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Israel-Hamas War: What happened on day 351?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel's Air Force strikes Lebanon, 22 September 2024 (photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)
Israel's Air Force strikes Lebanon, 22 September 2024
(photo credit: SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT)

Hezbollah rockets hit house, crash on Highway 89 near Safed

Police officers and bomb disposal units from the Northern District have arrived at the sites where rockets fell and they are scanning to remove any materials that are dangerous to the public. 

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF, AVI ASHKENAZI, DR. ITAY GAL
 A member of a rescue team speaks to a man as rescue teams work to extinguish flames on a house following a rocket attack from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in northern Israel, September 21, 2024. (photo credit: REUTERS/JIM URQUHART)
A member of a rescue team speaks to a man as rescue teams work to extinguish flames on a house following a rocket attack from Lebanon, amid cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, in northern Israel, September 21, 2024.
(photo credit: REUTERS/JIM URQUHART)

A house was directly hit by a Hezbollah rocket in Keitiya near Safed after dozens of rockets were launched to the north on Saturday afternoon, Walla reported.

Additionally, a rocket fired by Hezbollah crashed on Highway 89 near Safed, according to Israel police. Shortly after, the road was briefly blocked to traffic. 

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WATCH: IDF footage of armed terrorists who robbed the aid truck on the humanitarian route

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF footage of the armed terrorists who robbed the aid truck on the humanitarian route in Gaza. September 21, 2024. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
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WATCH: IDF footage of armed terrorists who robbed the aid truck on the humanitarian route

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF footage of the armed terrorists who robbed the aid truck on the humanitarian route in the Gaza Strip. (Credit: IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
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WATCH: IDF thwarts attempt by Gaza terrorists to loot aid truck

IDF troops identified a vehicle that pulled to the front of a line of aid trucks and an armed individual exiting the vehicle.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 Armed terrorists attempt to loot an aid truck in Gaza, September 21, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
Armed terrorists attempt to loot an aid truck in Gaza, September 21, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

The Tzabar Battalion of the IDF's Givati Brigade thwarted an attempt by terrorists in the Gaza Strip to loot an aid truck carrying humanitarian relief for Gaza's civilian population, the IDF reported on Friday.

After securing the humanitarian corridor in Rafah, IDF scans reportedly identified Hamas terrorists stealing the contents of a humanitarian aid truck. Ground forces subsequently directed drones to strike the vehicles carrying the looters.

IDF troops identified a vehicle that pulled to the front of a line of aid trucks and an armed individual exiting the car next to a gathering of people in front of the trucks.

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IDF strikes Hezbollah targets in Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
  (photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)
(photo credit: AMIR COHEN/REUTERS)

The IDF carried out a series of strikes in Lebanon on targets belonging to Hezbollah, the military announced Saturday afternoon.

Immediately following Israel's strikes, rocket sirens sounded in a number of northern Israeli communities, including Safed and Kiryat Shmona, among others.

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Hungarian intelligence agency interviewed CEO linked to exploding Hezbollah pagers

Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of BAC Consulting, told NBC News earlier this week that she did not make the pagers and said she was "just the intermediate."

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(Illustrative) A pager device and a crowd in Lebanon near a site where Hezbollah members' pager devices were attacked. (photo credit: REUTERS, SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT, SHUTTERSTOCK)
(Illustrative) A pager device and a crowd in Lebanon near a site where Hezbollah members' pager devices were attacked.
(photo credit: REUTERS, SCREENSHOT/X, SECTION 27A COPYRIGHT ACT, SHUTTERSTOCK)

Hungarian intelligence services have conducted several interviews with the CEO of BAC Consulting, a Budapest-based company linked to deadly explosions of pagers used by Hezbollah members this week, the Hungarian government said on Saturday.

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IDF eliminates Hamas terrorist Muhammad Mansour, other terrorists in Gaza

Muhammad Mansour was reportedly a key source of technological knowledge for the terror group's intelligence.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
IDF operational activity in the Gaza Strip on September 21, 2024. (IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

The IDF eliminated Hamas terrorist Muhammad Mansour, a key figure in Hamas's intelligence system, and a number of other terrorists in strikes on dozens of terror structures in central and southern Gaza, the military announced on Saturday morning.

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Aqil and Shukr eliminated: Which Hezbollah leaders remain in Israel's crosshairs? - analysis

If things continue to escalate in the North, there is a strong likelihood that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah would be a key target for a targeted Israel strike.

By AMIR BOHBOT
 MAY 13: A woman holds a photo of Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah pior the Hezbollah Political Party Rally to commemorate the anniversary of Badreddine death on May 13, 2022 in Baalbek in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. (photo credit: Francesca Volpi/Getty Images)
MAY 13: A woman holds a photo of Hassan Nasrallah, Secretary-General of Hezbollah pior the Hezbollah Political Party Rally to commemorate the anniversary of Badreddine death on May 13, 2022 in Baalbek in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon.
(photo credit: Francesca Volpi/Getty Images)

On Friday, Israel officially took direct responsibility for the assassination of Ibrahim Aqil in Beirut, signaling a potential change in strategy and indicating the possibility of further targeted eliminations. Following the eliminations of Aqil and Fuad Shukr at the end of July, the question arises as to who remains in Israel’s crosshairs among Hezbollah’s senior leaders.

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Reporter's Notebook: October 7 and the hopelessness that followed

The scale of the death and tragedy in Israel and in Gaza are impossible to continue to live with, but no end and no solution seem near.

By EVE YOUNG
The remains of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023 (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
The remains of the destruction caused by Hamas terrorists when they infiltrated Kibbutz Be'eri on October 7, 2023
(photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On October 7, I was with my family in Boston visiting my sister. Jetlag woke me up at 3 a.m. Boston time and, glancing at my phone, the push notifications of all the horrors happening in Israel - where the travesties of the Hamas attack were well underway, kept me awake.

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IDF eliminates Hamas terrorist Muhammad Mansour, other terrorists in Gaza

Muhammad Mansour was reportedly a key source of technological knowledge for the terror group's intelligence.

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
 IDF soldier operating in the Gaza Strip on September 21, 2024. (photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)
IDF soldier operating in the Gaza Strip on September 21, 2024.
(photo credit: IDF SPOKESPERSON'S UNIT)

The IDF eliminated Hamas terrorist Muhammad Mansour, a key figure in Hamas's intelligence system, and a number of other terrorists in strikes on dozens of terror structures in central and southern Gaza, the military announced on Saturday morning.

Mansour was reportedly a key source of technological knowledge for the terror group's intelligence.

The other terrorists eliminated had targeted IDF soldiers in previous attacks, the military added.

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Israel-Hamas War, Hezbollah conflict: All you need to know


  • Hamas launched a massive attack on October 7, with thousands of terrorists infiltrating from the Gaza border and taking some 240 hostages into Gaza
  • Over 1,200 Israelis and foreign nationals were murdered, including over 350 at the Re'im music festival and hundreds of Israeli civilians across Gaza border communities
  • 101 hostages remain in Gaza
  • 48 hostages in total have been killed in captivity, IDF says