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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu indicated on Tuesday evening that Israel had successfully assassinated Hashem Safieddine, the anticipated new leader of Hezbollah, who was targeted in an airstrike in Beirut last Thursday. He also claimed that Israel had eliminated the next in line for the position.

At least six people have been wounded, two of them critically, after a stabbing shook the Israeli city of Hadera, but the attacker was shot by armed civilians, witnesses said.

At least two people were reportedly killed and eight injured as Lebanon-based Hezbollah fired some 90 rockets into northern Israel, just hours after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged the Lebanese people to take back their country.

Israel’s embattled prime minister pledged Monday on the October 7 massacre’s anniversary that “together with God’s grace,” the grieving Jewish nation will triumph over evil.

A Torah dedication ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem marked the first anniversary of the October 7 attack by Hamas fighters in Israel honoring victims and fallen soldiers.

Israel’s military expanded its offensive against Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday with troops moving into a new zone in southwest Lebanon, despite new warnings from Iran.

Sirens wailed across Tel Aviv and elsewhere in central Israel late Monday as Hezbollah fired at least five rockets from Lebanon toward the Jewish nation, shortly after Israel announced it hit Hezbollah’s intelligence center in Beirut.

As Israeli families grieved their loved ones on the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre, “they were forced to run for their lives in order to seek shelter from rockets” fired from Yemen, Lebanon, and Gaza, Israel’s military said Monday.

Warning Iran’s Islamic jihadist regime that it made “a big mistake” when, days before the first anniversary of the October 7 massacre by Hamas, it launched some 200 ballistic missiles at Israel last week, the Israeli government has announced it is preparing “serious and significant” response to the Iranian assault.

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fighting Hamas in Gaza were last week able to rescue a Yazidi woman who was abducted by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorists in Iraq in 2014 and sold to a Palestinian who forced her to marry him, Ynet News reports.

At least 24 people were killed and 96 injured in massive Israeli air strikes on Gaza and Lebanon overnight, Hamas-linked officials said early Sunday.

As Israel prepared to remember the greatest tragedy against Jews since the Holocaust, or Shoah, thousands demonstrated against the Jewish nation in pro-Palestinian rallies worldwide.

Israel’s army agreed Saturday on efforts to attack Iran after killing key leaders of Iran’s proxies Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Worthy News learned.

Israel tried to eliminate late Hezbollah secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah’s successor, Hashem Safieddine, in the Dahieh suburb of Beirut, Lebanon, Israeli sources said early Friday.

The Jewish Agency announced in its annual report on Wednesday, the eve of Rosh Hashanah 2024, that the world’s Jewish population is now 15.8 million, the Times of Israel (TOI) reports.