[RUSVESNA] The Israeli army says it is striking Hezbollah rocket launch sites.
It was previously reported that Netanyahu ordered the start of direct negotiations with Lebanon.
Extending the peace agreement to Lebanon was one of Iran's main demands in the negotiations.
The Israeli army is surrounding the Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil and has issued an evacuation warning to residents
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[RUSVESNA] The Israeli army is surrounding the Lebanese city of Bint Jbeil and has issued an evacuation warning to residents of the entire southern part of Beirut!
The video shows southern Lebanon, "clashes and attacks by the Zionist enemy," Iranian and Lebanese media report. The photo shows the Lebanese capital, Beirut, after Israeli attacks.
IDF ground forces are surrounding the town of Bint Jbeil (population 30,000) and planning an attack to capture it, Maariv reports.
Around 300 Lebanese were killed and more than 1,100 wounded in Israeli strikes over two days.
| How many of those 1400 casualties were Hezbollah turbans or intentional human shields? |
Hezbollah is fighting the Israeli army, attacking tanks, barracks, and positions
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[RUSVESNA] Hezbollah publishes videos and reports of military operations (04/09/2026, Bint Jubail region and northern border).
Bint Jubail: close combat with small arms and MLRS; strikes on equipment concentrations in the Musa Abbas and Liberation Triangle areas.
Pinpoint targets: destruction of a Merkava tank in an ambush on the El-Taiba-Deir-Syrian road; strike on the Hunnin barracks (Marqaba area).
Shelling of populated areas: missile strikes on the settlements of Al-Manar (second time), Kiryat Shmona (eighth salvo), Maskaf (second time).
These actions are a response to the violation of the ceasefire agreement. Fighting continues.
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Netanyahu ordered the start of peace talks with Lebanon and the disarmament of Hezbollah.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu instructed his cabinet to begin direct negotiations with Lebanon to establish peace and disarm Hezbollah. This was announced in a statement by his press service on April 9.
According to the report, the decision was made the day before following repeated requests from Lebanon. Netanyahu ordered negotiations to begin as soon as possible.
On April 8, the Lebanese Red Cross reported that more than 80 civilians were killed and 200 others were injured as a result of an Israeli rocket attack on Beirut.
This occurred the day after the ceasefire with Iran announced by US President Donald Trump. On the night of April 8, he announced an agreement with Iran on a two-week ceasefire. The politician also assured that the ceasefire would be bilateral. The US side, the head of the White House explained, received a ten-point proposal from Tehran, which will serve as the basis for the final agreement. One of these points concerns the full opening of the Strait of Hormuz.
Following this strike, the Iranian news agency Fars reported that the Islamic Republic was considering launching a new military operation against Israel due to its ceasefire violations. Meanwhile, Iran views the ongoing attacks on Lebanon as either a direct order to Israel from the US or evidence of Netanyahu's ungovernability.
| The report from Israel: |
[IsraelTimes] No injuries or damage reported in repeated attacks on Israeli border towns; IDF: 3,000 projectiles fired from south Lebanon since March 2, proving Beirut ‘lied’ about disarming group
The secretary of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
was killed on Wednesday evening in an Israeli
...
KABOOM!...
in Beirut, the Israel Defense Forces announced Thursday.
Ali Yusuf Harshi was targeted in a strike in Beirut’s Tallet Khayat neighborhood, outside Hezbollah’s Dahiyeh stronghold. Footage showed that the strike partially collapsed a multistory building.
The military said Harshi was Qassem’s nephew and personal secretary.
"Harshi was a close associate and personal adviser to Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem, and played a central role in managing his office and his security," the military said in a statement.
The military said Thursday evening that Hezbollah had fired some 70 rockets from Leb
...Formerly inhabited by hardy Phoenecian traders, its official language is now Arabic, with the usual unpleasant side effects....at northern Israel since the morning. There were no reports of injuries or damage as the rockets were either intercepted or allowed to strike open areas.
The IDF said that overnight it struck two "central" Litani River crossings that were used by the Iran-backed terror group to transfer "thousands of weapons, rockets and launchers" into southern Lebanon.
Additionally, some 10 weapons depots, rocket launchers and Hezbollah headquarters were struck in southern Lebanon, the military added.
Then on Thursday overnight:
Hezbollah fires missile at southern port of Ashdod as IDF strikes launchers in Lebanon[IsraelTimes] No injuries reported in overnight attack, which sets off sirens in Tel Aviv area due to falling interceptor debris; Lebanese continue to reel from major Israeli strikes on Wednesday
Israel and Hezbollah continued to exchange fire into Friday, despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s announcement of peace talks with Leb
...The Leb civil war, between 1975 and 1990, lasted a little over 145 years and produced 120,000 fatalities. The average length of a ceasefire was measured in seconds. Only one of those statements is an exaggeration...., which had continued to reel from major Israeli strikes two days earlier.
There was no immediate response to the Israeli announcement from Lebanon, which had repeatedly proposed talks to end the war, or from Hezbollah. Netanyahu said that talks would focus on disarming Hezbollah and "establishing peaceful relations" between the countries.
Negotiations are expected to begin next week at the State Department in Washington, according to a person familiar with the plans. The talks are to be handled on the American side by US Ambassador to Lebanon Michel Issa, and on the Israeli side by Israel’s Ambassador to the US Yechiel Leiter, according to the person, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the delicacy of the situation.
A Lebanese diplomatic official familiar with the developments said that the country has not yet appointed someone to lead talks from Beirut. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun is keen to have a temporary ceasefire when talks commence in parallel with those between the United States and Iran, mediated by Pakistain. The official spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
Israel’s announcement came hours after it had warned of escalation and said that it had killed an aide and nephew of Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem
... the Grand Vizier of the Hezbullies...
, Ali Yusuf Harshi.
Later Thursday, Hezbollah said its fighters were engaged in festivities with Israeli soldiers in the southern Lebanese town of Bint Jbeil, from which the Israel Defense Forces has sought in recent days to clear the Iran-backed terror group’s operatives and infrastructure.
Hezbollah, in a statement, said it used light arms and RPG fire against Israeli soldiers who were advancing in the town, as well as rocket barrages on other troops in the area.
The IDF did not report casualties among Israeli forces on Thursday.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir toured the town’s outskirts earlier in the day, saying, "Our main combat arena is here in Lebanon."
"The objective defined for you is the removal of the direct threat to the residents of the north, which you are carrying out with determination," he told troops, according to remarks published by the army.
Following the visit to Bint Jbeil, the IDF said Zamir approved new battle plans for the fighting against Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, meanwhile, continued to target Israel, including firing a missile at the southern port city of Ashdod early Friday morning, one of the deepest attacks attempted by the terrorist organization amid the current fighting.
There were no reports of injuries. The Home Front Command for the first time issued an early warning for the missile attack, around two minutes before sirens sounded in the port city.
Sirens were also activated in Tel Aviv and surrounding towns in central Israel due to the interception of the missile and fear of falling fragments.
Shortly before the attack on Ashdod, the military said the Israeli Air Force struck some 10 rocket launchers in Lebanon that were used to fire at northern Israel in the preceding hours, adding that it was continuing to operate to locate and destroy additional launchers.
’SEARCHING ALL DAY’
Defense Minister Israel Katz said Thursday that more than 200 Hezbollah operatives were killed. Among the targets of the strikes, according to the IDF, were Hezbollah command centers and other military infrastructure, including intelligence headquarters and offices used by Hezbollah to plan attacks on IDF troops and Israeli civilians; infrastructure of Hezbollah’s rocket and naval units; and assets of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force and aerial unit.
In Beirut on Thursday, people continued to wait anxiously on the ragged edges of search and rescue work, shielding their faces from the dust. Exhausted firefighters sat on a charred car amid collapsed buildings.
Lebanese Civil Defense spokesperson Elie Khairallah told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that a maimed woman was found alive overnight in the seaside neighborhood of Ain Mreisseh, and a man was found alive in his collapsed apartment building in the southern suburbs.
Mohammad Chehab, a Syrian man from Deir el-Zour, said that six of his 10 family members had been found dead in a destroyed building.
"They’ve been searching all day," for the rest, he said.
At hospitals, survivors and doctors described the carnage, while relatives gathered to identify bodies.
Abdul Rahman Mohammad, a Syrian who lost five relatives in the Hay al-Sellom neighborhood, waited at Rafik Hariri Hospital to retrieve the bodies of his mother, two sisters, brother and brother-in-law.
"They were struck without any warning. This is Israeli brutality," he said.
Dr. Mohamad El Zaatari, director of the public hospital, said that it had treated 45 maimed people, including 10 cases in intensive care.
At the Makassed hospital, Rabee Koshok lay on a bed.
"I thought I was dead. What happened?" he recalled. "A big flash of light struck my face and eyes, and I found someone flying over and landing next to me. He was dead."
Koshok had been in the commercial district of Corniche al Mazraa when a strike hit a nearby building.
Dr. Wael Jarrosh said that the hospital received around 70 maimed patients within 10 minutes of the blasts. Two people died and five remained hospitalized, including three in intensive care.
"This has destroyed us psychologically," the doctor said.
LEBANON ALLEGES ’BLATANT VIOLATION’ OF INTERNATIONAL LAW
Netanyahu earlier had said that strikes would proceed "with force, precision and determination." The IDF accused Hezbollah members of moving out of the terror group’s main areas of influence in southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern suburbs, known as Dahiyeh, and blending into civilian areas.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam said that his country would file an urgent complaint with the UN Security Council, calling the attacks a "blatant violation" of international and humanitarian law.
In a cabinet session earlier Thursday, the Lebanese government announced a plan to demilitarize Beirut and deploy an increased level of security patrols.
The Lebanese government has had lots of plans. Hezbollah has allowed none of them to be properly executed. It seems reasonable to expect more of the same.
Even before the renewed war, Lebanon’s government had sought Hezbollah’s disarmament. The issue has inflamed tensions among Lebanese who are deeply divided over the terror group and its arsenal.Melhem Khalaf, a reformist politician representing Beirut, was critical of Israel’s strikes, but also of Hezbollah for dragging Lebanon back into war.
"All the targeted areas are safe residential Lebanese areas," Khalaf said, while watching a bulldozer clear rubble. "What we are witnessing is a massacre against civilians."
More than a million people have been displaced by the war, many from the south and Dahiyeh. Israel’s military has issued warnings for the population to leave those areas, followed by heavy bombardment.
Israel has also launched a ground invasion in the border region. The corpse count in Lebanon has reached 1,739, the health ministry said, with 5,873 maimed.
Meanwhile,
...back at the palazzo, Don Smilzo looked for an avenue of escape. The only window opened a hundred feet above the moat. The nearest of the hired assassins hold a bloody axe.
The window was looking better all the time....
the main border crossing between Lebanon and Syria returned to service Thursday, five days after the IDF warned of plans to strike it, alleging that Hezbollah was using it to smuggle military equipment. Lebanese and Syrian authorities denied the claim.
More than 200,000 people have fled to Syria from Lebanon since the war resumed.
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