Crisis in the Middle East live: Israeli Air Force attacks hit Yemen; over 50 dead in Lebanon

Air strikes on the port of Hodeida in Yemen

There are reports of an airstrike on the Red Sea port city Hodeida in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit.

Hodeidah, which has been under Houthi control since 2021, is crucial to supplying food and other essentials to the Yemeni population, which relies on imports. In response to Israel’s ongoing attack on Gaza, the Iran-backed Houthis have fired missiles and drones at Israel, disrupting global trade across the Red Sea.

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Here are some of the latest images coming through news outlets from Lebanon, where Israeli strikes across the country have killed over 50 people in the last 24 hours:

A boy who fled Beirut’s southern suburbs with his family amid ongoing Israeli airstrikes sleeps on a street in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024. Photo: Hussein Malla/AP

People who fled their homes in southern Lebanon take refuge in a parking lot in the southern city of Sidon on September 29, 2024. Photo: Mahmoud Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images

First responders inspect the rubble of a building after it was attacked by an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Ain El Delb on September 29, 2024. Photo: AFP/Getty Images

A newborn baby sleeps in Martyrs Square after being displaced by Israeli air strikes in Beirut, Lebanon, on September 29, 2024. Photo: Carl Court/Getty Images

Lebanese Ministry of Health: Over 50 dead in recent Israeli attacks

According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, over 50 people were killed in Israel’s recent attacks on Lebanon.

On Sunday, the Health Ministry reported that 21 people were killed and 47 others injured in Israeli strikes in Baalbek-Hermel in eastern Lebanon.

The ministry also reported that 32 people were killed and another 53 injured in Ain al-Delb, an increase from the ministry’s previously reported figures of 24 people killed and 29 injured in the southern village.

The death toll in the Israeli attack on Ain el-Delb, a village in southern Lebanon, has risen to 32, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The Health Ministry said today that Israeli airstrikes killed 21 people in Baalbek-Hemel, eastern Lebanon, on Sunday.

Four dead and at least 30 injured in Israeli attacks on Yemen – report

According to Agence France-Presse, Houthi-run media reports that four people were killed and at least 30 injured in recent Israeli attacks on Yemen.

Among the four people killed were a port worker and three engineers, Al-Masirah TV reports.

Thirty-three people were injured in the “first death penalty,” the outlet added.

Houthi media reports that four people were killed in recent Israeli airstrikes, according to Agence France-Presse.

Following the assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, violent clashes broke out between Jamaat-e-Islami members and Pakistani security forces in Pakistan:

Violent clashes in Pakistan after Hezbollah leader's assassination - video — Violent clashes in Pakistan after Hezbollah leader’s assassination – video

Lebanese Ministry of Health: Israeli airstrikes kill 21 people in Baalbek-Hemel

The Lebanese Health Ministry said Israeli airstrikes killed 21 people in eastern Lebanon on Sunday, Agence France Press reports.

“21 people were killed and 47 injured in the Israeli enemy attacks on Baalbek-Hemel,” the ministry said, giving a preliminary figure.

Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the Lebanese town of Baalbek in the Bekaa Valley on September 29, 2024. Photo: Nidal Solh/AFP/Getty Images

The bomb that Israel used to kill the Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah According to US Senator Mark Kelly, it was made in the USA.

On Sunday, Kelly, chairwoman of the Senate Air and Space Subcommittee, told NBC that Israel had used a 900kg Mark 84 bomb.

“We are seeing increasing use of guided munitions, JDAMs (Joint Direct Attack Munitions), and we continue to provide these weapons,” Kelly said, Reuters reports.

“That 2,000-pound bomb that was used, that is a Mark 84 series bomb, to take out Nasrallah.”

The Israeli military did not comment on the weapons used in the attack, which killed Nasrallah and leveled at least six residential buildings, killing several people and wounding dozens more.

Here are some images coming through news outlets from the Israeli attacks on the Yemeni port of Hodeidah:

Smoke rises from the site of Israeli airstrikes in the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah, Yemen, September 29, 2024. Photo: Reuters

Peter Beaumont

The Israeli Air Force said the attack on Yemen was carried out by F-15s from Israel’s Tel Nof Air Base, accompanied by support aircraft.

Peter Beaumont

Post on X, Israel’s Defense Minister, Yoav Gallantsaid the raid proved that no place was too far away for Israel to hit.

“’I will pursue my enemies, and I will overtake them, and I will not return until the end of them’ (Psalms, chapter 18, verse 38),” Gallant wrote.

“I followed the attack against the Houthis from the air force control room. The message is clear: no place is too far for us,” he added.

אֶרְדּוֹף אוֹיְבַי וְאַשִּׂיגֵם וְלֹא אָשׁוּב עַד כַּלּוֹתָם״ (תה לים, פרק י״ח, פסוק ל״ח).

עקבתי מתא השליטה של חיל האוויר אחרי התקיפה כנגד החות׳ים. המסר ברור – עבורנו, אין מקום רחוק מידי. pic.twitter.com/1VcS8UvxzW

— יואב גלנט – Yoav Gallant (@yoavgallant) September 29, 2024

Peter Beaumont

It seems clear that the large and sophisticated airstrike in Yemen was not only intended to attack Houthi targets, but was also intended to signal to Iran that the Israeli Air Force was ready and able to launch long-range airstrikes.

Peter Beaumont

Senior Houthi official Nasr ad-Din Amer, who also serves as head of Yemen’s Saba news agency, wrote on Twitter/X:

The attacks failed. Precautions were taken, the oil tanks in the port of Ras Issa and Hodeidah were emptied in advance, and an emergency plan was in place. The Zionists will not stop our operations under any circumstances, we will improve them qualitatively.

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