The Amal movement, allied with Hezbollah, declared the death of one of its members in the Israeli fire, informing that he was a native of Khiam.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry also said two people were wounded, including a Syrian, in a “series of Israeli attacks” in the south of the country.

The Israeli army reported today that “about a hundred” of its planes “detected and destroyed thousands of Hezbollah rocket launch pads” to prevent a drone attack by the Lebanese Shiite group.

Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Prime Minister, announced a meeting of the security cabinet overnight. Yoav Gallant, Israel’s defense minister, declared a state of military emergency.

⇒Hezbollah announced the conclusion of its attack today

Hezbollah, on the other hand, announced the conclusion of its attack today, after having launched “a large number of drones” and “more than 320” Katyusha rockets against 11 military bases in Israel and the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel, in response to the death of one of its military leaders in an Israeli attack on Beirut, on July 30.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is expected to speak today at 16:00 (in Lisbon).

The Lebanese National Information Agency (ANI) reported Israeli attacks in a large number of locations in southern Lebanon, some relatively far from the border of the two countries.

This escalation of tension comes as negotiations are being held in Cairo to try to reach a ceasefire in the war in the Gaza Strip, between Hamas and Israel.

The war in Gaza was triggered by an unprecedented attack on Israeli territory by Hamas on October 7 of this year, subsequently initiating the entry of Israeli troops into the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has entered a front of hostilities against Israel on the border between the two countries in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement.

Since October, violence has killed 605 people in Lebanon, including 391 Hezbollah fighters, as well as at least 131 civilians, according to a tally by the AFP news agency.

On the Israeli side, according to the authorities, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians were killed.

The news is advanced by The New York Times, which reports that the country’s Department of Defense believes that in the next decade Beijing will have a nuclear arsenal that will be able to rival Washington.

The highly classified document goes beyond the challenges that exist beyond China: Russia and North Korea.

‘Nuclear Employment Guidance’ is a document that is updated every four years, according to the Times, but this review and subsequent approval was kept secret, as the White House did not announce this change.

⇒O secret document.

The New York Times also details that the document is so secret that there are no digital copies and that only a few Pentagon officials have access to some copies.

But the Times also writes that two officials have been given the ‘green light’ to mention this change. One of the times concerns a nuclear strategist who works for the Pentagon, Vipin Narang.

“The president recently issued a nuclear weapons deployment guide to take into account multiple adversaries,” he said earlier this month, adding that “in particular” the lines of thought had changed and “the significant increase in the size and diversity” of China’s nuclear arsenal had been taken into account.

Also in June, an official of the National Security Council, Pranay Vaddi, referred to the document. The new strategy underlines “the need to simultaneously deter Russia, the People’s Republic of China and North Korea”.

The Times further emphasizes that this new document will “remind” the next U.S. president that the scenario in terms of nuclear arsenal in the world is very different from what it has been until now.

Fonte: The New York Times