Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Tel Aviv will 'harm whoever harms us' as the Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out war.
Israel has launched a series of pre-emptive air strikes against Hezbollah in Lebanon in a major escalation amid plans for a large-scale attack.
The IDF has today launched two rounds of missiles at southern Lebanon, with the second coming hours after about 100 fighter jets 'struck and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launcher barrels' aimed at northern Israel. The military also released black-and-white images showing smoke rising from what it said was a strike on southern Lebanon.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Tel Aviv will 'harm whoever harms us' as the Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out war Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Middle East conflict explodes as Israel drops bombs inside Lebanon while Hezbollah fires 150 rockets Health minister Firass Abiad said it was 'too early to tell' if the death and injury toll would rise but said that Israel's attack had mostly hit 'forested and open areas.'
Flights to and from Beirut Rafic Hariri international airport remain suspended, however, amid Israeli strikes. Hezbollah announced it had launched an attack on Israel with a 'large number of drones' as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, a top commander with the group, in a strike in Beirut's southern suburbs last month.
It said the attack was targeting 'a qualitative Israeli military target that will be announced later' as well as 'targeting a number of enemy sites and barracks and Iron Dome platforms'. Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasralla is set to address the shock attack at 3pm today in a televised speech. Israeli said today it still plans to send a delegation to Cairo for ceasefire talks with Hamas. Hamas leaders are also in the Egyptian capital, but it is not currently known whether they will take part in talks, following the attacks.
A Hezbollah unmanned aerial vehicle crossing from Lebanon gets intercepted by an Israeli fighter jet over an area near the Lebanon-Israel border, as seen from northern Israel, 25 August 2024Last week, Israel's defence minister said he was moving more troops towards the Lebanese border in anticipation of possible fighting with the Iranian-backed group.
His foreign minister, Israel Katz, later added that the nation 'will do whatever it takes to protect citizens.' Israel's military spokesman, rear admiral Daniel Hagari, said: 'In a self-defence act to remove these threats, the is striking terror targets in Lebanon'Lebanese media reported strikes in the country's south without immediately providing more details. Social media footage showed what appeared to be strikes in southern Lebanon.
The UK's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, Pat McFadden, told Sky News he was 'very concerned' with the developments in the Middle East. Read MoreBREAKING NEWS Cars are set on fire and police officer injured by explosion next to French synagogue 'We hope that this is not a long-term outbreak of major hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.'
A phone call lured Hezbollah chief Fuad Shukr towards the top of a Beirut building he was in minutes before he was assassinated by an Israeli airstrike last month
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