DAMASCUS — An Israeli drone attack targeted and destroyed a weapons depot in the coastal Syrian city of Jableh before daybreak Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported.

The attack carried out via drones and warplane missiles leveled the depot and caused massive explosions heard from long distances, said the UK-based watchdog group.

It added that the Syrian air defenses and Russian forces responded to the attack within 40 to 50 minutes. The depot is situated near the Hmeimim Air Base, the largest Russian air base in Syria, located in the northwestern province of Latakia.

No immediate reports of casualties have been reported.

While there is no official confirmation, the pro-government Sham FM radio said the sounds heard in the skies over Jableh were the air defenses intercepting targets off the coast.

It added that firefighting teams headed to a site in the vicinity of Jableh after columns of fire were seen rising from it, but no information was provided about its nature.

This latest attack follows a series of Israeli airstrikes in Syria this week.

On Wednesday, two Lebanese nationals, including Hassan Jafar Qasir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residence in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood of Damascus.

On Tuesday, an Israeli missile strike hit a site about 500 meters from Wednesday’s target, killing three people, including a journalist, and injuring nine others.

Israel frequently conducts airstrikes in Syria, targeting what it says are positions linked to Iran and Hezbollah.

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NEW YORK — Rescue, relief and recovery efforts continued in hurricane-stricken southeastern U.S. states as the death toll rose to over 180 on Wednesday.

At least 189 people have died across six states and hundreds are still missing as a result of the storm and its aftermath as of Wednesday evening, reported CNN.

North Carolina has reported 95 deaths, while South Carolina has reported 39 deaths so far, said the report.

Helene has killed 25 people in Georgia and 19 in Florida. The death toll in Tennessee and Virginia stands at nine and two, respectively.

U.S. President Joe Biden decided Wednesday to immediately deploy “up to 1,000 active-duty soldiers to support the delivery of food, water and other critical commodities to communities affected by Hurricane Helene.”

Those soldiers will join over 6,000 U.S. National Guard personnel from 12 states and more than 4,800 personnel from across the federal workforce to support effective Hurricane response.

Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, traveled separately to the storm-ravaged states on Wednesday.

“He will take an aerial tour of areas impacted by Hurricane Helene in Western North Carolina, receive operational briefings and meet with first responders and local officials. He will also engage with first responders and officials in South Carolina,” said the White House in a press release, adding that Biden will also visit Florida and Georgia in the coming days.

Biden joined a briefing on Hurricane Helene relief efforts in Raleigh, the capital city of North Carolina, after spending the day touring Greenville, South Carolina, and surveying damage across North Carolina, NBC News reported.

Biden called the disaster a “storm of historic proportions” and noted that damage is still being assessed as people remain unaccounted for, the report added.

Harris visited Georgia on Wednesday and will travel to North Carolina in the coming days. Her Republican rival, former U.S. President Donald Trump, visited the storm area in Georgia on Monday.

Officials said that power outages are improving as restoration teams from across the nation gain access to communities and debris is removed. About 1.6 million customers are still without power as of Wednesday morning, which is a reduction of more than 65 percent from the region-wide peak of 4.6 million.

U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency has shipped over 8.5 million meals, more than 7 million liters of water, 150 generators and over 220,000 tarps to aid response efforts for the historic storm, according to the White House.

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TUARAN — Seorang wanita nyaris maut selepas kereta dipandu terjunam ke dalam gaung sedalam 60 meter berhampiran Kampung Minangkob, Tamparuli di sini, petang tadi.

Kejadian berlaku kira-kira jam 2 petang menyebabkan mangsa, 22, yang memandu pacuan empat roda jenis Isuzu Dmax tercedera.

Ketua Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Daerah Tuaran, Mohammad Nor Amit berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan jam 2.09 petang sebelum lapan anggota dikejarkan ke lokasi.

“Mangsa yang cedera diberi rawatan awal sebelum dihantar ke hospital Tuaran menggunakan ambulans untuk rawatan lanjut,” katanya ketika dihubungi hari ini.

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LANGKAWI: Seorang kakitangan Eagle’s Nest SkyWalk (ENS) dikhuatiri terjatuh di lereng Gunung Machinchang di sini, hari ini.

Dalam kejadian kira-kira jam 1 tengah hari itu, mangsa, Khairul Nizam Jaffar, 41, dilaporkan terjatuh pada ketinggian dianggar antara 40 hingga 50 meter.

Ketua Bomba Zon 4 Langkawi, Penguasa Bomba Mohd Zamri Abd Ghani, berkata pihaknya menerima panggilan kecemasan jam 1.15 tengah hari, sebelum sebuah jentera bersama lapan anggota dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Padang Matsirat dikejarkan ke lokasi.

“Keadaan mangsa belum dapat dipastikan dan pasukan bomba kini dalam operasi mencari dan menyelamat di lokasi.

“Kerja mencari dan menyelamat sedang berjalan dan sebarang perkembangan akan dimaklumkan elepas mendapat maklumat lanjut daripada pegawai operasi,” katanya.

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KUALA LUMPUR — Dua belas pegawai dan anggota polis Kedah yang didapati positif dadah dalam serbuan di sebuah pusat hiburan di Sungai Petani semalam digantung tugas serta-merta.

Arahan itu dikeluarkan Ketua Polis Negara, Tan Sri Razarudin Husain kepada Ketua Polis Kedah, Datuk Fisol Salleh, dengan Tindakan mengikut Peraturan 3C Peraturan-Peraturan Pegawai Awam (Kelakuan dan Tatatertib) 1993 akan diambil.

“Saya sudah mengarahkan Ketua Polis Kedah untuk menggantung (tugas) pegawai dan anggota ini dengan segera.

“Penyelia juga akan dipindahkan dari jawatan semasa kerana mereka tidak layak untuk menguruskan anak buah mereka,” katanya kepada BH, hari ini.

Beliau berkata demikian ketika mengulas tangkapan 12 pegawai dan anggota itu dalam serbuan Jabatan Integriti dan Pematuhan Standards (JIP) Bukit Aman.

Mengulas lanjut, Razarudin berkata pegawai dan anggota polis sepatutnya menjadi contoh dan teladan kepada masyarakat.

“Kita ditugaskan untuk menegakkan undang-undang dan bertanggungjawab untuk menjaga keselamatan orang awam. Pegawai dan anggota polis harus sentiasa bertindak mengikut undang-undang.

“Tiada kompromi dengan mana-mana pegawai dan anggota yang didapati melakukan jenayah dan masalah disiplin,” katanya.

Tegas beliau, pihaknya juga tidak akan melindungi ‘buah buruk’ yang boleh mencemarkan nama pasukan polis dan akan mengambil tindakan tegas.

“Jadikan ini sebagai amaran keras. Pegawai dan anggota polis diberi amanah untuk menegakkan undang-undang, tetapi itu tidak bermakna anda berada di atas undang-undang.

“Kita akan mengambil tindakan yang sewajarnya mengikut undang-undang terhadap anggota yang didapati melakukan sebarang kesalahan jenayah dan tidak akan berdiam diri,” katanya.

Sementara itu, Pengarah JIPS Bukit Aman, Datuk Seri Azri Ahmad, berkata serbuan itu dilakukan susulan maklumat diterima pihaknya.

“Dalam serbuan berkenaan 31 individu ditahan dan 12 daripadanya pegawai dan anggota polis kerana positif dadah.

“Siasatan lanjut dijalankan Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Sungai Petani. Sampel kedua ujian air kencing akan diambil dan dihantar ke pihak patalogi hospital bagi proses tahan kerja,” katanya.

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ALOR SETAR — Seorang lelaki ditemui lemas dalam kereta dipandunya yang terjunam ke Sungai Santap di Kampung Baru, Telaga Mas, di sini, hari ini.

Mangsa, Muhammad Noor Fadzil Mustapha, 25, meninggal dunia di lokasi kejadian dengan mayatnya dikeluarkan dengan bantuan Jabatan Bomba dan Penyelamat Malaysia (JBPM).

Komander Operasi JBPM Kedah, Penguasa Kanan Bomba II Abd Fataf Hamdan, berkata sepasukan anggota dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Pokok Sena dikejarkan ke lokasi sebaik menerima panggilan jam 10.25 pagi.

“Maklumat awal diterima kejadian itu membabitkan dua mangsa, namun selepas pemeriksaan hanya seorang mangsa sahaja terbabit.

“Mangsa ditemui masih di tempat duduk pemandu dan sebaik dikeluarkan dia disahkan sudah meninggal dunia oleh petugas Kementerian Kesihatan (KKM),” katanya.

Penduduk kampung, Mohd Subhi Mohd Shukor, 30, ketika ditemui berkata sebaik terbabas dan terjunam ke sungai, kereta itu tenggelam perlahan-lahan.

“Mangsa cuba menyelamatkan diri tetapi gagal sebelum ditemui lemas,” katanya.

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SEPANG — Seorang pegawai dan empat anggota polis didakwa di Mahkamah Majistret, di sini hari ini atas pertuduhan memeras ugut dengan meminta RM4,300 daripada seorang lelaki yang kononnya memiliki dadah, Ogos lalu.

Inspektor Adli Zil-Ikram Ahmad Azman, 38, bersama empat anggota berpangkat Koperal dan Lans Koperal, iaitu G Neshan Kumar, 34; Mohd Fiezi Zaimin, 32; Amirul Asri Deli, 30, dan Bernard John Gempeh, 42, didakwa di hadapan Majistret Muhammad Bukhori Md Ruslan.

Mereka yang bertugas di Bahagian Siasatan Jenayah Narkotik di Ibu Pejabat Polis Daerah (IPD) Sepang dituduh mendatangkan ketakutan dengan mengatakan terdapat banyak kes dadah terhadap lelaki berusia 34 tahun itu.

Ia mendorong mangsa menyerahkan wang tunai RM4,300 di hadapan CIMB Bank, Cyber 5, Cyberjaya, dekat sini, antara jam 6.20 petang pada 18 Ogos hingga 12.30 malam, 19 Ogos.

Semua tertuduh didakwa mengikut Seksyen 384 Kanun Keseksaan dibaca bersama Seksyen 34 kanun sama yang memperuntukkan hukuman penjara sehingga 10 tahun atau denda atau sebat atau mana-mana dua daripada hukuman berkenaan, jika sabit kesalahan.

Mereka bagaimanapun mengaku tidak bersalah sebelum Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Nur ‘Ain Madihah Zulkifli memohon setiap tertuduh diikat jamin RM6,000 dengan syarat tambahan tidak mengganggu saksi pendakwaan.

Bagaimanapun, peguam daripada Yayasan Bantuan Guaman Kebangsaan (YBGK), Nik Azhar Nik Adib yang mewakili Adli Zil-Ikram, Neshan, Mohd Fiezi dan Bernard memohon semua anak guamnya diberi ikat jamin rendah.

Beliau memberi alasan mereka berkhidmat dalam pasukan keselamatan itu antara tujuh hingga 15 tahun dan tiada risiko melarikan diri, semua sudah berkahwin kecuali Neshan dan masing-masing menanggung anak dan ibu bapa yang sudah uzur.

Peguam, Muhammad Qurtubi Kamruldzaman yang mewakili Amirul Asri memohon anak guamnya yang berpangkat Lans Koperal dengan pendapatan RM2,500 dan juga anak bongsu, diikat jamin RM2,000 kerana menjaga ibu bapa berusia 70 tahun.

Muhammad Bukhori membenarkan ikat jamin RM2,000 setiap tertuduh dan mengenakan syarat tambahan mereka tidak mengganggu saksi pendakwaan sebelum menetapkan 7 November depan untuk sebutan kes.

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KUALA LUMPUR — Mahkamah Sesyen di sini hari ini menolak permohonan Presiden BERSATU, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin untuk mendapatkan sementara pasport antarabangsanya.

Perkara itu diputuskan Hakim Azura Alwi selepas mendapati alasan dikemukakan pemohon tidak mewajarkan mahkamah melepaskan pasport itu.

Azura berkata, walaupun ditolak pemohon tidak dihalang menjalani kehidupan dan menjalankan tanggungjawabnya.

“Pemohon masih boleh bercuti atau meraikan apa-apa keraian cuma bukanlah di luar negara,” katanya.

Sebelum itu, ketika hujahan, peguam Datuk Hisyam Teh Poh Teik yang mewakili Muhyiddin berkata tiada risiko anak guamnya untuk melarikan diri kerana ahli keluarganya berada di Malaysia.

“Beliau tidak pernah gagal hadir ke mahkamah jika kehadirannya diperlukan dan telah beri kerjasama terhadap Suruhanjaya Pencegah Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) sepanjang siasatan,” katanya.

Muhyiddin yang juga Ahli Parlimen Pagoh dalam afidavit permohonannya memohon mahkamah mengembalikan pasport antarabangsanya selama lapan hari bermula 4 hingga 14 Oktober depan.

Ia untuk membolehkan beliau dan isteri melakukan perjalanan singkat ke Uzbekistan sebagai bentuk rehat dari pelbagai cabaran dihadapinya dalam beberapa bulan kebelakangan ini.

Timbalan Pendakwa Raya Noralis Mat membantah permohonan itu dengan menyatakan kesalahan dipertuduhkan terhadap pemohon adalah kesalahan yang tidak boleh dijamin seperti mana dikemukakan pihak saksi.

“Pihak pendakwaan membantah atas alasan diberikan adalah remeh dan tidak munasabah.

“Alasan digunakan pemohon adalah untuk bercuti kerana tertekan dengan pertuduhan mahkamah, selain itu pemohon juga menunjukkan bahawa beliau sangat penat dan perlu bercuti di luar negara bersama keluarga.

“Ini adalah satu alasan yang remeh, percutian dan sambutan ulang tahun boleh dibuat di Malaysia,” katanya.

Mahkamah sebelum ini pernah memulangkan sementara pasport kepada Muhyiddin atas pelbagai alasan termasuk melawat ahli keluarga, mendapatkan rawatan perubatan serta menghadiri program di luar negara.

Terbaru pada 3 Julai lalu apabila Muhyiddin memohon untuk menghadiri majlis graduasi cucunya di London.

Muhyiddin, 77, didakwa menggunakan kedudukan beliau sebagai Perdana Menteri ketika itu untuk menerima suapan RM232.5 juta berkaitan Projek Jana Wibawa daripada tiga syarikat iaitu Bukhary Equity Sdn Bhd, Nepturis Sdn Bhd dan Mamfor Sdn Bhd serta Datuk Azman Yusoff, bagi BERSATU.

Beliau dituduh melakukan perbuatan itu di Pejabat Perdana Menteri di Bangunan Perdana Putra di Putrajaya antara 1 Mac 2020 dan 20 Ogos 2021.

Muhyiddin juga berdepan dua pertuduhan menerima wang hasil aktiviti haram berjumlah RM195 juta daripada Bukhary Equity Sdn Bhd yang dimasukkan ke akaun CIMB Bank milik BERSATU di CIMB Bank Cawangan Menara KL antara 25 Februari dan 16 Julai 2021, serta 8 Februari dan 8 Julai 2022.

Beliau juga dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen Shah Alam pada 13 Mac tahun lalu atas pertuduhan menerima wang hasil aktiviti haram berjumlah RM5 juta dan kes itu dipindahkan ke Mahkamah Sesyen di sini untuk dibicarakan bersama.

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TAWAU — Dua budak lelaki, masing-masing berusia 13 dan 14 tahun dihadapkan ke Mahkamah Majistret, di sini hari ini, atas pertuduhan merogol seorang kanak-kanak perempuan secara berkumpulan, minggu lalu.

Mereka didakwa di hadapan Penolong Pendaftar Mahkamah Tawau, Mohd Afiz Huzairi Ayob, mengikut Seksyen 376(2)(e) Kanun Keseksaan dibaca bersama Seksyen 34 kanun sama.

Seksyen berkenaan memperuntukkan hukuman penjara antara 10 tahun hingga 30 tahun dan sebat jika sabit kesalahan.

Dua kanak-kanak berkenaan didakwa merogol budak perempuan berumur 12 tahun di sebuah kebun di belakang rumah tidak bernombor di daerah ini, kira-kira jam 9.40 malam 26 September lalu.

Tiada sebarang pengakuan direkodkan daripada kedua-kedua tertuduh yang tidak diwakili peguam. Timbalan Pendakwa Raya, Batrisyia Mohd Khusri kemudian tidak menawarkan sebarang jaminan.

Mahkamah menetapkan 21 November depan untuk sebutan semula kes di hadapan Majistret Dayang Aidaku Amira Aminuddin.

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JITRA — Shubiah Roslina Shahibi, 57, reda dengan ketentuan Allah SWT bahawa suaminya, Sabari Baharom sudah tiada selepas operasi hari ketiga mencari pesara FELCRA itu yang dipercayai dicampak ‘hidup-hidup’ ke Sungai Padang Terap, di sini, menemui jalan buntu.

Katanya, dia dan keluarga berpuas hati dengan usaha pasukan pencarian di sekitar kawasan sungai tempat suaminya dipercayai dicampak dengan kedua-dua tangan dipercayai diikat dan mulut ditutup pita pelekat dalam kejadian lebih sebulan lalu itu.

“Saya puas hati dengan usaha mereka, atas kemampuan mereka dalam operasi mencari suami saya. Polis pun cakap, mereka tahu usaha ini sudah lewat sebab kejadian berlaku pada 4 September lalu.

“Operasi mencari dibuat selepas polis menahan dua suspek,” katanya ketika ditemui di lokasi pencarian di Sungai Padang Terap di Kampung Empa, Wang Tepus, di sini hari ini.

Shubiah berkata, jasad suaminya, pesara pegawai kewangan FELCRA berusia 62 tahun itu mungkin tidak akan ditemukan walaupun selepas pencarian selama tiga hari.

“Keluarga tahu dan terima bahawa suami saya sudah tiada lagi. Jika jasadnya ditemukan Alhamdulillah, jika tidak, tidak mengapa, itu semua ketentuan Allah. Saya ucapkan terima kasih atas usaha pihak berkuasa mengesan jasad suami,” katanya.

Katanya, mereka juga sudah dimaklumkan oleh pihak berkuasa kemungkinan untuk menemui jasad suaminya tipis.

“Sebelum ini, banjir besar melanda kawasan itu selama kira-kira seminggu, diikuti banjir lain selama empat hari. Arus deras boleh menyebabkan pelbagai kemungkinan,” katanya.

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BEIRUT — Israel launched an airstrike early Thursday morning targeting the Health Authority Center affiliated with Hezbollah in the al-Bachoura area, central Beirut, causing a massive fire, al-Jadeed local TV channel reported.

TV footage showed heavy black smoke rising from the building.

The airstrike also led to significant damage to nearby houses and parked vehicles. Ambulances and civil defense teams have rushed to the area for rescue.

According to Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health, at least 5 people were killed in the airstrike in the al-Bachoura area.

Shortly before the strike in central Beirut, Israel launched three strong airstrikes on the Haret Hreik area in Beirut’s southern suburbs, the TV channel reported.

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DAMASCUS — Two Lebanese nationals, including Hassan Jafar Qasir, the son-in-law of late Hezbollah leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a residence in the Mazzeh Western Villas neighborhood of Damascus on Wednesday, a war monitor reported.

The Israeli strike, which hit the first floor of a three-story building frequented by Hezbollah and Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps leaders, left three people dead, including two non-Syrians, and injured at least four others whose identities remain unknown, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

For its part, the Syrian Defense Ministry said three civilians were killed and three others injured in the strike. The ministry said the attack was launched from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.

Israel killed Nasrallah in a powerful airstrike in the Lebanese capital Beirut on Sept. 27.

Wednesday’s attack marks the second Israeli airstrike in the area this week. On Tuesday morning, Israel targeted a site approximately 500 meters from Wednesday’s strike, killing three people, including a journalist, and injuring nine others.

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UNITED NATIONS — More than 700,000 people are now internally displaced in Haiti, an increase of 22 percent since June, a UN spokesman said Wednesday, citing new figures from the International Organization for Migration.

Over half of the people displaced are children, said Stephane Dujarric, spokesman for the UN secretary-general, at a daily briefing.

He said the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs is deeply concerned by rising displacement in recent months, as escalating gang violence deepens the country’s humanitarian crisis.

About three-quarters of the displaced seek shelter in other provinces, with the Grand Sud region alone hosting nearly half of the total displaced population. In Port-au-Prince, the capital, where the security situation remains highly unstable, a quarter of those displaced live in overcrowded sites, with limited access to basic services, said Dujarric.

The school year started in Haiti on Tuesday, and UN humanitarian partners have been working closely with the authorities to support the national back-to-school campaign. Some 1.4 million students and teachers have experienced severe disruptions to education over the past year due to ongoing insecurity.

Dujarric said that in partnership with local organizations, the UN Children’s Fund is offering various forms of support, including by providing cash transfers so that families can cover school-related costs, helping displaced children integrate into host schools, distributing school kits, and ensuring schools are rehabilitated and have adequate supplies.

“However, these response efforts remain significantly underfunded,” he said, adding that just 30 percent of the 30 million U.S. dollars needed to provide education support to children in Haiti this year has been received.

Overall, the humanitarian response plan for Haiti this year remains only 39 percent funded, with 264 million dollars of the 674 million dollars required to provide life-saving assistance to the people of the country, said Dujarric.

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GAZA — Three Palestinians were killed and 15 others injured in an Israeli airstrike in the central Gaza Strip, said Palestinian sources on Wednesday.

The Civil Defense in Gaza said in a press statement that its team recovered the bodies and injuries from the Nuseirat Elementary School housing displaced persons in the Nuseirat camp in central Gaza.

Local eyewitnesses told Xinhua that an Israeli warplane bombed the Nuseirat Elementary School with at least one missile, causing heavy damage to the infrastructure.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee said in a press statement that with intelligence guidance, the Israeli air force carried out a strike on “terrorists who were operating in a command and control complex in an area previously used as the Nuseirat Girls School in central Gaza.”

The statement added that the command and control complex was used by Hamas members “to plan and carry out terrorist operations against IDF forces and the State of Israel.”

Israel launched a large-scale offensive against Hamas in Gaza to retaliate against a Hamas rampage through the southern Israeli border on Oct. 7, 2023, during which 1,200 people were killed and about 250 others taken hostage.

The Palestinian death toll from ongoing Israeli attacks in the strip has risen to 41,689, the Gaza-based health authorities said in a statement on Wednesday.

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JERUSALEM — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced Wednesday that eight of its soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

The soldiers were killed in two battles in southern Lebanon. Three officers and three soldiers died during a confrontation in a building, while five others were seriously wounded, all from the elite commando unit Egoz, which specializes in battles in complex terrains, fieldcraft, camouflage, and miniature warfare.

In the second battle, two soldiers from the Golani infantry brigade were killed by mortar bombs, and another was severely injured.

The IDF also reported that a Golani combat medic was seriously injured in a third confrontation.

Among the eight fatalities was 22-year-old Eitan Oster, a squad commander of Egoz, as confirmed by the IDF earlier in the day.

The killings were reported as the Israeli forces managed to advance into Lebanon on the northern front against the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah.

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BEIRUT — A Lebanese soldier was killed and another wounded on Wednesday in Israeli airstrikes on two towns in eastern and southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military sources.

The military sources, who spoke anonymously, said the soldier was killed when an Israeli warplane carried out a strike on a house in Machghara town, located west of Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.

They added that another soldier was wounded when an Israeli drone fired an air-to-ground missile at a Lebanese army unit that was working to secure traffic on the Marjeyoun-Hasbaya road at the entrance to the southeastern village of Kawkaba.

The sources noted that traffic on the road had been disrupted after an Israeli missile strike that created a large hole in the middle of the road.

The attacks took place amid the escalating confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel since mid-September. On Wednesday, Hezbollah announced its continued attacks on Israeli targets, claiming it had struck an artillery position in northern Israel.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army managed to infiltrate Maroun al-Ras and Adaisseh villages in southern Lebanon in a dangerous escalation with Hezbollah.

Confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel have sharply escalated after the latter announced a shift in military focus from the Gaza Strip to the northern front in mid-September.

This intensified the clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, which began on Oct. 8, 2023, when Hezbollah started launching rockets at Israel in solidarity with Hamas in Gaza, triggering retaliatory Israeli artillery fire and airstrikes in southeastern Lebanon.

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KUALA LUMPUR — Tiga buah kereta mengalami kerosakan selepas dihempap sebatang pokok ekoran hujan lebat di Jalan Besar, Wangsa Maju, di sini, hari ini.

Pusat Gerakan Operasi Kuala Lumpur (PGOKL) dalam kenyataan berkata, pihaknya menerima panggilan kecemasan berhubung insiden itu sekitar pukul 6.34 petang tadi.

Katanya, sembilan anggota serta dua jentera dari Balai Bomba dan Penyelamat (BBP) Wangsa Maju digerakkan ke lokasi kejadian.

“Setibanya pasukan penyelamat di lokasi kejadian, didapati terdapat sebatang pokok telah tumbang dan menghempap tiga buah kenderaan.

“Anggota membuat tindakan dengan menggunakan gergaji rantai untuk memotong pokok yang menghempap kenderaan dan menghalang lalu lintas di lokasi kejadian,” katanya dalam satu kenyataan hari ini.

Katanya, pihak Dewan Bandaraya Kuala Lumpur (DBKL) juga turut membantu semasa menangani insiden berkenaan.

“Tiada mangsa yang terbabit dengan insiden ini dan operasi tamat pada pukul 7.39 malam,” katanya.

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