Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar, the mastermind behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, was killed this week in a firefight with Israeli forces, officials said.
The development comes as Israel continues intense air and ground campaigns against Hezbollah in Lebanon and against Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
The uptick in offensive operations came as Israeli leaders planned their response to Iran's latest ballistic missile attack.
70 projectiles fired into Israel from Lebanon, IDF says
The Israel Defense Forces said it identified around 70 projectiles fired into Israel from Lebanon on Sunday morning.
The launches set off sirens in the Western Galilee and Upper Galilee areas, the IDF wrote in a statement posted to X.
Some projectiles were intercepted, the IDF said.
"Israel Fire and Rescue Services are operating to extinguish numerous fires that were ignited in the area as a result of the attack," the IDF wrote.
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IDF claims killing of Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon
The Israel Defense Forces on Sunday reported the killing of a senior member of Hezbollah's southern front command.
Al-Haj Abbas Salama was killed by an airstrike in the Tebnine area of southern Lebanon, the IDF wrote on social media.
Salama, the IDF said, was involved in "many terrorist plots" and served in several positions in Hezbollah's southern front command.
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WHO chief condemns latest attacks on Gaza hospitals
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus reiterated calls for the protection of the few hospitals still operating inside Gaza on Saturday, following reports of fresh Israeli strikes on two health care facilities in the north of the strip.
"Hostilities in the vicinity of hospitals can quickly make them non-functional by compromising access," Ghebreyesus wrote on X. "We cannot request any more loudly: health care must be protected."
World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus addresses participants of the World Health Summit 2024 in Berlin, Germany, on Oct. 14, 2024.
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Ghebreyesus' latest appeal followed reported Israeli attacks on the Indonesian Hospital and Al-Awda Hospital in northern Gaza.
Both are in the Jabalia area in the north of the strip, which is the focus of a fresh Israeli offensive and a sweeping evacuation order for residents.
"We call for sustained and safe access to reach all patients and health workers in need," Ghebreyesus wrote. "We call for an immediate ceasefire!"
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The WHO chief said the organization is "planning a mission to Kamal Adwan hospital" in Beit Lahia -- just north of Jabalia -- on Sunday "to deliver fuel, medical supplies, blood, food and transfer critical patients to Shifa hospital."
"It is vital that Kamal Adwan and Al-Awda hospitals remain operational," Ghebreyesus said.
Gaza's 36 hospitals and nine field hospitals have been badly affected by more than a year of war.
ABC News analysis found that as of Sept. 24, only four field hospitals were still functional, all in the central or southern areas of the strip. Twenty-two hospitals were partially functioning, with the remaining 19 non-functioning.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz on Sunday dismissed Iran's denial of involvement in a drone attack that targeted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in the northwestern coastal town of Caesarea on Saturday.
Iran's mission to the United Nations attributed the attack to its Lebanese ally Hezbollah, per a statement to the official IRNA news agency.
Israeli security forces gather on a street leading to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's residence in Caesarea on Oct. 19, 2024.
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One drone impacted a building close to Netanyahu's residence. Two others were intercepted. A spokesperson for his office said neither the prime minister nor his wife were present at the time of the attack.
"The primary proxy, the tentacle Iran created, funded, armed, trained, and now controls in all its operations, is suddenly portrayed as an independent entity," Katz wrote in a post to X on Sunday.
"Your lies and false pretenses won't help you -- you are responsible," the foreign minister added, referring to Iran.
Netanyahu also blamed Tehran. "The proxies of Iran who today tried to assassinate me and my wife made a bitter mistake," the prime minister said shortly after the incident.
