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US warns Israel not to repeat Gaza destruction in Lebanon

By David Stout with Laure Al Khoury
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9 Oct, 2024 10:54 PM6 mins to read

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Missiles follow an Israeli ground operation in Lebanon as sirens sound across Israel.
  • The US has urged Israel to avoid Gaza-like military action in Lebanon, following Netanyahu’s warning of potential destruction.
  • Israeli forces, led by Herzi Halevi, vowed to continue bombing Hezbollah targets despite US concerns.
  • Hezbollah and Israeli troops are engaged in clashes, with Israel intensifying airstrikes and ground operations in Lebanon.

The United States on Wednesday said Israel must avoid any Gaza-like military action in Lebanon after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned it risked “destruction” like that in the Palestinian territory.

“There should be no kind of military action in Lebanon that looks anything like Gaza and leaves a result anything like Gaza,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told journalists.

But Israeli armed forces chief Herzi Halevi vowed it would keep up the intensive bombing of Hezbollah targets that has already killed more than 1200 people since September 23, “without allowing them any respite or recovery”.

In a phone call on Wednesday, US President Joe Biden told Netanyahu to “minimise harm” to civilians in Lebanon, particularly in “densely populated areas of Beirut”, the White House said.

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It added the two leaders had agreed to stay in “close contact” over the coming days.

Netanyahu said in a video address addressed to the people of Lebanon on Tuesday: “You have an opportunity to save Lebanon before it falls into the abyss of a long war that will lead to destruction and suffering like we see in Gaza.”

He added: “Free your country from Hezbollah so that this war can end.”

Iran conflict concerns

A Lebanese government source told AFP Hezbollah had accepted a ceasefire with Israel on September 27, the day an Israeli strike killed the Iran-backed militant group’s leader Hassan Nasrallah.

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But they said Israel’s response had torpedoed the ceasefire plan, backed by Washington and its allies, and the Lebanese government had “had no contact with Hezbollah” since his death.

Biden and Netanyahu’s call had been expected to focus on Israel’s response to last week’s missile barrage by Iran.

Israel’s Defence Minister Yoav Gallant said: “Our attack on Iran will be deadly, precise and surprising.”

Iran fired some 200 missiles at Israel in what it said was retaliation for the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. Most were intercepted by allied air forces or Israel’s own air defences.

Biden has cautioned Israel against attempting to target Iran’s nuclear programme, which would risk major retaliation, and is also against striking the country’s oil installations, which would send world crude prices spiking.

Hezbollah rockets, Israeli strikes

Hezbollah said its fighters were locked in clashes with Israeli troops in southern Lebanon, using rocket-propelled weapons to repel Israeli attempts to breach the border.

Two people were killed by suspected Hezbollah rocket fire in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona, while Israeli air defences also intercepted two projectiles fired towards the coastal town of Caesarea, officials said.

Lebanon’s health ministry said at least four people were killed in an Israeli strike on a village in the Shouf district, southeast of Beirut, a region so far largely spared by Israel’s intensified bombing campaign.

Lebanon’s state civil defence body later said an Israeli strike killed five of its personnel in the southern village of Derdghaiya.

Israel has intensified airstrikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon since September 23, forcing more than a million people to flee, according to an AFP tally of official figures.

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Its ground forces crossed into Lebanon on September 30 in response to Hezbollah rocket and artillery attacks over the past year that have forced tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes in border areas.

Israel’s military said on Wednesday its troops had “eliminated terrorists during close-quarter encounters and in aerial strikes” over the previous 24 hours, adding that “100 Hezbollah terror targets were destroyed”.

Israeli operations have expanded from border areas in the interior to the southern section of Lebanon’s Mediterranean coast.

According to a new toll from the Israeli army on Wednesday, 13 of its soldiers have died since ground operations inside Lebanon began.

Israel’s air force also said on Wednesday it had killed a Hezbollah member named Adham Jahout in Syria.

This picture shows a building hit by Israeli air strikes in Baalbek, in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, on October 9, 2024 amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Photo / AFP
This picture shows a building hit by Israeli air strikes in Baalbek, in Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, on October 9, 2024 amid the ongoing war between Israel and Hezbollah. Photo / AFP

Civilians trapped in north Gaza

Israel was also extending an ongoing military operation around Jabalia in the north of Gaza, where around 400,000 people are trapped, according to Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).

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Posting on social media platform X, Lazzarini said there was “no end to hell” in the area and “recent evacuation orders from the Israeli authorities are forcing people to flee again and again”.

The army surrounded the town of Jabalia and its refugee camp at the weekend and was shelling it on Wednesday, preventing the delivery of aid, the Palestinian territory’s civil defence agency said.

Washington said it was “incredibly concerned” about the humanitarian situation in north Gaza as Israel tightens its siege, adding that it had been “the subject of some very urgent discussions between our two governments”.

“We have been making clear to the government of Israel that they have an obligation under international humanitarian law to allow food and water and other needed humanitarian assistance to make it into all parts of Gaza,” State Department spokesman Miller told journalists.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed at least 42,010 people in Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas-run territory’s health ministry, which the United Nations has described as reliable.

Displaced in Beirut

Israeli police said at least six people were wounded on Wednesday, some of them seriously, in a stabbing rampage at four locations in the central Israeli town of Hadera.

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In the occupied West Bank, Israeli border police killed at least four Palestinians in the northern city of Nablus, Palestinian health authorities and Israeli security forces said.

In Beirut, many people are sleeping out in the streets after Israeli airstrikes and dozens of displaced families were seen on Beirut’s seafront on Wednesday.

Ahmad, a 77-year-old Beirut resident who did not want to give his second name for fear of reprisals, said he had a message for Hezbollah.

“If you can’t continue to fight, announce you are withdrawing and that you have lost. There is no shame in losing,” he said.

But Raed Ayyash, a displaced man from the south of the country, said he hoped Hezbollah would keep fighting.

“We hope for victory and we will never give up,” he said.

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