The Breaking News on Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.Report by CNN News

The Breaking News on Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Report by CNN News

The latest News Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Reported by CNN News

The Breaking News on Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Report by CNN News

What we’re covering
Cross-border strikes escalate: Israel and Hezbollah been trading their most intense fire since the October 7 attacks. The region was already on edge after wireless devices owned by Hezbollah members exploded and Israel killed a top commander in a strike on southern Beirut.
Hezbollah targets northern Israel: The group fired scores of rockets and missiles overnight into Israel, striking deeper than they have done in recent attacks. Most were intercepted but some fell, causing damage.
Wave of Israeli strikes: At least two people were killed on Sunday in fresh Israeli strikes, Lebanese media reported. On Saturday Israel carried out nearly 300 strikes in what the military said was preemptive action against a planned Hezbollah attack.
IDF raids Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera has broadcast live footage of Israeli soldiers raiding its offices in Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and ordering its closure for 45 days.

Hezbollah attacks hit deeper into Israel than most previous attacks
From CNN’s Tamara Qiblawi
Hezbollah retaliated overnight to a week of intensive Israeli attacks in Lebanon by launching a barrage of projectiles that targeted areas farther into Israeli territory than most of its previous strikes.

The Israeli military said that it intercepted most of the airborne weapons but reported impacts in Kiryat Bialik, Tsur Shalom and Moreshet near the port city of Haifa, around 40 km (25 miles) south of the border. This marks one of the deepest direct hits by the Iran-backed group since the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war.

Hezbollah said it targeted the Ramat David airbase southeast of Haifa with Fadi-1 and Fadi-2 missiles, two previously unknown weapons that may have a longer range than those normally used by the Lebanese militant group. Hezbollah attacks have largely involved short-range Katyusha and Burkan rockets as well as attack and surveillance drones.

The Israeli military did not respond to queries about whether the Ramat David airbase was impacted. Israeli emergency services reported three people were wounded in the attacks.

Hezbollah boasts an arsenal of short, medium and long-range missiles. In his previous speeches, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said that the group had yet to use some of its most sophisticated weaponry.

Israel struck Hezbollah with “a series of blows it didn’t imagine,” Netanyahu says
From CNN’s Tamar Michaelis
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that in the past few days “We have struck Hezbollah with a series of blows it didn’t imagine.”

“If Hezbollah didn’t get the message – I assure you – they will get the message. We are determined to return our citizens in the north to their homes safely,” said the prime minister, speaking ahead of a government meeting on Sunday.

“No country can tolerate incoming fire against its citizens, incoming fire against its cities. And we too, the state of Israel, won’t tolerate it. We will do anything necessary to restore the security,” he said.

Speaking from an air force command and control room, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said that “Hezbollah has started to sense some of the IDF’s capabilities, and there’s already a difficult feeling there that we’re after them, and we’re seeing the results.”

Some context: Israel carried out some of its most intense strikes on Lebanon against Hezbollah since the October 7 attacks, striking thousands of launchers on Saturday after it said it uncovered plans for a Hezbollah rocket attack. On Friday, at least 45 people were killed, including high-level Hezbollah commanders, in an Israeli strike on southern Beirut.

These strikes followed the detonation of walkie-talkies in Lebanon earlier this week, which killed at least 20 people and pager blasts targeting Hezbollah members which killed at least 12, including children, and injured thousands across the country.

Israeli President Herzog says Israel “not interested” in war with Lebanon, blames Hezbollah for military escalation
From CNN’s Duarte Mendonça
Israeli President Isaac Herzog said on Sunday that “Israel is not interested to be at war with Lebanon” while accusing Hezbollah of being behind the military escalation between both nations.

“We do not want to move to get into a war with Lebanon, but Lebanon has been hijacked by a terror organization which is also a political party in Lebanon called Hezbollah,” he told Sky News’ Trevor Phillips.

Herzog said Hezbollah had been “armed to its teeth by the Iranian empire of evil,” and that the leaders killed in the Friday attack on southern Beirut were “meeting together in order to launch the same horrific, horrendous attack that we had on October 7 by Hamas.”

The president reiterated Israel “did not seek this war”, which “was instigated by the Empire of Evil, the Iranian proxies in the region, under the command of Iran,” and that his country is only focusing on defending itself.

“Think for a moment, had the Bournemouth citizens been evacuated to Manchester for a year under attacks from one of the neighbors or Brighton, how long would the British government be restrained?” Herzog asked, referring to cities in northern and southern England.

“We are working to change this equation,” he said, adding that Israel needed to ensure the return of hostages and secure itself from an attack from Lebanon. “It’s very simple, and life can go on in a peaceful manner on an internationally recognized boundary between Israel and Lebanon,” he concluded.

At least 7 killed in Israeli strike on another Gaza school compound
From CNN’s Abeer Salman and Tim Lister
Reports from Gaza say that seven people were killed Sunday morning in an Israeli airstrike on another school compound, after 22 were killed in a similar strike on a school where thousands were sheltering in central Gaza on Saturday.

The Israeli military says the compound was being used as a Hamas base.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that following intelligence leads, the air force “conducted a precise strike on Hamas terrorists in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorists were operating from within a compound that previously served as the ‘Kafr Qasem’ School.”

Prior to the strike, the IDF said, “numerous steps were taken to mitigate the risk of harm to uninvolved civilians.”

The Breaking News on Israel’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon. Report by CNN News

A CNN stringer in Gaza reports that in addition to the seven killed in the strike, others were badly injured. The Kafr Qasem school houses hundreds of displaced people in a camp west of Gaza City. Casualties were transferred to Al Ahli Hospital in the city.

Among those killed was a senior manager in the Ministry of Public Works and Housing in Gaza, Majed Saleh.

The Israeli military has struck a number of school compounds sheltering the displaced in recent weeks. On Saturday, 22 people – most of them women and children – were reported killed in an Israeli strike on a school compound in Zeitoun, in central Gaza.

The Israeli military said the compound was being used as a Hamas command center, and precautions had been taken to avoid civilian casualties. CNN is unable to verify whether Hamas operatives were present at the compound or whether Hamas fighters were among the casualties.

Khader Al-Za’anoun of WAFA, the official Palestinian news agency, contributed to this post.