Monday, October 16, 2023

Updates, Headlines From Israel

Major rocket barrage toward Jerusalem stops Knesset session, sending MKs to shelters

The Times of Israel is liveblogging Monday’s events



Hezbollah claims responsibility for attacks on IDF posts near Lebanon border

The Hezbollah terror group claims responsibility for attacking a number of Israeli military posts along the Lebanon border with light arms.

The Israel Defense Forces said earlier that no soldiers were hurt, and it was responding with artillery fire.

Knesset opening session resumes after 40-minute break forced by rockets

The Knesset has reopened its parliamentary session after taking a 40-minute break sparked by a rocket salvo at Jerusalem that sent attendees to bomb shelters.

Lapid says Israel will conduct war on Hamas regardless of international criticism

Before the rocket barrage that sent the Knesset plenum to shelters, Opposition Leader Yair Lapid says that Israel will forge ahead in its campaign against Hamas, even if it is subject to international criticism.

“It will take time, it will require the use of a lot of force. If the world doesn’t like it, let it not. It was not the children of the world who were murdered, our children were murdered,” Lapid tells the Knesset as the winter session opens.

The opposition leader, who says he will support Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s wartime cabinet from the sidelines, pledges that Israel will “uproot Hamas” because “it’s impossible to live next to a terror group.”

More rockets fired toward Tel Aviv as Hamas claims earlier barrage

IDF responds with artillery strikes toward Lebanon after troops come under fire

There have been escalating skirmishes as the Hezbollah terror group and allied Palestinian factions have launched several attacks on the Lebanon border in recent days.

Energy Minister Israel Katz reposts UNRWA’s accusation that Hamas authorities have stolen fuel and medical supplies from its Gaza City premises that were meant for Palestinian refugees, arguing that this is a reason not to allow any humanitarian aid into the Strip until the terror group is eliminated.

UN refugee agency accuses Hamas of stealing fuel, medications from its Gaza premises

UNRWA, the UN organization that treats Palestinian refugees and their descendants, says Hamas authorities in Gaza have apparently stolen fuel and medical supplies meant for refugees from its premises in Gaza City.

The agency says on X that the people claiming they were from the Hamas-run health ministry loaded the supplies on trucks, adding than any non-humanitarian use of the fuel is “strongly condemned.”

The agency deletes the posts shortly thereafter, without explanation.







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