Suspected hack at Haifa’s port databaseThe Israeli Broadcasting Authority is reporting that port workers in the northern Israeli city of Haifa have received messages that the port’s computer systems have been hacked and that it will be subjected to a missile attack.
Port officials estimated that workers’ phones were located in an external database that was hacked a few years ago.
“We know you work at the port. It will be one of our targets” was the message that was reported to have been sent.
Haifa has been the target of several attacks by Hezbollah in recent weeks, with some rockets evading air defences.
Israeli strikes target three locations in BeirutAs we’ve reported, Israeli air strikes have targeted southern Beirut yet again.
According to reports, the strikes hit Dahiyeh in three locations: Ozai, Jinah and Haret Hreik.
Vicinity of hospital in southern Beirut targetedThe vicinity of Rafik Hariri Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs has been bombed by Israeli forces, Lebanon’s National News Agency is reporting.
Casualties are feared in the attack.
We will bring you more on this as soon as we can.
Israeli allegations about Hezbollah bunker under hospital create panic in LebanonNour OdehReporting from AmmanAl Jazeera is reporting from Jordan because it has been banned from Israel and the occupied West Bank
There were incredible allegations made by the spokesperson of the Israeli army earlier. He said that according to their intelligence, there is a bunker underneath Al Sahel Hospital in Haret Hreik, Beirut’s southern district.
According to that allegation and that illustrative video that he shared with the press, up to a half billion dollars in cash and gold is stored there.
But of course there is absolutely nothing to corroborate this, and our viewers would remember that the same spokesperson made very similar allegations about a tunnel underneath al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza. That allegation did not pan out either, but it did result in the destruction of the hospital.
Now the spokesperson did not say that Israel would bomb it, but he did create a lot of panic in Lebanon. He said that Israel calls on the Lebanese army and Lebanese institutions to reclaim that money, and in that sense, he spoke to something that Netanyahu had earlier said about the Lebanese needing to liberate Lebanon from Hezbollah, fomenting that precarious civil peace in Lebanon.
Lebanon hospital denies Israeli claims of Hezbollah cash bunkerLebanon’s Sahel General Hospital in Beirut’s southern suburbs is being evacuated after Israel claimed that Hezbollah has a bunker filled with cash under it, the hospital director says.
Fadi Alameh rejected Israeli claims made earlier that Hezbollah is storing half a billion dollars under the hospital, and called on the Lebanese army to visit and inspect these allegations in order to quash them.
Hezbollah says targeted Israeli army intelligence base near Tel AvivThere were reports of an explosion earlier today near Tel Aviv.
Hezbollah has just released a statement saying it launched rockets at an Israeli army intelligence base in the city’s suburbs.
Hezbollah fighters launched “quality rockets” at “the Glilot base of the Military Intelligence Unit 8200 in the Tel Aviv suburbs”, the group said, adding the attack was “in defence of Lebanon” and “in response to Israeli aggressions” and dedicated to their slain leader Hassan Nasrallah.
Two civilians killed in missile attack on car in Damascus: Syrian state mediaWe have some more information about the attack on a car in Syria’s capital, Damascus, that we reported earlier.
Syrian state news agency SANA has quoted a military source as saying the apparent guided missile attack, which was blamed on Israel, had killed two civilians.
“At approximately 5:17pm [14:17 GMT] today, the Israeli enemy launched an air attack targeting a civilian car in the Mazzeh residential neighbourhood in Damascus, which led to the death of two civilians, the injury of three others and material damage to private property in the surrounding area,” the source said.
There was no immediate comment by Israel, which rarely provides information about its attacks in Syria.
Israel has been carrying out attacks against what it says are Iran-linked targets in Syria for years but has ramped up such raids over the past 12 months.
Israeli military says it shot down drone from IraqA drone that crossed into Israel from the East and activated warning sirens in the Jordan valley was shot down, the Israeli army said in a post on X.
In an earlier post on Telegram, the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said it launched a drone towards a military target in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Hezbollah says it targets Israeli military camp in occupied GolanHezbollah says it has targeted the Yoav military camp in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights with what it describes as a “large missile barrage”.
There was no immediate comment from the Israeli army.
Meanwhile, to the west, sirens sounded in the Margaliot and Manara areas of Upper Galilee, according to the Israeli Home Front Command.
Israeli military claims killing of Hezbollah commander in Damascus strikeThe Israeli army spokesperson claims that a strike in Syria’s capital killed the commander of a Hezbollah unit who was responsible for the transfer of weapons from Iran.
Hezbollah has not commented yet on the strike.
Israel rejects UN’s request to access JabaliaGabriel Elizondo, Al Jazeera’s correspondent at the United Nations, is reporting that a request by the world body to access Jabalia in northern Gaza has been rejected by Israel for the fourth time.
“UN says urgent request to allow access to Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza to help rescue people trapped under the rubble has been denied by Israel for the fourth consecutive day,” he said in a post on X.
“A separate request to deliver food, water and fuel was also denied by Israel.”
Northern Gaza has been under an Israeli army siege for 17 days now. At least 18 Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp as the forced expulsion by troops in the north continues.
Israeli police arrest seven citizens accused of spying for IranA spy network allegedly gathering information on military bases and energy infrastructure for Iranian intelligence has been broken up, Israeli authorities say.
In a statement, Israel’s internal security agency and police said they “successfully dismantled a spy network involving seven Israeli citizens who were operating on behalf of Iranian intelligence”.
All seven citizens were arrested for engaging in “gathering sensitive information”, the statement said.
More on Israel arresting seven for allegedly spying for IranAs we previously reported, Israeli authorities have arrested seven citizens who they say were paid by Iran to collect intelligence for more than two years.
In a statement, Israel’s internal security agency and police alleged that the seven collected information about other Israelis and photographed Israeli military installations, including missile defence systems, air force and naval sites, and power plants.
Abed Abou Shhada, a Jaffa-based independent journalist, has told Al Jazeera what was particularly distinctive about this case was the identity of the suspects.
“This is without a doubt groundbreaking both for the Israeli society and the Israeli security services, because usually the people who are automatic suspects in these stories were either … Palestinian citizens or Palestinians from the West Bank,” he said. “But now, it’s Israeli Jewish citizens; two of them are minors and one of them was a soldier who deserted from the military.”
The timing was also particularly important, he noted, as the alleged operations happened at a time of war, with Israel having faced attacks by both Iran and Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
Azeri spies in Israel considered ‘reliable’ by Iranian intelligenceSpies operating a network allegedly working for Iranian intelligence in Israel are reported to be immigrants from Azerbaijan, military analyst Elijah Magnier told Al Jazeera.
He said there is a “strong connection between Azerbaijan and Iran in borders but also a strong connection between Azerbaijan and Israel”.
“This is why this makes the Azeri very valuable for both sides where Azerbaijan provides oil to Israel and Israel provides weapons to Azerbaijan,” he said, adding: “This is what makes that community and diaspora extremely attractive” to Iranian intelligence services.
He said the fact that the spies were reported to have carried out 600 missions shows its members are considered “reliable” by Iranian intelligence.
Magnier added that it also represents “a failure” by the Israeli authorities to identify the network “only after two years”.
Palestinians say Israeli army used them as ‘human shields’: ReportIsraeli soldiers in Gaza sent captured Palestinians into unexplored houses and tunnels before soldiers, in violation of international law, according to detainees interviewed by The Guardian.
Ramez al-Skafi, a 30-year-old Palestinian, told the UK newspaper that for 11 days in early July, he was sent into one house after another in his home district of Shujayea in Gaza City – effectively becoming “a human shield against booby-traps and Hamas gunmen”, according to the report.
“I tried to resist their proposal, but they started beating me and the officer told me it was not my choice to make and that I have to do whatever they want,” Skafi was quoted as saying by The Guardian.
Skafi was one of three Palestinians interviewed who gave the newspaper similar accounts of being used in the same manner.
Israeli army dynamites houses in southern Lebanese villageThe Israeli military has blown up houses in a southern Lebanese border village as clashes between Israeli soldiers and Hezbollah fighters are reported in the area.
“The enemy army blew up houses in the village of Aita al-Shaab,” Lebanon’s official National News Agency said.
Heavy fighting is ongoing between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, “which is trying to advance on the ground” in the region, the report said.
Al Jazeera footage shows Israeli tanks stationed on the village’s outskirts.
Palestinian olive farmers attacked with toxic gas by Israeli forcesSeveral Palestinian farmers and international activists were attacked with toxic gas by Israeli forces and settlers while picking olives in Beit Lid, east of Tulkarem, in the occupied West Bank.
The director of the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, Murad Shteiwi, told the Wafa news agency that Israeli forces and settlers fired live rounds and gas canisters towards those harvesting olives.
Dozens of people suffered suffocation-like symptoms from the gas, Shteiwi added. He said the international volunteers refused to leave the area despite Israeli threats.
This year’s olive harvest season is experiencing repeated attacks by settlers and Israeli troops, including burning and cutting down olive trees and preventing farmers from reaching their land.
Israel bombs finance group in LebanonIsraeli air strikes hit a Lebanese business association after accusing it of financing Hezbollah’s weapons.
In southern Lebanon, Israeli strikes hit al-Qard al-Hassan branches in the cities of Nabatieh and Tyre overnight, according to the official National News Agency.
On Monday, the Israeli military said it launched a series of attacks against “dozens of facilities and sites” used by Hezbollah in Beirut and southern Lebanon, including branches of the financial institution.
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