A Lebanon bank bank that allegedly houses a Hezbollah branch in the Dahiyeh suburb of Lebanon is still under attack

The Beirut suburb where Safieddine was killed was pummeled by a series of fresh airstrikes on Tuesday. The Dahiyeh suburb of Lebanon was leveled by the Israeli military because they claimed it housed Hezbollah facilities.

Late Sunday an Israeli military spokesperson published messages online in Arabic instructing Lebanese civilians to move away from specific buildings that house branches of the bank, called Al-Qard Al-Hassan.

While United Nations representatives said the warnings sparked panic in parts of the Lebanese capital, Beirut, Israel’s foreign minister said 15 buildings were struck and its military would continue to attack Hezbollah.

An official acknowledged that Al- Qard Al-Hassan has been used to pay Hezbollah fighters and purchase weapons but it has also served hundreds of thousands of other people, mostly from the country’s Shia Muslim communities. An official said that the intention was to create distrust between Hezbollah and ordinary Shia banking customers.

Maha Yahya, director of the Carnegie Middle East Center, wrote on social media that Al-Qard Al-Hassan was a “microfinance institution” modeled after the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. She said that a Lebanon institution gives small loans to low-income individuals against specific assets, in a country where the banking system has repeatedly collapsed.

Israel’s prime minister attacked by a drone: Emergency medical services and the media in Caesarea and the city of the prime minister’s residence

The Israeli military had announced the previous night that a few patients had been evacuated. The rest had left earlier because of the airstrikes.

Israel’s Minister of Intelligence, Intelligence Absorption, and Intelligence Strategy, Intelligencer Hayek said that Israeli forces would keep striking the Iranian proxy until it collapses.

Precise details of fatalities and injuries tied to the strikes overnight into Monday have not yet been confirmed. A report from the National News Agency in Lebanon claimed that the strikes on one of the financial branches caused damage to other floors in the same building. The strike on one branch caused significant damage to surrounding homes and to a nearby radio station, according to the agency.

The Health Ministry in Lebanon reported that 63 people had been killed over the past 24 hours.

A drone that the Iranian state news agency says Hezbollah sent from Lebanon had targeted the family residence of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the northern city of Caesarea, according to the prime minister’s office. Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, described it in a social media post as an “attempt to kill the prime minister of Israel,” and “an attack on all of us — on the people of Israel.”

The US tried to broker a cease-fire between Israel and Hezbollah, but that effort fell apart last month due to the Israeli strikes on the group.

Israel said Safieddine was killed by an airstrike in early October in a southern suburb of Beirut. The Israeli Ministry of Defence said that 25 other Hezbollah leaders were killed during the strike.

Smoke and debris flew into the air a few hundred yards from where a militant group had just given journalists information about the Israeli prime minister’s house being damaged in a drone attack.

Tony Blinken in Gaza: the need for a cease-fire and the release of hostages after the Gaza-Israel-Hamas war

The Secretary of State met with Netanyahu on Tuesday as part of his 11th visit to the region after the Israel-Hamas war. After Israel killed a Hamas leader last week, Tony Blinken is trying to get a cease-fire in Gaza. Israel and Hamas seem to be digging in.

After Hezbollah launched a volley of rockets into centralIsrael, the air raid sirens went off in populated areas and at the airport, but caused no apparent injuries or damage.

Reporters visited the Rafik Hariri University Hospital. They saw broken windows in the hospital’s pharmacy and dialysis center, which was full of patients at the time.

Israel alleged that Hezbollah had stashed hundreds of millions of dollars in cash and gold without providing evidence in its basement, which staff at another hospital feared would be targeted.

The director of the hospital denied the allegations and invited the journalists to visit on Tuesday. AP reporters saw no sign of militants or anything out of the ordinary.

The importance of ending the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah was emphasized by Blinken, according to Miller.

The State Department said ahead of Blinken’s visit that he would focus on ending the war in Gaza, securing the release of hostages held by Hamas and alleviating the suffering of Palestinian civilians.

The United States, Egypt and Qatar have brokered months of talks between Israel and Hamas, trying to strike a deal in which the militants would release dozens of hostages in return for an end to the war, a lasting cease-fire and the release of Palestinian prisoners.

The talks between Hamas and Israel ceased in August after both sides accused each other of making new demands. Hamas said its demands have not changed since the killing of Sinwar.

Israel’s retaliatory offensive has killed more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza and wounded tens of thousands, according to local health authorities, who don’t say how many were combatants but say more than half were women and children. More than 90 percent of the population of 2.3 million have been displaced because of it.

Around 1,200 people were killed and another 250 taken captive in Israel by Hamas-led militants on October 7, 2023. Three out of 100 captives still held in Gaza are thought to be dead.