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As the Iranian minister met with Lebanese and Hezbollah officers in Beirut, Israel continued to select off high Hezbollah commanders with airstrikes.
Hashem Safieddine, seen as Nasrallah’s most definitely successor, was presumably among the many dead in a collection punishing Israeli assaults on the southern suburbs of Beirut this week. Israeli officers say they’re nonetheless making an attempt to substantiate whether or not Safieddine was in a Hezbollah intelligence headquarters close to Beirut’s airport when it was struck.
Along with Hezbollah leaders, Israel has additionally been focusing on Hamas commanders based mostly in Lebanon. On Saturday, Hamas-affiliated media reported that Saeed Atallah, one of many leaders of al-Qassam brigades, a navy wing of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in northern Lebanon.
The defiant remarks by Araghchi have been in step with these made simply hours earlier by Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who in a fiery sermon at Friday prayers in Tehran justified Iran’s ballistic missile strike towards Israel, saying it was “completely authorized and legit” and a “minimal punishment for Zionist crimes.”
Occasionally greedy the barrel of a rifle propped by his facet, Khamenei promised Israel will “by no means defeat Hamas and Hezbollah,” including that the Iran-backed teams “won’t again down.” The final time Khamenei performed Friday prayers was practically 5 years in the past after the killing of Qassem Soleimani, the chief of Iran’s elite paramilitary forces, in a U.S. drone strike.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) mentioned the Isaeli navy on Saturday struck Hezbollah operatives at a command middle inside a mosque in southern Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil, throughout the Martyr Salah Ghandour Hospital compound. The IDF mentioned the drone strike was “exact” and based mostly on intelligence.
Before finishing up the strike, the IDF despatched textual content messages to the residents and referred to as up officers in close by villages, “demanding that every one acts of terror carried out on the hospital stop instantly,” it mentioned.
