Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Israeli army exchanged cross-border fire, both sides said on Sunday, September 8. These clashes come a day after the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the deaths of three medics killed by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon. Follow our live coverage.
Rockets and strikes. Hezbollah said early Sunday that it had “Bombarded with a salvo of rockets Kiryat Shmona”a city in northern Israel, “in response to the enemy’s attacks (…) and in particular to the attack” which cost the lives of rescuers on Saturday in the village of Froun. On Sunday morning, the Israeli army announced that it had carried out a series of airstrikes on “Hezbollah military buildings” and intercepted projectiles fired from Lebanon during the night.
Three dead in attack at crossing point between Jordan and occupied West Bank. Israeli emergency services said three people were killed Sunday in a shooting attack at one of the crossings between the Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank and Jordan. Israeli police said in a separate statement that an assailant was “neutralized”. Later in the day, Jordanian Ministry of Interior announced in a statement that the perpetrator of the attack was Jordanian.
For the Biden administration, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza remains possible. Since Israel announced on September 1 that Hamas had killed six hostages, including an American citizen, the Biden administration has stepped up its efforts to secure a truce that it considers imperative. Washington said this week that a ceasefire agreement had been approved. “at 90%”. But every day that passes without it being concluded “risk of derailing a fragile asset” process, acknowledged the head of American diplomacy, Antony Blinken.