New details of Israel's pager & radio attacks on Hezbollah

Washington Post, citing Israeli and American officials:

— Mossad planned to blow up Hezbollah pagers in 2022. Hezbollah pagers were made in Israel under Mossad supervision.

— The explosives were carefully hidden in the pagers to avoid detection even if they were dismantled. The pager deal was offered to Hezbollah by a marketing official in 2023.

— Mossad began smuggling booby-trapped radios into Lebanon in 2015. The batteries of the booby-trapped radios were large and contained explosives and a system to monitor communications.

— Israelis eavesdropped on Hezbollah wireless communications for 9 years and kept the option of turning them into bombs.

No difference from Gaza: Israel is now destroying mosques in Lebanon.

Flights have been cancelled at Iranian airports from tonight until Monday morning.

Wounded Russian soldiers simultaneously commit double suicide by detonating grenades after an unsuccessful assault.

Russian soldiers shot three unarmed Ukrainian soldiers at close range in New York.

Israeli Broadcasting Authority:

Israeli response to Iran delayed due to doubts about the severity of the impact.

Reuters, citing Iranian officials:

Quds Force commander Qaani, who was in Lebanon after Nasrallah's killing, has not been heard from since the Beirut strikes last week.

The Netherlands has delivered the first batch of F-16 jets to Ukraine out of the 24 promised, the rest will be sent in the coming months.

EXCLUSIVE: Multiple regional security sources told Clash Report that they believe Iranian Foreign Minister Araghchi’s visit to Beirut was aimed at facilitating the return of IRGC Quds Force General Qaani’s body to Iran.

Senior Hezbollah official Qmati says to Reuters “we have no information” on reports that IRGC Quds Force Commander Qaani is missing after Israeli airstrike in Beirut.

“We are also searching for the truth of this matter.”

Israeli Army:

— 726 Israeli soldiers have been killed since 7 October 2023.
— About 12,400 missiles have been fired at Israel from Lebanon since the beginning of the war.
— More than 400 missiles have been fired at Israel from Iran since the beginning of the war.

Israeli Army:

— Struck more than 40,000 targets, found 4,700 tunnel shafts and destroyed 1,000 rocket launchers.

— More than 800 Hezbollah members were killed in Lebanon.

— In Lebanon, 4,900 targets were hit from the air and about 6,000 targets were hit on the ground.

— More than 5,000 Palestinian ‘suspects’ were arrested in the West Bank and Jordan Valley.

— In Gaza, it announced that it had killed eight Palestinian brigade commanders, about 30 battalion commanders and 165 company commanders.

Israeli army:

91st Galilee Regional Division, which includes the Alexandroni (3), Hazen (8) and North Nahal (228) reserve brigades, began ground operations in southern Lebanon last night.

It seems pro-Hezbollah Al-Mayadeen and Al-Akhbar telegram channels and websites were hacked by Israel.

Al-Mayadeen's telegram channel was hacked and a photograph of Khamenei on a sinking tugboat was posted: ‘Karbala, Karbala... we are coming for you with iron swords, because the losers are Hezbollah.’

Al Mayadeen:

Al Mayadeen Media Network website and platforms are under cyber attack and our technical team is working to solve the problem as soon as possible.

There's a telegram post war between Israel and Al Mayadeen. Every time Israel sends Khamenei's post, Al Mayadeen deletes it. Interesting moments.

Wall Street Journal:

Viktor Bout, the Russian arms dealer known as the ‘Merchant of Death’, is at it again, trying to broker the sale of small arms to Yemen's Iranian-backed Houthi militants.

According to a European security official and others familiar with the matter, Houthi envoys met with Bout in August when they travelled to Moscow to purchase $10 million worth of automatic weapons.

According to the sources, the arms delivery has not yet taken place. The weapons allegedly do not include weapons that could threaten the Houthis' Red Sea merchant shipping traffic.

The Biden administration was concerned that Russia might provide such advanced weapons to the Houthis in exchange for its support for Ukraine, but there is no evidence that these missiles were sent or that Bout was involved in any such deal.

Israeli prime minister Netanyahu summoned the cabinet to a meeting in his office for an ‘emergency consultation’.