🚨 Red Alert of rocket fire from Lebanon towards Israel.

(Update: yet another false alarm)

Yet another false alarm in the north, with no rockets fired from Lebanon, making it the 3rd for today.

The IDF fired several illumination flares.

Additional flares being fired near Kiryat Shmona facing Lebanon.

The Lebanese government sent a message to the UN about Israel's violation of Lebanese sovereignty, and stressed that the decision of war and peace isn't in its hands but in the hands of the Islamic Resistance - Hezbullah. (Al-Jadeed news)

🚨 ‘Cleared for publication’: IDF acknowledges one soldier was killed in the Hezbollah anti-tank guided missile attack on the Lebanon border yesterday. Staff Sgt. (res.) Matanya Elster, 22, from the Carmeli Brigade.

Another soldier is said to be in critical condition.

Jordan is worried that the Israeli army is planning to cause a mass immigration crisis in Gaza towards the deserts of Egypt in Sinai.

🚨 The Palestinian Ministry of Health announces 1,537 martyrs and 6,612 wounded in Gaza. 32 martyrs and 190 wounded in the West Bank.

“The security establishment is preparing for a ground entry into the Gaza Strip and is waiting for the approval of the political level. If the approval is given, the forces are prepared for a stay of months.”

Current objective presented is “the disarmament of the Gaza Strip”.

- Israeli journalist Hallel Biton.

Iranian foreign minister lands in Beirut, is welcomed by representatives of Hamas and PIJ alongside a parliamentary delegation from Hezbullah and Amal.

The Israeli army demolished a pizza shop in the West Bank's Huwara Palestinian village over its owner's Facebook ad that mocked an elderly Israeli hostage.

Latest Israeli airstrikes in Al Buraij camp claims more than a dozen civilian casualties.

With many internal displacement and families gathering in few houses, the death toll from the Israeli airstrikes is claiming more lives.

Today: A Palestinian man holds the body of a child who was killed in Israeli strikes, in Gaza City, October 12, 2023. REUTERS/Mohammed Salem

🚨 Massive bombardment is ongoing now in Northern Gaza, heard all the way to central Israel.

The Israeli army is using bunker buster bombs.

From the airstrikes on Gaza tonight.

Israeli gunboats are participating in the attacks.

The Washington Post reports that a 'top secret' US intelligence document from February deemed a wider conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to be 'unlikely' as they had settled into a posture of 'mutual deterrence'

Distressing. Palestinian Babies bleeding after Israeli bombing.

Comment: “Is this baby going to be on the front page of every mainstream news paper? No.”

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Israeli intelligence the night before the Hamas attack picked up signs of irregular activity among Hamas operatives in Gaza but top IDF and Shin Bet leaders decided not to put military forces on the borders of the enclave on high alert.

"As a result, several high-level consultations took place on Friday night to try and understand what the new intelligence meant, the officials said."

"But after the consultations, the leaders decided to wait for more intelligence to come in. Several hours later, Hamas attacked." (Report by Barak Ravid).

Intense Israeli airstrike resumed in Gaza.

Hospitals have counted more than 120 dead bodies that arrived in just a few hours.

Additional airstrikes take place near Al-Buraij camp that witnessed a massacre earlier today.

Reports also allege ongoing armed clashes near the camp and nearby settlement areas!