#Israel unearths #Hezbollah's web of tunnels in southern Lebanon. Israeli forces have spent much of the past year destroying Hamas’ vast underground network in Gaza. They are now focused on dismantling tunnels and other hideouts belonging to Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.

Scarred by Hamas’ deadly raid into Israel last year that sparked the war in #Gaza, Israel says it aims to prevent a similar incursion across its northern border from ever getting off the ground.

The Israeli military has combed through the dense brush of southern Lebanon for the past two weeks, uncovering what it says are Hezbollah’s deep attack capabilities — highlighted by a tunnel system equipped with weapons caches and rocket launchers that Israel says pose a direct threat to nearby communities.

Israel’s war against the Iran-backed militant group stretches far inside Lebanon, and its airstrikes in recent weeks have killed more than 1,700 people, about a quarter of whom were women and children, according to local health authorities. But its ground campaign has centered on a narrow patch of land just along the border, where Hezbollah has had a longstanding presence.
Hezbollah has deep ties to southern Lebanon

#Hezbollah, which has called for Israel’s destruction, is the Arab world’s most significant paramilitary force. It began firing rockets into Israel a day after Hamas' attack. After nearly a year of tit-for-tat fighting with Hezbollah, Israel launched its ground invasion into southern Lebanon on Oct. 1 and has since sent thousands of troops into the rugged terrain.

Even as it continues to bolster its forces, Israel says its invasion consists of “limited, localized and targeted ground raids” that are meant to destroy Hezbollah infrastructure so that tens of thousands of displaced Israelis can return home. The fighting also has uprooted more than one million Lebanese in the past month.

Leaked documents show U.S. #intelligence on Israel's plans to attack Iran: CNN sources. The U.S is investigating a leak of highly classified U.S. intelligence about Israel’s plans for retaliation against Iran, according to three people familiar with the matter. One of the people familiar confirmed the documents’ authenticity.

The leak is “deeply concerning,” a U.S. official told CNN.The documents, dated Oct, 15 and 16, began circulating online Friday after being posted on Telegram by an account called “Middle East Spectator.”

They are marked top secret and have markings indicating they are meant to be seen only by the U.S. and its “Five Eyes” allies — Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.

They describe preparations Israel appears to be making for a strike against Iran. One of the documents, which says it was compiled by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, says the plans involve Israel moving munitions around.

Another document says it is sourced to the National Security Agency and outlines Israeli air force exercises involving air-to-surface missiles, also believed to be in preparation for a strike on Iran. CNN is not quoting directly from or showing the documents.

A U.S. official said the investigation is examining who had access to the alleged Pentagon document. Any such leak would automatically trigger an investigation by the #FBI alongside the Pentagon and U.S. intelligence agencies. The FBI declined to comment.

The leak comes at an extremely sensitive moment in U.S.-Israeli relations and is bound to anger the Israelis, who have been preparing to strike Iran in response to Iran’s missile barrage on Oct. 1.

“If it is true that Israeli tactical plans to respond to Iran’s attack on Oct. 1 have been leaked, it is a serious breach,” said Mick Mulroy, former deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East and a retired CIA officer.

Mulroy added that “the future coordination between the U.S. and Israel could be challenged as well. Trust is a key component in the relationship, and depending on how this was leaked that trust could be eroded.”

The National Security Council referred CNN to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Pentagon for comment. The Pentagon and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency declined to comment. CNN has reached out to the National Security Agency for comment.

#SEOUL, October 4. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said he would not hesitate to use all offensive capabilities at his disposal if his country comes under attack, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

According to the report, Kim Jong Un mentioned the possibility of using nuclear weapons if other countries attempt to infringe upon his North Korea’s sovereignty.

"If the enemy, seized with extreme foolishness and recklessness, attempt to use armed forces encroaching upon the sovereignty of the #DPRK, full of excessive ‘confidence’ in the #ROK-US alliance in disregard of our repeated warnings, the #DPRK would use without hesitation all the offensive forces it has possessed, including nuclear weapons," the agency quoted the North Korean leader as saying.

He also described South Korean leader Yoon Suk Yeol as a "puppet" and said that his country’s southern neighbor has developed "the delusion of persecution" by North Korea.

In his words, the threatening rhetoric by hostile countries will not stop North Korea’s military #buildup

TEL AVIV, October 1. #Iran has launched a missile attack on Israel, firing nearly 500 missiles, The Jerusalem Post reported.

Previously, the newspaper said that at least 400 missiles had been fired at #Israel.

Earlier, the Israeli army said that Iran had launched a missile attack on the country. An air-raid warning has been sounded throughout the country. Israeli civilians have been ordered to urgently take refuge in shelters

TEL AVIV, September 29. #Israel’s air force has concluded a massive wave of strikes on the facilities of the Lebanon-based Shiite party #Hezbollah, the army press service said.

According to its statement, approximately 120 #Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and deep inside Lebanese territory were attacked.

#Houthis claim missile strike at Tel Aviv Airport during Netanyahu’s return.

According to the spokesman, the strike was carried out via a ballistic missile in response to Israel’s action in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

#DOHA, September 28. The Yemeni Houthi rebels carried out a missile strike at Tel Aviv’s Ben Gurion Airport at the moment of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s return, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea claimed.

"The missile forces […] carried out an operation to hit the Jaffa Airport, called Ben Gurion in Israel, during the arrival of criminal Benjamin Netanyahu," Sarea said on the Al Masirah TV channel.

According to the spokesman, the strike was carried out via a ballistic missile in response to Israel’s action in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon.

On Saturday, the Kan radio reported that Netanyahu cut his visit to the United States short after the IDF hit the Hezbollah headquarters in Beirut on Friday, and returned to Israel. The IDF press office said that the missile, launched from Yemen, was intercepted by air defense systems outside of Israeli territory.

#Iran Revolutionary Guard general died in Israeli strike that killed Hezbollah leader, reports say.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -A prominent general in Iran's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard died in an Israeli airstrike that killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, Iranian media reported Saturday.

The killing of Gen. Abbas Nilforushan marks the latest casualty suffered by #Iran as the nearly yearlong Israel-Hamas war in the #Gaza Strip teeters on the edge of becoming a regional conflict. His death further ratchets up pressure on Iran to respond, even as #Tehran has signaled in recent months that it wants to negotiate with the West over sanctions crushing its economy.

“The Zionist regime has many ethnic, cultural, social and military rifts. It is in vulnerable and in doom status more than before,” Nilforushan said in 2022, according to an IRNA report.

The U.S. Treasury sanctioned Nilforushan in 2022 and said he had led an organization “directly in charge of protest suppression.” Those sanctions came amid the monthslong protests in Iran over the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly not wearing her headscarf, or hijab, to the liking of police. At the time, Nilforushan accused Iran's enemies abroad of stoking the demonstrations led by Iranian women that challenged both the mandatory hijab and the country's theocracy.

Nilforushan also served in Syria, backing President Bashar Assad in his country’s decades-long war that grew out of the 2011 Arab Spring. Like many of his colleagues, he began his military career in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s.

#BEIRUT, September 27. #Sheikh #Hassan #Nasrallah, secretary general of the #Hezbollah #Shia movement, was not hurt in Israel’s attack on the group’s underground headquarters in Beirut, Al Hadath TV reports, citing sources.

Hezbollah sources confirmed that "Sheikh Nasrallah is safe and sound." The broadcaster added that the movement’s leadership would make a statement on Israel’s act of aggression against Lebanon in the coming hours.

Iran’s Tasnim news agency, in turn, confirmed that the Hezbollah leader was alive "and in a safe place."

Al Hadath said, citing Israeli sources, that the attack on the Hezbollah headquarters involved powerful aerial bombs designed to hit bunkers. At least six buildings collapsed at the site of the strike. According to preliminary reports, the attack caused numerous casualties.

The airstrike came during a #Hezbollah leadership meeting where Sheikh Nasrallah could have been present.