

However, an additional source from the Lebanese Army refuted this statement, noting that the military had redeployed forces in southern Lebanon following Israeli threats of ground invasion, Israel's Army Radio reported on Monday evening. 

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Iran is 'on our side', Hezbollah lawmaker says

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Hezbollah has not asked for any help from Iran as "they are on our side", the Lebanese group's lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah told local broadcaster Al Jadeed on Monday.
 

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UNRWA chief denies knowledge that suspended employee was Hamas leader in Lebanon

"The specific allegation at the time was that (he was) a part of the local leadership... I never heard the word commander before," he said.

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 Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024.  (photo credit: REUTERS/Abed Khaled)
Palestinians inspect the site of an Israeli strike on a UNRWA school sheltering displaced people, amid the Israel-Hamas conflict, in Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip, June 6, 2024.
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The chief of the UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) on Monday denied knowing that its employee Fateh Sherif Abu el-Amin was a Hamas commander in Lebanon and called on states to push back against Israeli attacks on the agency.

El-Amin, the head of Hamas' Lebanon branch, was killed along with family members in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the group said on Monday. He had been placed under investigation and suspended from his job at UNRWA in March following allegations concerning his politics, agency head Philippe Lazzarini told reporters in Geneva.

"The specific allegation at the time was that (he was) a part of the local leadership... I never heard the word commander before," he said. "What's obvious for you today, was not obvious yesterday."

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Home Front Command issues new directives for communities in northern Israel

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Following a security assessment, the Home Front Command issued new directives to northern communities.

The directives were given to communities north of the Hula Valley and included limiting movements in towns, avoiding large gatherings, controlling gates of settlements, and remaining near protected areas. 

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Biden calls on Israel not to enter southern Lebanon

The US pushes diplomacy as Israel considers Lebanon ground operation following Nasrallah's assassination and rising regional tensions.

By TOVAH LAZAROFF
 PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, last week. The loss of appetite for victory that has taken over the thinking of the West is both dangerous and immoral, the writer argues. (photo credit: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters)
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu meets with US President Joe Biden in the Oval Office of the White House, last week. The loss of appetite for victory that has taken over the thinking of the West is both dangerous and immoral, the writer argues.
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President Joe Biden called on the IDF not to launch a ground campaign into southern Lebanon to route out the Iranian proxy group Hezbollah as tensions appeared to escalate between the two staunch allies over the pending operation which the security cabinet approved Monday night.

“We should have a ceasefire now,” Biden said during a press event at the White House. 

A reporter quizzed him about whether he knew of and was comfortable with Israeli plans to enter Lebanon.

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Hezbollah says it is ready for any Israeli land invasion in Lebanon

"We will face any possibility and we are ready if the Israelis decide to enter by land and the resistance forces are ready for a ground engagement."

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 Toy soldiers, Hezbollah and Israel flags are seen in this illustration taken, October 15, 2023. (photo credit: REUTERS/DADO RUVIC/ILLUSTRATION)
Toy soldiers, Hezbollah and Israel flags are seen in this illustration taken, October 15, 2023.
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Hezbollah fighters are primed to confront any Israeli ground invasion of Lebanon, the group's deputy leader Naim Qassem said on Monday in his first public speech since Israeli airstrikes killed its veteran chief Hassan Nasrallah last week.

Israel will not achieve its goals, he said.

"We will face any possibility and we are ready if the Israelis decide to enter by land and the resistance forces are ready for a ground engagement," he said in an address from an undisclosed location.

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The threats from Hezbollah invading IDF forces may face - analysis

One issue which may be less of a problem in southern Lebanon could be the issue of civilians in the crossfire of any invasion.

By YONAH JEREMY BOB
 IDF reservists simulate operational and logistical preparedness in northern Israel, September 27, 2024.  (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF reservists simulate operational and logistical preparedness in northern Israel, September 27, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

If the IDF invades Lebanon in the near future, as expected, the military hopes to be better prepared for Hezbollah’s advantages and ambushes that it used effectively against the IDF during the Second Lebanon War in 2006.

It is expected that the IDF’s methods of maneuvering will be influenced by a number of factors. It wants to remove Hezbollah’s remaining Radwan Forces infrastructure, set up to invade Israel. However, it also wants to avoid real-time threats from anti-tank missiles, drones, and rockets.

Anti-tank missiles and rockets hit IDF soldiers particularly hard in 2006, and that was before they had such extensive drone capabilities.

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Israel-Hamas war: What you need to know 


  • Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
  • Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
  • 101 hostages remain in Gaza
  • 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says