INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
The potential successor to slain Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has been out of contact since Friday, a Lebanese security source
said on Saturday, after an Israeli airstrike that is reported to have targeted him.In its campaign against the Iran-backed Lebanese group,
Hashem Safieddine in an underground bunker.The Lebanese security source and two other Lebanese security sources said that ongoing Israeli
attack.Hezbollah has made no comment so far on Safieddine since the attack.Israeli Lieutenant Colonel Nadav Shoshani said on Friday the
expanded its conflict in Lebanon on Saturday with its first strike in the northern city of Tripoli, a Lebanese security official said, after
more bombs hit Beirut suburbs and Israeli troops launched raids in the south.Israel has begun an intense bombing campaign in Lebanon and
sent troops across the border in recent weeks after nearly a year of exchanging fire with Hezbollah
against Palestinian group Hamas.Israel says it aims to allow the safe return of tens of thousands of citizens to their homes in northern
including Secretary General Nasrallah in an air attack on Sept
27.The Israeli assault has also killed hundreds of ordinary Lebanese, including rescue workers, Lebanese officials say, and forced 1.2
on a Palestinian refugee camp in Tripoli killed a member of Hamas, his wife and two children
Media affiliated with the Palestinian group also said the strike killed a leader of its armed wing.The Israeli military did not immediately
comment on the strike on Tripoli, a Sunni Muslim-majority port city that its warplanes also targeted during a 2006 war with Hezbollah.Israel
has meanwhile staged nightly bombardment of Dahiyeh, once a bustling and densely populated area of Beirut and a stronghold for Hezbollah.On
Saturday, smoke billowed over Dahiyeh, large parts of which have been reduced to rubble sending residents fleeing to other parts of Beirut
or of Lebanon.In northern Israel, air raid sirens sent people running for their shelters amid rocket fire from Lebanon.ISRAEL WEIGHS OPTIONS
2.3 million.Iran, which backs both Hezbollah and Hamas, and which has lost key commanders of its elite Revolutionary Guards Corps to Israeli
air strikes in Syria this year, launched a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Tuesday
President Joe Biden on Friday urged Israel to consider alternatives to striking Iranian oil fields, adding that he thinks Israel has not yet
concluded how to respond to Iran.Israeli news website Ynet reported that the top U.S
general for the Middle East, Army General Michael Kurilla, is headed for Israel in the coming day
officials were not immediately reachable for comment.Source: Reuters--Agencies
