Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon, hits Houthis in Yemen as conflict widens

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: The Israeli military on Sunday said it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

The military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, was killed on Saturday. 

Hezbollah confirmed his death, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. They include founding members who had evaded death or detention for decades.

The Israeli military said it carried out another targeted strike on Beirut later on Sunday, with details to follow.

Hezbollah began firing rockets, missiles and drones into northern Israel after Hamas' October 7 attack out of Gaza triggered the war there. Hezbollah and Hamas are allies that consider themselves part of an Iran-backed “Axis of Resistance" against Israel.

Israel responded with waves of airstrikes, and the conflict has steadily ratcheted up to the brink of all-out war, raising fears of a region-wide conflagration.

Israel says it is determined to return some 60,000 of its citizens to communities in the north that were evacuated nearly a year ago. Hezbollah has said it will only halt its rocket fire if there is a cease-fire in Gaza, which has proven elusive despite months of indirect negotiations between Israel and Hamas led by the United States, Qatar and Egypt.

29 Sep 2024, 10:46:23 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Netanyahu appoints former rival Gideon Saar to his Cabinet, gives spot in Security cabinet

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates:  Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday appointed a former rival, Gideon Saar, as a member of his Cabinet. The move expands Netanyahu’s governing coalition and helps entrench the Israeli leader in office, AP reported.

Under their agreement, Netanyahu said, Saar will be given a spot in the Security cabinet, the body that oversees the management of the ongoing war.

29 Sep 2024, 10:30:47 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israel strikes Houthi targets in Yemen 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israeli fighter jets bombed a seaport and several power stations in Yemen following a string of attacks this month on central Israel by Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

The strikes in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah and in Ras Issa targeted oil infrastructure, the Israeli army said in a statement

29 Sep 2024, 10:25:51 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: From Hassan Nasrallah to Ibrahim Aqil — a look at leaders, key people eliminated in airstrikes 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israeli airstrikes have significantly weakened Hezbollah, killing key officials including Hassan Nasrallah and at least a dozen members this year. The ongoing Gaza conflict has also claimed prominent Hamas leaders and Iranian military figures — spurring concern about major a regional escalation. Read more 

29 Sep 2024, 10:20:23 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israel’s Gallant says ‘no place is too far’ 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant says he monitored the country’s attack on Yemen from a control room, Al Jazeera reported.

“The message is clear – for us, no place is too far," Gallant wrote on X.

The army said earlier that “dozens" of airforce aircraft were used to attack the areas of Ras Isa and Hodeidah in Yemen.

29 Sep 2024, 10:15:59 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Death toll in Lebanon

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: At least 21 people have so far been killed and nearly 50 wounded as a result of Israeli strikes today in eastern Lebanon, the country’s health ministry said.

29 Sep 2024, 10:14:51 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Civil Unrest unleashing in Lebanon?

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: As fears mount over potential civil unrest in Lebanon, the army said today that it had arrested over 130 prisoners who had escaped from a detention facility in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon news agency reported a similar outbreak of unrest at another prison, in the country’s east, a day earlier, although it was swiftly diminished after the army intervened.

29 Sep 2024, 09:36:23 PM IST

 Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates:Iran condemns Israel's strike on power plant and fuel depot at Yemen's Hodeidah port

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Kanaani condemns Israel's strike on power plant and fuel depot at Yemen's Hodeidah port (Reuters)

29 Sep 2024, 09:25:25 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Pope Francis hints Israel's actions in Gaza, Lebanon disproportionate, immoral

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Pope Francis suggested Sunday that Israel's attacks in Gaza and Lebanon have been “immoral" and disproportionate, saying its military domination has gone beyond the rules of war, AP reported.

Francis didn't mention Israel by name and said he was speaking in general terms. But he said that “the defense must always be proportionate to the attack."

“When there is something disproportionate, there is a dominating tendency that goes beyond morality," he said. “A country that does these things — and I'm talking about any country — in a superlative way, these are immoral actions."

29 Sep 2024, 08:51:14 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israeli attack on Ain al-Delb kills 24 in preliminary toll, Lebanon's Health Ministry 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Israeli attack on Ain ai-Deleb in southern Lebanon killed 24 in preliminary toll, Lebanon's Health Ministry said. 

"The Israeli enemy's attack on Ain al-Delb killed, in a preliminary toll, 24 people and injured 29," AFP quoted the ministry's statement

29 Sep 2024, 08:44:18 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Anti-Israel protests in Kashmir against Hassan Nasrallah's killing

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Anti-Israel protests continued for the second day on Sunday in several areas of Kashmir against the killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, reported PTI.

A large number of men, women and children -- carrying black flags -- poured out on roads in Magam in Budgam and Zadibal in the city to protest against the killing.

29 Sep 2024, 08:38:01 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Iranian spy revealed location of Hezbollah chief

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: According to French newspaper Le Parisien, an Iranian mole had informed Israel about the location of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah ahead of the airstrike. The slain leader had been attending a meeting with several top members of the group when missiles stuck its underground headquarters in Beirut on Friday. Read more 

29 Sep 2024, 08:34:49 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Body of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah recovered 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: The body of slain Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was recovered today.

According to a Reuters report quoting sources, the body was found intact with no direct wounds. The cause of death appeared to be blunt trauma from the force of the blast.

29 Sep 2024, 08:25:56 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Hezbollah's command structure “wiped out”, says John Kirby

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: White House national security spokesman John Kirby said on Sunday that Israel's airstrikes had “wiped out" Hezbollah's command structure, but he warned the group will work quickly to rebuild it.

“I think people are safer without him walking around," Kirby said of Nasrallah. “But they will try to recover. We're watching to see what they do to try to fill this leadership vacuum. It's going to be tough. … Much of their command structure has now been wiped out," AP quoted Kirby as saying.

29 Sep 2024, 08:11:35 PM IST

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: Hezbollah confirms a 7th top commander was killed in Israeli strikes 

Israel-Hezbollah War Live Updates: The Israeli military said Sunday it has killed another high-ranking Hezbollah official in an airstrike as the Lebanese militant group was reeling from a string of devastating blows and the killing of its overall leader, Hassan Nasrallah.

The military said Nabil Kaouk, the deputy head of Hezbollah's Central Council, was killed on Saturday. Hezbollah confirmed his death, making him the seventh senior Hezbollah leader slain in Israeli strikes in a little over a week. They include founding members who had evaded death or detention for decades.