Israel-Gaza-Lebanon updates: Iranian president responds to Israel's retaliation

Israel Defense Forces attacked military targets in Iran Saturday.

Last Updated: October 27, 2024, 10:37 PM EDT

The Israel Defense Forces conducted what it called "precise strikes on military targets" in Iran on Friday in response to the Iranian missile strikes earlier this month.

Meanwhile, Israeli airstrikes and ground fighting continued in Gaza -- particularly in the north of the strip -- and in Lebanon, with renewed Israeli attacks on Beirut.

Oct 27, 2024, 12:44 PM EDT

IDF says 6 more Israeli soldiers killed in combat in Lebanon

The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed Sunday that six more Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat in southern Lebanon.

The deaths are in addition to those of 10 soldiers the IDF identified last week and confirmed they also were killed while fighting in southern Lebanon.

Among the fallen soldiers identified on Sunday by the IDF were two military reserve captains, one of whom was a rabbi, Avraham Yosef Goldberg.

The IDF did not release further details on when and precisely where the soldiers were killed.

The casualties speak to the intensity of the fighting in southern Lebanon amid reports that Hezbollah appears to have regrouped after the assassination of leader Hassan Nasrallah and the widespread pager attacks of alleged Hezbollah members in September.

-ABC News' Dana Savir

Oct 27, 2024, 11:32 AM EDT

1 victim dies in suspected terrorist truck-ramming incident in Tel Aviv

One of the victims has died in what Israeli police said they suspect was a terrorist truck-ramming incident at a Tel Aviv bus stop on Sunday that injured more than 30 people, according to hospital officials.

The victim, whose name was not immediately released, died after being taken to Tel Aviv's Ichilov Medical Center.

A preliminary investigation, according to police, indicates that the truck rammed into a bus that was stopped and letting passengers off near the Glilot military base.

The driver of the truck involved in the incident was "neutralized" by armed bystanders, police added.

"The Tel Aviv Ichilov Medical Center regrettably informs that the condition of one of the injured from the run-over incident in Glilot has deteriorated and in the last few minutes the medical staff had to pronounce him dead," the hospital said in a statement.

-ABC News' Dana Savir and Bruno Nota

Oct 27, 2024, 11:02 AM EDT

Satellite imagery appears to show damage from Israeli strike at 2 Iranian military facilities

Satellite imagery taken before and after Israel's retaliatory attack on Iran Friday appeared to show two Iranian military facilities outside Tehran with visible damage to several buildings.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the attack targeted military targets and "achieved all its goals."

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, Sept. 9, 2024.
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This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows damaged buildings at Iran's Parchin military base outside of Tehran, Iran, Oct. 27, 2024.
Planet Labs PBC/AP

The Associated Press obtained satellite imagery from Planet Lab showing Iran's Parchin military base on Sept. 9, 2024, and after Friday's strike. Israel also hit Khojir, a sprawling missile production site near Tehran.

In assessments of the damage based on the satellite imagery, David Albright, a former U.N. weapons inspector, and Decker Eveleth, an associate research analyst for the Washington think tank CNA, told Reuters that the strike hit a building at Parchin that was part of Iran's defunct nuclear weapons development program, and another building used to mix solid fuel for missiles.

Eveleth told Reuters that the facility targeted at Khojir was a missile production plant which Reuters reported had recently undergone a massive expansion.

Eveleth said the Israeli strike may have "significantly hampered Iran's ability to mass produce missiles."

-ABC News' Victoria Beaule

Oct 27, 2024, 9:46 AM EDT

8 killed, 25 hurt in Israeli airstrike on central Lebanon: Lebanese health ministry

At least eight people were killed and 25 others were injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on a town near Beirut, Lebanon, according to the Lebanese health ministry.

The airstrike targeted Sidon, a town halfway between the southern border and Beirut, according to the health ministry.

Video of the aftermath obtained by Reuters showed heavy black smoke rising over Sidon.

The Lebanese National News Agency also reported numerous Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Sunday as well as heavy "violent clashes" in towns near the southern border.

-ABC News' Ghazi Balkiz

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