Airstrikes launched at Yemen’s Hodeidah port
There are reports of an airstrike on the the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit.
Hodeidah, which has been under Houthi control since 2021, is critical for delivering food and other necessities to the Yemeni population, who depend on imports. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched missiles and drones at Israel and disrupted global trade through the Red Sea in response to Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza.
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The US was not given notice of Israel’s strike that killed Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, according to a top Joe Biden aide.
The Guardian’s Edward Helmore reports:
The White House said on Sunday it had not been warned in advance of the airstrike that killed Hezbollah’s leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a Beirut suburb and assumed it had caused civilian casualties, while reaffirming its “ironclad” support to Israel.
John Kirby, the national security spokesperson, said the US had not been informed of the airstrike, and that the president, Joe Biden, only found out about it once Israeli planes were already in the air.
Speaking to CNN, Kirby also said there was “no question” that civilians had been killed in the attack. “We certainly assume there have been civilian casualties. I don’t think we can quantify it right now but we are in touch with our Israeli counterparts,” Kirby said.
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The Houthi-run health ministry said at least four people were killed and 29 wounded in the airstrikes on Yemen’s port of Hodeidah.
The strikes took place as Israel attacked more targets in Lebanon, where its intensifying bombardment over two weeks has killed a string of top Hezbollah leaders and driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes.
US president Joe Biden said on Sunday he would speak with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and believes that an all-out war in the Middle East must be avoided.
“It has to be,” Biden told reporters as he boarded Air Force One for Washington. “We really have to avoid it.”
The president’s statements come as Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon killed dozens of people on Sunday, AP reported. He would not say when he planned to speak with Netanyahu.
Here are some of the latest images coming through the news wires from Lebanon, where Israeli attacks across the country have killed more than 50 people over the past 24 hours:
Lebanese health ministry: Over 50 killed in latest Israeli strikes
Over 50 people have been killed in Israel’s latest strikes on Lebanon, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
On Sunday, the health ministry reported that 21 people have been killed while 47 others wounded in Israeli attacks on Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon.
The ministry also reported that 32 people have been killed with another 53 wounded in Ain al-Delb, a rise from the ministry’s previously reported numbers of 24 people killed and 29 people wounded in the southern village.
The death toll on Israel’s attack on Ain el-Delb, a southern village in Lebanon, has risen to 32, according to the Lebanese health ministry.
Earlier today, the health ministry said Israeli airstrikes have killed 21 people on Sunday in Baalbek-Hemel, east Lebanon.
Four killed and at least 30 injured in Israeli strikes on Yemen – report
Houthi-run media is reporting that four people have been killed while at least 30 have been injured in Israel’s latest strikes on Yemen, according to Agence France-Presse.
Among the four people killed were a port worker and three engineers, Al-Masirah TV reports.
Thirty-three people have been wounded in the “initial toll”, the outlet added.
Houthi media is reporting that four people have been killed in the latest Israeli airstrikes, according to Agence France-Presse.
Violent clashes between members of Jamaat-e-Islami and Pakistani security forces have taken place in Pakistan following Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination:
Lebanese health ministry: Israeli airstrikes kill 21 people in Baalbek-Hemel
Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli airstrikes have killed 21 people on Sunday in east Lebanon, Agence France Press reports.
“The Israeli enemy raids on Baalbek-Hemel have killed 21 people and wounded 47,” the ministry said, giving a provisional toll.
The bomb that Israel used to kill Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah was US-made, according to US senator Mark Kelly.
On Sunday, Kelly, chair of the US Senate armed services airland subcommittee, told NBC that Israel used a 2,000lb (900kg) Mark 84 series bomb.
“We see more use of guided munitions, JDAMs [Joint Direct Attack Munitions], and we continue to provide those weapons,” Kelly said, Reuters reports.
“That 2,000lb bomb that was used, that’s a Mark 84 series bomb, to take out Nasrallah.”
The Israeli military has not commented on the weapons that were used in the attack that killed Nasrallah and levelled at least six residential buildings, killing several people and injuring dozens more.
Here are some images coming through the newswires of the Israeli strikes on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah:
Peter Beaumont
The Israeli Air Force l said that the raid on Yemen had been carried out by F-15s from Israel’s Tel Nof airbase which were accompanied by support aircraft.
Peter Beaumont
Posting on X, Israel’s defence minister, Yoav Gallant, said the raid proved that no location was too far away for Israel to hit.
“‘I will hunt down my enemies and I will overtake them and I will not return until their end’ (Psalms, chapter 18, verse 38),” wrote Gallant.
”I followed the attack against the Houthis from the control room of the air force. The message is clear – for us, no place is too far,” he added.
אֶרְדּוֹף אוֹיְבַי וְאַשִּׂיגֵם וְלֹא אָשׁוּב עַד כַּלּוֹתָם״ (תהלים, פרק י״ח, פסוק ל״ח).
עקבתי מתא השליטה של חיל האוויר אחרי התקיפה כנגד החות׳ים. המסר ברור – עבורנו, אין מקום רחוק מידי. pic.twitter.com/1VcS8UvxzW
— יואב גלנט – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) September 29, 2024
Peter Beaumont
As well as striking Houthi targets, it seems clear that the large and sophisticated air raid on Yemen was designed to send a message to Iran that the Israeli Air Force was willing and able to launch air raids from a significant distance away.
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Senior Houthi official Nasr ad-Din Amer, who also serves as the head of the Saba Yemeni news agency, posted on Twitter/X:
The attacks failed. Precautions were taken, the oil tanks were emptied in advance at the port of Ras Issa and Hodeidah, and there was an emergency plan. The Zionists will not stop our operations under any circumstances, we will make them more qualitative.