Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Nasrallah killed for tying Hezbollah cause to Gaza war

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Friday.

Last Updated: September 29, 2024, 2:21 PM EDT

Israel is firing strikes into Lebanon as the conflict in the Middle East intensifies.

Israel believes it has eliminated around 30 top Hezbollah leaders over the last several weeks, including Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut on Friday, U.S. and Israeli officials said.

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Sep 25, 2024, 6:18 AM EDT

IDF in 3rd day of 'extensive strikes' in Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces said Wednesday it was again "conducting extensive strikes in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa area" to the east of Beirut.

Almost 600 people -- including at least 50 children -- have been killed by Israeli strikes across Lebanon since Monday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health.

A cloud of smoke erupts during an Israeli air strike on the village of Sujud in southern Lebanon on Sept. 25, 2024.
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-ABC News Jordana Miller, Ghazi Balkiz and Joe Simonetti

Sep 25, 2024, 3:07 AM EDT

Hezbollah targets Mossad headquarters in Tel Aviv

Hezbollah claimed the launch of a Qadir-1 ballistic missile targeting the Mossad intelligence agency's headquarters on the outskirts of Tel Aviv on Wednesday morning.

"It is the headquarters responsible for the assassination of leaders and the bombing of pagers and hand-held radios," the militant group said in a statement, referring to last week's communication device explosions in Lebanon and Syria.

PHOTO: Israel's David's Sling system operates for interception as rockets are fired from Lebanon, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 25, 2024.
Israel's David's Sling system operates for interception as rockets are fired from Lebanon, amid the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Israel and Hamas and cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel, as seen from Tel Aviv, Israel, Sept. 25, 2024.
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Sirens sounded in Tel Aviv amid the attack. "One surface-to-surface missile was identified crossing from Lebanon and was intercepted," the Israel Defense Forces said in a statement.

The IDF later said in a social media post that it destroyed the launcher from which the missile was fired in southern Lebanon.

The launch at Tel Aviv is the first time Hezbollah has attacked the city in central Israel since the war in the Gaza Strip began on Oct. 7.

-ABC News' Jordana Miller, Ghazi Balkiz, Jason Volack and Joe Simonetti

Sep 24, 2024, 7:37 PM EDT

Hezbollah confirms death of division commander

Hezbollah has confirmed the death of rocket and missile division commander Ibrahim Qubaisi in a post on their Telegram channel.

Hezbollah said he was killed in southern Lebanon.

Earlier Tuesday, the Israel Defense Forces said an Israeli air attack in Da'ahia in Beirut killed Qubaisi.

-ABC News' Ellie Kaufman

Sep 24, 2024, 7:03 PM EDT

52 killed in Gaza in past 24 hours, officials say

Israeli forces targeted eight residential homes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, killing at least 52 people, spokesperson Major Mahmoud Basal of the Hamas-run Gaza Civil Defense said Tuesday.

At least five of those people were killed after a house in the town of Al-Nasr, northeast of Rafah, was targeted, the civil defense spokesperson added.

The IDF said they were conducting "precise, intelligence-based operations in the Rafah area" in a statement Tuesday.

-ABC News' Sami Zyara and Jordana Miller