Israel Army Says Struck Hezbollah Weapons Depots in South Lebanon

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Jarmak on September 28, 2025. (AFP)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Jarmak on September 28, 2025. (AFP)
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Israel Army Says Struck Hezbollah Weapons Depots in South Lebanon

Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Jarmak on September 28, 2025. (AFP)
Smoke rises following an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese village of Jarmak on September 28, 2025. (AFP)

The Israeli military said it struck weapons depots belonging to the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Sunday.

"A short while ago, the Israeli military struck Hezbollah weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon. These weapon depots were used by the terrorist organization to advance and carry out terror attacks against the State of Israel," the military said in a statement.

Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported "a series" of Israeli air strikes near the towns of Kfar Rumman and Jarmak, and a drone strike on a home in Humin, all in the country's south.

Despite a November ceasefire that ended over a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, the latter has kept up regular strikes on Lebanon and still has troops positioned at five border points inside Lebanon.

Hezbollah, meanwhile, is under intense pressure to hand over its weapons, with the Lebanese army having drawn up a plan to disarm it, beginning in the south.

Lebanon itself is facing pressure to act from the United States, as well as from the ongoing Israeli strikes.

But on Saturday, Hezbollah chief Sheikh Naim Qassem said the Iran-backed party would not allow itself to be disarmed as he addressed supporters while marking one year since Israel's killing of his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah.

Hezbollah was the only major armed group allowed to keep its weapons following Lebanon's civil war, because it was fighting continued Israeli occupation of the south.

The group's strongholds are in mainly Shiite southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as the southern suburb of Beirut.

In October 2023, it began launching rockets at Israel in support of Hamas in Gaza. Months of exchanges escalated into all-out war in September 2024, before a ceasefire was agreed two months later.



Israeli Military Kills 15-year-old Palestinian in West Bank

File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
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Israeli Military Kills 15-year-old Palestinian in West Bank

File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa
File: Palestinian Territories, Nablus: A view of a damaged vehicle following an attack by Jewish settlers, who also wrote Hebrew slogans on the walls of houses in the village of Deir al-Hatab, east of Nablus in the West Bank. Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images via ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

The Israeli military killed a 15-year-old Palestinian boy near Bethlehem late on Friday, according to the Palestinian health ministry, as violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank surges.

The Palestinian health ministry said in a statement that the 15-year-old boy had died after arriving at the hospital in a critical condition with a gunshot wound to the abdomen, according to Reuters.

The boy had been shot in the Dheisheh camp during an Israeli military raid, the Palestinian WAFA state news agency reported.

The Israeli military said a Palestinian was killed after soldiers opened fire during what it described as a "violent riot" in which stones were thrown at soldiers near Bethlehem. The statement did not identify the Palestinian killed or specify why Israeli forces were in the area.

It was the third reported Palestinian killed in the West Bank by Israeli forces on Friday. The WAFA earlier on Friday reported that two Palestinian men had been shot dead by Israeli forces.

The West Bank has seen a surge in violence since October 2023 when Hamas carried out its deadly attack on Israel from Gaza.

Since then, the military has tightened restrictions on Palestinian movement in the West Bank, and launched raids that have displaced entire communities, while violence perpetrated by Israeli settlers against Palestinians has increased.


Baghdad Orders Probe after Drone Targets Kurdistan President’s Home

File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
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Baghdad Orders Probe after Drone Targets Kurdistan President’s Home

File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP
File Photo: President of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan Region Nechirvan Barzani - AFP

A drone attack targeted the home of the president of Iraq's Kurdistan Region early on Saturday, security sources said, in an incident that comes as tensions continue to rise across northern Iraq.

Air defences also shot down a drone near a Peshmerga fighters’ base in Duhok, the sources added.

The strikes come amid a surge in attacks on both Iran-aligned militias and Kurdish forces as the US-Israeli war against Iran spills over into Iraq, drawing in multiple armed groups and straining Baghdad’s efforts to contain the fallout.

Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani condemned the attack on Kurdish President Nechirvan Barzani’s home and spoke with him by phone, his office said.

Sudani ordered the creation of a joint federal-Kurdistan security and technical team to investigate the incidents and identify those responsible, the statement added.

Iraq's military accused the US and Israel of carrying out some of the airstrikes on the PMF.

Tehran-backed armed groups have also launched attacks on US bases in Iraq and the US embassy.


Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Journalists

Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
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Israeli Strike Kills Three Lebanese Journalists

Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)
Journalists Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni (National News Agency)

An Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon has killed three Lebanese journalists, Reuters reported.

Al Manar reporter Ali Shaib and reporter Fatima Ftouni, from broadcaster Al Mayadeen, were killed when their vehicle was hit. Ftouni's brother, cameraman Mohammed Ftouni, had also been killed in the strike.

The Israeli military said in a statement it had "eliminated" Shaib, whom it described as a "terrorist" in a Hezbollah intelligence unit who had reported on the locations of Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon. It accused him of "incitement" against Israeli soldiers and civilians.

The military's statement made no mention of any other deaths and provided no evidence to support the assertion that Shaib was a member of Hezbollah.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun described them in a statement on X as "civilians doing their professional duty."

"It is a brazen crime that violates all treaties and norms through which journalists enjoy international protection in war," he said.

For his part, Prime Minister Nawaf Salam also stressed that “targeting journalists constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and a clear breach of the rules that guarantee the protection of journalists in times of war.”

He said: “Lebanon, which holds press freedom and its role in high regard, affirms its commitment to protecting journalists and calls for respect for international law, the safeguarding of civilian lives, and an end to Israeli attacks targeting them.”

Also, Information Minister Paul Morcos said that “the targeting of journalists is repeated and deliberate,” and that what occurred “constitutes a documented war crime against the media and the journalistic mission.”

He added that the incident “adds to a growing record of attacks targeting media outlets and journalists,” noting that Lebanon has submitted to the UN Special Coordinator for Lebanon, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert, a detailed list of assaults against journalists as well as health and medical personnel.