Middle East crisis live: UN says Israel’s activities in Lebanon ‘extremely dangerous’ as IDF declares ‘closed military zones’

Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said his country is closely coordinating with the US as it prepares to strike back at Iran, but that Tel Aviv will make its own independent decisions about how to retaliate.

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Despite the US having made clear that it opposes a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Gallant told CNN on Sunday that “everything is on the table”. He said:

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Israel has capabilities to hit targets near and far – we have proved it. We will respond to the Iranian attack appropriately. We will not stand by and neither should the international community.

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As we reported earlier, Gallant is expected to visit the US this coming week where he is scheduled to meet with the US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin.

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The UN’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) has said it is deeply concerned by what it called Israel’s “recent activities” adjacent to the mission’s position inside Lebanon.

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In a statement posted to X on Sunday, Unifil said the activities by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are an “extremely dangerous development”, adding:

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It is unacceptable to compromise the safety of UN peacekeepers carrying out their Security Council-mandated tasks.

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The UN force “urgently” reminded all actors of “their obligations to protect UN personnel and property,” it said.

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UNIFIL is deeply concerned by recent activities by the IDF immediately adjacent to the Mission’s position 6-52, southeast of Marun ar Ras (Sector West), inside Lebanese territory.

The IDF has been repeatedly informed of this ongoing situation through regular channels.

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) October 6, 2024

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The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ordered a “closed military zone” around three towns on the border with Lebanon.

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In a statement, the IDF said it is “strictly prohibited” to enter the communities of Manara, Yiftach, and Malkia.

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The IDF has imposed a new closed military zone on the Lebanon border, in the areas of the communities of Manara, Yiftah, and Malkia.

The military says the move follows a fresh assessment amid ground operations inside southern Lebanon.

It is the third close military zone imposed… pic.twitter.com/3nX7xcm5rh

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 6, 2024

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A call by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, for a halt in arms supplies to Israel for use in Gaza has been met with an angry rebuttal from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

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The French president’s comments were directed mainly at the US and were part of continuing French efforts to revive its call for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In an interview recorded on Monday, but broadcast on Saturday, Macron told France Inter radio:

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I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop supplying weapons to lead the fighting in Gaza.

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“France is not supplying them,” he immediately clarified, indirectly turning the spotlight on the US, Israel’s main arms supplier. He also warned about “a resentment that is being born, a hatred that is being fuelled by this” . Lebanon could not be turned into another Gaza, he added.

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His comments brought a swift response from Netanyahu. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilised countries should be standing firmly by Israel’s side,” he said in a statement.

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Yet, President Macron and other western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel. Shame on them.

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The US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, will host his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

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The pair will “discuss ongoing Middle East security developments,” the Pentagon said on Sunday.

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It will be Gallant’s third US visit since the start of the war a year ago, after trips in March and June, the Times of Israel reports.

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The Israeli minister is expected to meet with other senior Biden administration officials as well, it says.

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Iran’s aviation body has announced the cancellation of flights at the country’s airports, citing “operational restrictions”, according to state media.

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Iran’s civil organisation said that “the flights at some airports of the country will be cancelled from 21:00 tonight (1730 GMT), Sunday, 6 October, until 6:00 am tomorrow, 7 October,” IRNA state news agency reported.

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Iran implemented flight restrictions on Tuesday when it launched ballistic missiles at Israel earlier this week, an attack that Israel has vowed to retaliate.

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About 40% of Lebanon’s 1.25 million school pupils have become displaced by ongoing Israeli attacks, director general of education Imad Achkar has said.

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“There are 1.25 million pupils in Lebanese schools,” Achkar said, adding that “40 percent of them have been displaced” by Israeli bombardment.

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UN officials said on Friday most of Lebanon’s nearly 900 shelters were full and that people fleeing Israeli military airstrikes were increasingly sleeping out in the open on the street or in public parks.

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Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, said 1.2 million people – out of Lebanon’s total 2022 population of 5.49 million (according to UN data) – have been forced from their homes by Israel’s intensifying air and ground attacks.

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The Lebanese government said earlier today that the start of the academic year will be delayed until 4 November due to “security risks” (see earlier post at 11.13 for more details).

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  Police and emergency responders said at least one person was killed and 10 others injured in a shooting attack at a bus station in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba. The attacker has been killed and the shooting is being treated as a “suspected terrorist attack”.

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  The Israeli foreign ministry said its air force has killed Hezbollah commander, Hader Ali Taweel. The statement said Taweel, along with Mohamed Hader and Hassan Nteer el Rasheeni who were killed earlier in the week, were responsible for an anti-tank missile that hit Israel’s northern border in January.

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  The Israeli military issued new evacuation alerts for residents of about 25 areas in southern Lebanon, calling on them to head immediately to the north of the Awali river.

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  Israel’s military has said it anticipates possible long-range rocket fire from the Gaza Strip ahead of the anniversary of the Hamas-led 7 October attacks, according to reports from the Times of Israel.

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  Gaza’s health ministry said 26 people were killed by Israeli strikes on a school, and a mosque serving as a shelter in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Saturday. The ministry said at least 41,870 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since last October.

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  There were reports of intense Israeli airstrikes over Beirut from late Saturday into Sunday. The Lebanese health ministry said 23 people were killed in Israeli bombing across Lebanon yesterday, which targeted areas including those in southern Lebanon and in the eastern region of Bekaa.

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A woman has been killed and several people injured in a shooting attack at a bus station in Israel’s southern city of Beersheba, police have said.

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Police say the suspected “terror attack” took place in the last hour while Israel’s ambulance service have now said eight people are being treated.

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Officers say the attacker has been killed.

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Update to the terror attack by the Be'er Sheva Central Bus Station.

MDA EMTs and Paramedics are treating 8 casualties: 1 in moderate to serious condition, 4 in moderate condition and 3 in mild condition. 1 casualty in critical condition is being treated on scene by MDA teams. pic.twitter.com/FQsAFi9jFN

— Magen David Adom (@Mdais) October 6, 2024

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The UN has said 20,000 Palestinian refugees have been forcibly displaced by Israeli airstrikes on camps in Lebanon.

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The UN agency for Palestine refugees (Unrwa) said it has activated emergency shelters for over 4,300 displaced people, including Palestinian refugees, Lebanese and Syrians.

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“We have been preparing for this emergency for weeks and months,” Dorothee Klaus, Unrwa’s director in Lebanon, said.

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As violence escalates in #Lebanon, around 20,000 Palestine Refugees have been forcibly displaced following Israeli airstrikes on camps.@UNRWA activated emergency shelters for over 4,300 displaced people, including Palestine Refugees, Lebanese and Syrians. The Agency stands… pic.twitter.com/MNNri19dMw

— UNRWA (@UNRWA) October 6, 2024

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The Israeli foreign ministry has said its air force has killed Hezbollah commander, Hader Ali Taweel.

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The statement said Taweel, along with Mohamed Hader and Hassan Nteer el Rasheeni who were killed earlier in the week, were responsible for an anti-tank missile that hit Israel’s northern border in January.

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The missile resulted in the deaths of a member of Kfar Yuval’s emergency response squad, Barak Ayalon, and his 76-year-old mother.

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Hezbollah is yet to comment on the statement.

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⭕️ 𝐄𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐝: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐊𝐟𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐥𝐚 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐇𝐞𝐳𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐡 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Following IDF intelligence, the IAF struck and eliminated the terrorist Hader Ali Taweel, who served as the Kfarkela…

— Israel Foreign Ministry (@IsraelMFA) October 6, 2024

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The Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson has issued new evacuation alerts for residents of about 25 areas in southern Lebanon, calling on them to head immediately to the north of the Awali river (which is north of the southern Lebanese city of Sidon).

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“Anyone who is near Hezbollah members, installations or weapons is putting his life in danger,” Avichay Adraee said. “Village residents, you must evacuate your homes,” he said. Houla, Meiss el-Jabal and Bilda are among the villages told to evacuate.

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“We will inform you of the appropriate and safe time to return to your homes,” Adraee added.

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Israel’s military has said it anticipates possible long-range rocket fire from the Gaza Strip ahead of the anniversary of the 7 October attacks, according to reports from the Times of Israel.

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Military sources told the newspaper it is bolstering its defences along the Gaza border and in the Netzarim Corridor area in the Strip’s centre, where the IDF maintains a semi-permanent presence, in anticipation of possible attacks.

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The IDF said it is also coordinating with police and medical services in Israeli border towns.

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“The Southern Command is prepared in defence and attack for several scenarios during the coming month, along with allowing memorial events in the [Gaza border communities] to be carried out safely,” the IDF said in a statement seen by the newspaper.

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Although much of Hamas’ military organisation has been dismantled, Israeli operatives said it can still carry out rocket attacks.

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This week marks one year since the 7 October attacks on Israel, where Hamas militants and allied groups killed about 1,200 people and took 251 hostage.

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Gaza’s health ministry has issued an update on the amount of people killed by Israeli strikes on a school, and a mosque serving as a shelter in Deir al-Balah, central Gaza, on Saturday. The previous death toll was 24. It has been increased to 26. Dozens of people were reported to have been injured. The Israeli military claimed it had targeted Hamas militants in the strikes.

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At least 41,870 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since 7 October, according to latest figures released by Gaza’s health ministry.

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The health ministry also reported at least 97,166 people have been injured. The ministry previously said thousands of other dead people are most likely lost in the rubble of the enclave.

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The Guardian’s Jason Burke and Malak A Tantesh spoke with families in Gaza about their year of loss and displacement. You can read more about this here.

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Reporters from Wafa, the Palestinian news agency, have been told by medical sources that 23 out of 38 hospitals in the Gaza Strip are now out of service amid relentless Israeli airstrikes which have targeted healthcare facilities over the nearly year-long war.

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Local health authorities further reported that 986 healthcare workers have been killed during the war, with Israeli attacks reportedly rendering 130 ambulances inoperable. These figures have not been independently verified by the Guardian.

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The following is from a press release from Doctors without Borders published earlier this week. Citing data from a UN humanitarian update on 23 September 2024, the charity said 17 out of 36 hospitals are partially functional amid crippling shortages of fuel, medicine and essential supplies.

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The press release reads:

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As medical needs are growing exponentially, people’s options for care are shrinking. Israeli forces have committed widespread and systematic attacks on Gaza’s health care system and other vital civilian infrastructure. The health care system is now on the edge of collapse.

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Today, only 17 out of 36 hospitals are partially functional. Warring parties have conducted hostilities near medical facilities, endangering patients, caretakers, and medical staff. Six MSF colleagues have been killed. From October 2023, staff and patients from MSF have had to leave 14 different health structures, due to serious incidents and ongoing fighting.

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Each time a medical facility is evacuated, thousands of people lose access to lifesaving medical care. This will have consequences on people’s health, not just in the immediate term, but in the weeks and months to come.

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  Israel strikes hit south Beirut and its outskirts on Saturday night, official Lebanese media reported. “Israeli enemy warplanes carried out four very violent strikes on [Beirut’s] southern suburbs, and one strike on the Chweifat” area, with ambulances rushing to the site, Lebanon’s National news agency said. Correspondents in Beirut reported hearing explosions, and footage from the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency showed plumes of smoke rising from the targeted areas.

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  At least 24 people have been reported killed in the strike on a school and mosque in Gaza. Eyewitnesses and a nearby hospital told news agencies that the mosque was being used to house displaced people.

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  An Israel military spokesperson said the country would retaliate against Iran for the Iranian missile attack at “the timing which we decide”. “The way in which we respond to this disgraceful attack will be in the manner, at the location and the timing which we decide, according to the political leadership’s instructions,” Rear Adm Daniel Hagari said in a broadcast statement on Saturday.

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  Iran said any attack by Israel would be met with an “even stronger” retaliation, as tensions continue to rise between the two countries. “Our reaction to any attack by the Zionist regime is completely clear,” Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, told reporters in Damascus, Syria. “For every action, there will be a proportional and similar reaction from Iran, and even stronger.”

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  Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, said Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, was a “disgrace” for calling for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel. “The axis of terror stands together. But countries who supposedly oppose this [axis] call for an arms embargo on Israel. What a disgrace,” Netanyahu said. “Well let me tell you this Israel will win with or without their support but their shame will continue long after the war is won.” Macron’s office responded with a statement of its own later Saturday, describing Netanyahu’s reaction as “excessive and detached from the friendship between France and Israel”. It said France was still “a steadfast friend of Israel”.

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  The president of Ireland sharply criticised Israel’s demand that UN peacekeepers leave their positions in southern Lebanon. “It is outrageous that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have threatened this peacekeeping force and sought to have them evacuate the villages they are defending,” Michael Higgins said. The IDF had requested that peacekeepers operating on the “blue line” between Israel and the Golan Heights “relocate”.

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Here is our latest wrap of the events overnight.

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Heavy consecutive strikes hit Beirut’s southern suburbs from late Saturday into Sunday, witnesses said, while Gaza’s civil defence agency said 21 people were killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli airstrike on a mosque in central Gaza early on Sunday.

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The strike on the mosque, near the Al-Aqsa hospital in Deir al-Balah, came as the war between Israel and Hamas in the Palestinian territory approaches its first anniversary on 7 October. Witnesses said the number of casualties could rise as the mosque was being used to house displaced people, while the Israeli military said it was being used as a Hamas command centre.

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In the Lebanese capital, the Israeli strikes sent booms across the city and sparked flashes of red and white for nearly 30 minutes visible from several kilometres away.

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The strikes came after days of Israeli bombing of Beirut suburbs considered strongholds for the Iran-backed armed group Hezbollah, killing its leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, and possibly his potential successor. A Lebanese security source said on Saturday that Hashem Safieddine, the potential successor, had been out of contact since Friday, after an Israeli airstrike near the city’s international airport that was reported to have targeted him.

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Read more:

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The death toll from the Israeli strike on the Gaza mosque has risen to 24, according to local authorities. The Hamas-run Gaza government media office said 93 people were also wounded in the strikes on the mosque and the school, near the Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip.

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The al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital told the Associated Press that the strike hit a mosque sheltering displaced people. Eyewitnesses told Reuters the same. However Israeli forces say the mosque was being used as a Hamas command and control centre “to plan and carry out terrorist operations against the IDF forces and the State of Israel”, and that it took steps to reduce the chance of harming civilians. An AP reporter counted 18 bodies at the hospital morgue, and said hospital records listed all those killed as men.

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The Australian protests on Sunday are among many held across the world this weekend.

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Thousands also took to the streets in the US and across Europe on Saturday. In London, thousands marched through the capital to Downing Street amid a heavy police presence. The atmosphere was tense as pro-Palestinian protesters and counter-demonstrators, some holding Israeli flags, passed one another. Scuffles broke out as police officers pushed back activists trying to get past a cordon. At least 17 people were arrested, London’s Metropolitan Police said.

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In the northern German city of Hamburg, about 950 people staged a peaceful demonstration with many waving Palestinian and Lebanese flags or chanting “Stop the Genocide,” the DPA news agency reported, citing a count by police. Two smaller pro-Israeli counterdemonstrations took place without incident, it said.

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Several thousands protesters gathered peacefully at Paris’ Republique Plaza in a show of solidarity with the Palestinian and Lebanese people. Many were waving Palestinian flags while holding posters reading ”stop the genocide,” “free Palestine,” and “hands off Lebanon.”

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In Rome police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse demonstrators after a rally turned violent. Several thousands had demonstrated peacefully Saturday afternoon until a smaller group tried to push the rally toward the centre of the city, in spite of a ban by local authorities who refused to authorise protests, citing security concerns.

n Some protesters, dressed in black and with their faces covered threw stones, bottles and paper bombs at the police, who responded with tear gas and water cannons, eventually dispersing the crowd. At least 30 law enforcement officers and three demonstrators were injured in the clashes, local media reported.

n Pro-Palestinian demonstrators also gathered at New York’s Times Square to call for a cease-fire, chanting “Gaza!” to a drumbeat. Some wore keffiyeh scarfs, waved Palestinian and Lebanese flags and held a large cardboard image of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with red paint symbolizing blood across his face.

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In the last few hours Beirut has been under intense air strikes by Israeli forces. Local media have described the strikes as the most severe of the conflict so far, with some landing near the airport where flights are taking off with hundreds of foreign evacuees. Explosions have been reported and photographed across the city.

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Israel has also continued to target Gaza and the West Bank, with air strikes on a mosque in Gaza killing at least five people, according to Reuters. Al Jazeera reports up to 18 fatalities at the mosque, which eyewitnesses told Reuters was being used to house displaced people. The Israeli air force said the mosque was being used by Hamas as a command centre, and that it took steps to reduce harm to civilians.

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  Israel strikes hit south Beirut and its outskirts on Saturday night, official Lebanese media reported. “Israeli enemy warplanes carried out four very violent strikes on [Beirut’s] southern suburbs, and one strike on the Chweifat” area, with ambulances rushing to the site, Lebanon’s National News Agency said. Correspondents in Beirut reported hearing explosions, and Agence France-Presse footage showed plumes of smoke rising from the targeted areas.

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  An Israel military spokesman said the country would retaliate against Iran for the Iranian missile attack at “the timing which we decide”. “The way in which we respond to this disgraceful attack will be in the manner, at the location and the timing which we decide, according to the political leadership’s instructions,” Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari said in a broadcast statement on Saturday, according to a Reuters report.

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  Iran said any attack by Israel would be met with an “even stronger” retaliation, as tensions continue to rise between the two countries. “Our reaction to any attack by the Zionist regime is completely clear,” Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s foreign minister, told reporters in Damascus, Syria. “For every action, there will be a proportional and similar reaction from Iran, and even stronger.”

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  Benjamin Netanyahu said Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, was a “disgrace” for calling for a halt on arms deliveries to Israel. “The axis of terror stands together. But countries who supposedly oppose this [axis] call for an arms embargo on Israel. What a disgrace,” the Israeli prime minister said. “Well let me tell you this Israel will win with or without their support but their shame will continue long after the war is won.”

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  Macron’s office responded with a statement of its own later Saturday, describing Netanyahu’s reaction as “excessive and detached from the friendship between France and Israel”. It said France was still “a steadfast friend of Israel”.

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  The president of Ireland sharply criticised Israel’s demand that UN peacekeepers leave their positions in southern Lebanon. “It is outrageous that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have threatened this peacekeeping force and sought to have them evacuate the villages they are defending,” Michael Higgins said. The IDF had requested that peacekeepers operating on the “blue line” between Israel and the Golan Heights “relocate”.

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Israel defence minister says ‘everything is on the table’ for retaliation against Iran

Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, has said his country is closely coordinating with the US as it prepares to strike back at Iran, but that Tel Aviv will make its own independent decisions about how to retaliate.

Despite the US having made clear that it opposes a strike on Iranian nuclear facilities, Gallant told CNN on Sunday that “everything is on the table”. He said:

Israel has capabilities to hit targets near and far – we have proved it. We will respond to the Iranian attack appropriately. We will not stand by and neither should the international community.

As we reported earlier, Gallant is expected to visit the US this coming week where he is scheduled to meet with the US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin.

A US state department spokesperson has said that military pressure “can at times enable diplomacy” but that it can also “lead to unintended consequences”.

In a statement reported by Reuters, the spokesperson said the US state department supported Israel going after extremist targets but did not want the targeting of civilian infrastructure, adding:

Every civilian casualty is one too many.

The UN high commissioner for refugees, Filippo Grandi, has said that Lebanon is seeing a “major displacement crisis” as a result of Israel’s escalating airstrikes, some of which have violated international law.

Grandi was speaking during a visit to Beirut on Sunday, where he met with the country’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati.

He also said there had been “many instances of violations of international humanitarian law in the way the airstrikes have been conducted that have destroyed or damaged civilian infrastructure.”

The UN agency confirmed that two of its workers were killed in Lebanon. Dina Darwiche, an UNHCR workers for 12 years, was killed when an Israeli missile hit the building where she and her husband and young children lived.

I met Prime Minister Mikati to express UNHCR’s solidarity and discuss how to support those affected by the conflict in Lebanon.

The government has set up collective shelters for the displaced. But the scale of needs is overwhelming. More support is urgently needed.@grandserail pic.twitter.com/uKAJ4LGEG2

— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) October 6, 2024

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I met Prime Minister Mikati to express UNHCR’s solidarity and discuss how to support those affected by the conflict in Lebanon.

The government has set up collective shelters for the displaced. But the scale of needs is overwhelming. More support is urgently needed.@grandserail pic.twitter.com/uKAJ4LGEG2

— Filippo Grandi (@FilippoGrandi) October 6, 2024

Lebanese government officials estimate that 1.2 million people are now displaced.

As we reported earlier, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) said that 20,000 Palestinian refugees have been forcibly displaced by Israeli strikes on camps in Lebanon.

Thousands of people gathered in London on Sunday to take part in a memorial for the victims of the 7 October Hamas terror attacks on southern Israel.

Speakers included Mandy Damari, whose daughter Emily Damari, 28, is the only British-Israeli hostage still being held by Hamas in Gaza.

Speaking at the memorial, she said her her daughter’s “plight seems to have been forgotten”.

In a statement on Sunday, Israel’s army chief, Lt Gen Herzi Halevi said Israeli troops have “dealt a severe blow to Hezbollah, which has lost all of its senior leadership.”

“We are not stopping,” he added ahead of the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on 7 October. Halevi said:

This is a long war, measured not only by capabilities but also by the willpower and perseverance over time.

UN peacekeepers in Lebanon say Israel’s recent military activities an ‘extremely dangerous’

The UN’s peacekeeping force in Lebanon (Unifil) has said it is deeply concerned by what it called Israel’s “recent activities” adjacent to the mission’s position inside Lebanon.

In a statement posted to X on Sunday, Unifil said the activities by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) are an “extremely dangerous development”, adding:

It is unacceptable to compromise the safety of UN peacekeepers carrying out their Security Council-mandated tasks.

The UN force “urgently” reminded all actors of “their obligations to protect UN personnel and property,” it said.

UNIFIL is deeply concerned by recent activities by the IDF immediately adjacent to the Mission’s position 6-52, southeast of Marun ar Ras (Sector West), inside Lebanese territory.

The IDF has been repeatedly informed of this ongoing situation through regular channels.

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) October 6, 2024

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UNIFIL is deeply concerned by recent activities by the IDF immediately adjacent to the Mission’s position 6-52, southeast of Marun ar Ras (Sector West), inside Lebanese territory.

The IDF has been repeatedly informed of this ongoing situation through regular channels.

— UNIFIL (@UNIFIL_) October 6, 2024

Israeli military declares three areas on Lebanon border ‘closed military zones’

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) has ordered a “closed military zone” around three towns on the border with Lebanon.

In a statement, the IDF said it is “strictly prohibited” to enter the communities of Manara, Yiftach, and Malkia.

The IDF has imposed a new closed military zone on the Lebanon border, in the areas of the communities of Manara, Yiftah, and Malkia.

The military says the move follows a fresh assessment amid ground operations inside southern Lebanon.

It is the third close military zone imposed… pic.twitter.com/3nX7xcm5rh

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 6, 2024

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The IDF has imposed a new closed military zone on the Lebanon border, in the areas of the communities of Manara, Yiftah, and Malkia.

The military says the move follows a fresh assessment amid ground operations inside southern Lebanon.

It is the third close military zone imposed… pic.twitter.com/3nX7xcm5rh

— Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian (@manniefabian) October 6, 2024

France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, spoke with Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, on Sunday in a phone call that the Élysée Palace described as “frank”.

Both leaders accepted their divergence of views, as well as their desire to be well understood by each other, Macron’s office said in a statement after the call.

“France’s commitment to Israel’s security is unwavering,” Macron was quoted as telling Netanyahu.

But the French leader added that arms deliveries, the prolongation of the war in Gaza and its extension to Lebanon will not produce security for either Israelis or others living in the region.

In a readout of the call by Netanyahu’s office, the two leaders agreed to maintain a dialogue on the matter during a visit by France’s foreign minister, Jean-Noel Barrot, to Israel on Monday.

Patrick Wintour

France provides few arms to Israel but is keen to strengthen its longstanding influence in Lebanon by showing it wants the US to put some genuine pressure on Israel to accept a ceasefire.

Washington appeared to mount little diplomatic resistance when Israel – after sending mixed signals – rejected a US-French plan for a 21 day ceasefire in Lebanon announced at the UN in New York nearly a fortnight ago.

Macron’s remarks, welcomed by the Lebanese, Qatari and Egyptian governments as well as the Palestinian Authority, may reflect French concern that some officials in the White House appeared to be willing to be relaxed to the point of welcoming the Israeli rejection of the French-US plan for a 21-day ceasefire. Few US officials have condemned Israel for escalating the conflict.

Macron, in an interview broadcast on Saturday, also announced he was convening an international conference on aid to Lebanon and the establishment of Lebanese government armed troops on the border with Israel.

Netanyahu hits out at Macron over call for halt to arms exports to Israel

Patrick Wintour

A call by France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, for a halt in arms supplies to Israel for use in Gaza has been met with an angry rebuttal from the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

The French president’s comments were directed mainly at the US and were part of continuing French efforts to revive its call for a ceasefire in Lebanon. In an interview recorded on Monday, but broadcast on Saturday, Macron told France Inter radio:

I think that today, the priority is that we return to a political solution, that we stop supplying weapons to lead the fighting in Gaza.

“France is not supplying them,” he immediately clarified, indirectly turning the spotlight on the US, Israel’s main arms supplier. He also warned about “a resentment that is being born, a hatred that is being fuelled by this” . Lebanon could not be turned into another Gaza, he added.

His comments brought a swift response from Netanyahu. “As Israel fights the forces of barbarism led by Iran, all civilised countries should be standing firmly by Israel’s side,” he said in a statement.

Yet, President Macron and other western leaders are now calling for arms embargoes against Israel. Shame on them.

US and Israeli defence ministers to meet at Pentagon

The US defense secretary, Lloyd Austin, will host his Israeli counterpart, Yoav Gallant, at the Pentagon on Wednesday.

The pair will “discuss ongoing Middle East security developments,” the Pentagon said on Sunday.

It will be Gallant’s third US visit since the start of the war a year ago, after trips in March and June, the Times of Israel reports.

The Israeli minister is expected to meet with other senior Biden administration officials as well, it says.

As we reported earlier, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, visited troops along the border with Lebanon on Sunday.

Netanyahu visited the Lebanon border for a situation assessment with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) northern command head, Maj Gen Uri Gordin, and division commander Brig Gen Moran Omer, his office said.

“A year ago we suffered a terrible blow,” Netanyahu said during the visit, according to his office. He added:

Over the past 12 months, we are changing reality from end to end.

Netanyahu, addressing his troops, said:

The whole world is amazed by the blows you are delivering to our enemies, and I salute you … Together we will fight, and together we will win.