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Israeli fighter jets attacked Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a post on social media platform X. A video published Tuesday showed a series of missiles hitting Hezbollah infrastructure, which Israel said were weapons, posts and sites in Lebanon. The strikes come after Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a series of attacks against Israel’s military on Monday. Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati said Monday he was doing everything possible to prevent his country from sliding into war, although the Lebanese government has little leverage over Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran. Source: Arab News

SANAA: Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis on Tuesday pledged more attacks against Israel if its war on Hamas in Gaza continues, saying it had already fired drones and ballistic missiles in three separate operations. “The Yemeni Armed Forces… confirm they will continue to carry out qualitative strikes with missiles and drones until the Israeli aggression stops,” said a Houthi military statement aired on the rebels’ Al-Masirah TV.It said the Houthi militia “launched a large batch of ballistic missiles… and a large number of armed aircraft” toward Israel on Tuesday, in the third such operation since the Gaza assault began on October 7…

GAZA STRIP, Palestinian Territories: Israeli troops pushed deeper into Gaza Tuesday, driving tanks and armored bulldozers through the rubble of shattered buildings, scouring for Hamas militants who carried out the worst attack in the country’s history.As Israel stepped up its relentless bombing of Gaza, desperate Palestinian families scrabbled through debris searching for survivors and mourned over the bodies of some of the thousands killed, draped in white shrouds. Israeli army footage showed soldiers, who are also seeking to free at least 240 hostages, advancing through a bomb-scarred landscape, with buildings reduced to a mangled mess of stone and twisted metal…

According to the media, the aid, which has amassed to hundreds of tons, includes water, food and medical supplies TEL AVIV, October 31. /TASS/. At least 39 trucks carrying humanitarian aid entered the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing on the border with Egypt on Monday, The Times of Israel newspaper reports. According to the paper, the total number of trucks with humanitarian aid that have crossed the Rafah border into Gaza in the past ten days reached 171. The aid, which has amassed to hundreds of tons, includes water, food and medical supplies. A spokesperson for the Palestinian Red Crescent Society…

Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Daniel Hagari also stressed that 315 Israeli soldiers have been killed since fighting began on October 7 TEL AVIV, October 31. /TASS/. At least 240 hostages are now being held in Gaza, Israel Defense Forces Spokesman Daniel Hagari said, citing the latest data. “We have notified the families of the 240 hostages,” he said at a news conference. Hagari also said that 315 Israeli soldiers have been killed since fighting began on Oct. 7. “There is fierce fighting in the Gaza Strip. Our troops are currently fighting on the battlefield with courage and valor. These hostilities…

The Palestinian Health Ministry official said that the Al-Shifa Hospital in central Gaza and the Indonesian Hospital in the enclave’s north might run out of fuel for power generators on Wednesday CAIRO, October 31. /TASS/. The number of people killed in the Gaza Strip amid renewed tensions in the Middle East has increased to 8,525, Al Jazeera reported, citing data from the Palestinian Health Ministry. “The Gaza death toll has risen to 8,525, including 3,542 children and 2,187 women,” the media outlet quoted a ministry official as saying. According to him, Israeli forces carried out another strike on a Turkish hospital in…

The Patriarch noted that the Holy Land and its people deserved peace at least in the XXI century MOSCOW, October 31. /TASS/. Patriarch Kirill, of Moscow and All Russia, has called on Christian leaders around the world to stand together in defense of peace and calm in the Holy Land. At a meeting with a delegation from the Assyrian Church of the East headed by His Holiness Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Awa III Patriarch Kirill warned of a possible exodus of Christian refugees due to the escalation of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “The conflict in which Palestinians and Israelis are involved is claiming…

Palestinian authorities in Gaza say more than 50 people killed and 150 others wounded in Israeli air raid on Jabalia refugee camp. Dozens of people have been killed in an Israeli air raid on the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza, according to a medical official and Palestinian authorities in the besieged territory. “More than 50 people have been killed,” Dr Atef al-Kahlout, director of the Indonesian Hospital, told Al Jazeera. He said the hospital was not yet able to provide the total number of casualties as it was still counting the victims. The health ministry in Gaza said more…

The attack comes as Israel ramps up its ground incursion against Hamas fighters in Gaza. Israel has blown up the West Bank house of a senior Hamas official as it aggressively targets the Palestinian group’s leadership amid the war in Gaza. Footage posted on social media on Tuesday appeared to show Saleh al-Arouri’s house completely demolished in the city of Arura, near Ramallah. Al-Arouri, who is believed to live in exile in Lebanon, is the deputy chairman of Hamas’s political bureau. Neither he nor his family were in the house when it was struck. Israeli forces took over al-Arouri’s home 10…

Residents of southern town struggle to find safety from relentless Israeli bombardment. Israeli air raids have continued pounding Rafah in the south of the Gaza Strip, as Israel widens its attack on the besieged enclave. The military campaign, now on its 25th day, has sparked growing international concern about Gaza’s 2.3 million people living under siege. With a fierce urban war now feared as Israel’s tanks and armoured bulldozers drive through the rubble of Gaza’s shattered buildings, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari told Palestinian civilians to go south “to a safer area”. But even in the border town of Rafah,…