The Times of Israel is liveblogging Sunday’s events as they happen.
Monitor claims 12 Iran-backed fighters killed in Deir Ezzor strikes
A Syria-based war monitor claims 12 pro-Iran fighters were killed in airstrikes of unknown origin in eastern Syria, and a large number of people were wounded.
“Twelve pro-Iranian fighters were killed in air strikes of unknown origin targeting their positions in the city of Deir Ezzor and to the east of the city, as well as the Boukamal region, near the border with Iraq,” the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says.
Five of the strikes targeted military positions near Deir Ezzor airport, it adds.
The Observatory, which says it relies on a network of sources on the ground, has been accused of inflating casualty numbers in the past.
The origin of the strikes are unknown, with widespread speculation they were carried out by Israel or the US.
Iran asks Security Council for urgent meeting over Nasrallah killing
Iran is calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council to protest the killing of Hezbollah terror group chief Hassan Nasrallah in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon, according to a letter to the Council.
In the letter, Iran’s UN envoy Amir Saeid Iravani calls on the Council to “take immediate and decisive action to stop Israel’s ongoing aggression and prevent… from dragging the region into full-scale war.”
“Using US-supplied thousand-pound bunker busters,” he writes, Israel killed Nasrallah and Iranian Gen, Abbas Nilforushan, among others.
He warns Israel not to attack any of its diplomatic or consular premises, or its representatives.
“Iran will not hesitate to exercise its inherent rights under international law to take every measure in defense of its vital national and security interests,” Iravani writes.
Airstrikes reported on Syria-Iraq border
Initial reports claim an airstrike attack has just taken place near Albukamal on the Iraqi-Syrian border, along with other areas in Styria’s northeastern Deir Ezzor region.
Syria’s Sham FM says locals in Deir Ezzor reported hearing loud explosions in the desert east of the Euphrates River city.
The reports cannot be verified.
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— Tammuz Intel (@Tammuz_Intel) September 28, 2024
Albukamal is thought to be on a major smuggling route used by Shiite groups, including Hezbollah, to transport weapons from Iran. Attacks in the past there have been attributed to the US military.
Israel’s army said earlier it was concentrating its efforts in Lebanon on imposing a blockade aimed at keeping Iranian weapons from entering the country.
Jordan says rocket fired from Lebanon lands outside Amman
The Jordanian army says a grad rocket from southern Lebanon fell this evening in an uninhabited desert area near Muwaqqar, a town southeast of Amman.
No people were hurt in the attack and there was no damage, it says in a statement.
Muwaqqar is about 160 kilometers (100 miles) from the Lebanese border.
Earlier, the Israel Defense Forces said a missile fired from Lebanon landed in the West Bank near Jerusalem, marking what appeared to be the deepest rocket fire carried out by Hezbollah since intense fighting began earlier this month.