{"id":109311,"date":"2024-10-02T00:30:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-01T17:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109311"},"modified":"2024-10-02T00:30:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-01T17:30:45","slug":"iran-launches-over-100-ballistic-missiles-at-israel-live-updates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=109311","title":{"rendered":"Iran Launches Over 100 Ballistic Missiles at Israel: Live Updates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Even for the Lebanese, it can be hard to say where it all went wrong for their tiny, beautiful country.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly it was long before early Tuesday morning, when Israeli troops marched into southern Lebanon. Long before Friday, when Israel assassinated Hassan Nasrallah, the revered and reviled Hezbollah leader who had a chokehold on the country\u2019s politics and security for years.<span class=\"css-8l6xbc evw5hdy0\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">And long before last October, when Hezbollah and Israel began <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/23\/world\/middleeast\/israel-hezbollah-war-timeline-lebanon.html\" title=\"\">trading airstrikes<\/a> and rocket fire across the border, bringing the war in Gaza to Lebanon\u2019s green, fertile south.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Hezbollah, the Iran-funded <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/26\/world\/middleeast\/hezbollah-israel-war-explainer.html\" title=\"\">Shiite Muslim militia<\/a> that doubles as a major political party and social services organization, does not run Lebanon in any official sense. But under Mr. Nasrallah, it sometimes seemed as if it was the only force that mattered: a state within a state with its own military, schools, hospitals and youth programs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Now his death has come as the latest thunderbolt to jolt Lebanon, a Mediterranean country of 5.4 million people already stuck in a dejected state of nonstop emergency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Many say Lebanon\u2019s current anguish began in 2019, when the economy <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/08\/04\/world\/lebanon-crisis.html\" title=\"\">imploded<\/a> and took the country\u2019s once-robust middle class with it. Mass anti-government <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/10\/23\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-protests.html\" title=\"\">protests<\/a> that fall did nothing to dislodge the country\u2019s widely loathed political class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Others might mention 2020, the year the coronavirus further crippled the economy, and the year an enormous <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/09\/09\/world\/middleeast\/beirut-explosion.html\" title=\"\">explosion<\/a> at Beirut\u2019s port shattered entire neighborhoods of the capital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">A good case could be made for going all the way back to the 15-year civil war that ended in 1990, which birthed the movement that became Hezbollah, and from which the country never really recovered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">All these crises and more have left Lebanon in no shape to withstand a sharply escalating conflict with Israel, like a 10-car pileup caught in the path of a tornado.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">That much became obvious over the last week, when at least 118,000 Lebanese <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/25\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-strikes-refugees-displaced.html\" title=\"\">fled<\/a> Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon\u2019s south, in its agricultural Bekaa Valley and in the Hezbollah-dominated Dahiya suburbs of Beirut.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Families sought refuge on Sunday at Ramlet Al Baida beach in Beirut after fleeing Israeli airstrikes on the city\u2019s southern suburbs.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The official response was \u201cchaos,\u201d said Mark Daou, an independent member of Parliament, as the TV in his office played news footage of the hourslong traffic jams on the roads from the south last week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">He was not surprised the government seemed stupefied. \u201cThey have no money and they have no control over what\u2019s happening on the ground,\u201d he said, noting that Lebanon\u2019s nominal military has little actual power. \u201cThey\u2019re hostage to whatever Hezbollah decides unilaterally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">While the government designated hundreds of public buildings as shelters for the displaced, it provided no mattresses, bedding, food or other supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Information about shelters spread haphazardly through word of mouth and on WhatsApp, with little official guidance. Shelters filled quickly, leaving hundreds to sleep in public squares, a seaside promenade, a beach and under bridges when they evacuated the Dahiya suburbs after Friday\u2019s huge airstrike on Hezbollah headquarters under the neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">As the longtime head of a group the United States considers a terrorist organization, but one that drove Israel out of southern Lebanon when the state could not, Mr. Nasrallah was a hero to some Lebanese and anathema to others. But his power was such that few can predict what the country will look like without him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Mired in political paralysis \u2014 partly, Mr. Daou said, because Hezbollah has moved to block attempts at resolution \u2014 Lebanon has gone nearly two years without a president and has only a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/middle-east\/what-happens-now-that-lebanon-is-without-president-2022-11-01\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">caretaker government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The state provides barely any electricity, leaving everyone dependent on generators, if they can afford the fees. Many generators can power only one appliance at a time, so residents unplug refrigerators or forgo air-conditioning just to do laundry.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Hezbollah supporters paying tribute to the victims of an Israeli airstrike, in Dahiya, near Beirut, last week.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Diego Ibarra Sanchez for The New York Times<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/11\/15\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-protests-economy.html\" title=\"\">financial crisis<\/a> has left many people who could once afford overseas vacations, ski weekends in Lebanon\u2019s mountains and sun-dazzled afternoons at its beach clubs nearly <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/10\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-economic-crisis.html\" title=\"\">destitute<\/a>, their savings trapped in banks that deny them access to their own money. Desperate, a few account holders have resorted to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/09\/16\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-banks-economic-crisis.html\" title=\"\">holding up<\/a> bank branches to demand their own funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Thousands of doctors, nurses and medical technicians, as well as many young professionals, entrepreneurs, designers and artists, have <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/27\/world\/middleeast\/beirut-explosion-volunteers.html\" title=\"\">left the country<\/a>. Teachers routinely go unpaid; many of their students cannot afford textbooks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe country in many respects cannot withstand a long-term war,\u201d said Sleiman Haroun, the president of a national association of Lebanese hospitals. Though the health care system had <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/09\/21\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-doctors-hezbollah-airstrike-medical.html\" title=\"\">performed well<\/a> so far, he said, he worried that there were not enough medical professionals left to cope with a sustained Israeli onslaught.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">But, he added, \u201cThis is our fate. We have to face it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Enraged at their leaders, the Lebanese long ago stopped expecting anything from them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Into the void left by the state have stepped private donors, individual volunteers, citizen aid groups, entrepreneurs and social-services organizations affiliated with political parties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In wealthier pockets of the country, their efforts, along with the chic cocktail bars, nightclubs, manicured beach clubs and sophisticated restaurants, mask Lebanon\u2019s collapse so effectively that first-time visitors are frequently taken aback by its high-functioning facade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Residents and business owners have installed solar panels on rooftops across Lebanon to compensate for the lack of government-supplied electricity. Private donors pay for street lighting in some Beirut neighborhoods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Over the last week, as shelters overflowed with displaced residents, a patchwork of volunteers and local aid groups rushed to fill the gap.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Many people who fled southern Lebanon took refuge at a school turned into a temporary shelter in Beirut. <\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Anwar Amro\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Just inside the gate of a private school in central Beirut last week sat Sarah Khalil, a board member who was helping to manage wave upon wave of donations \u2014 food, water, a refrigerator \u2014 arriving in the courtyard. The school\u2019s board had opened its 50 classrooms to displaced families, and faculty, neighbors, students\u2019 family members and other school affiliates were showing up with provisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is the only way,\u201d she said. \u201cWe can\u2019t rely on the government, but we surely can rely on those around us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">At Dr. Sobhy Salah Middle School in the Bir Hassan neighborhood, the Ministry of Education unlocked the doors for displaced families. But it was the scouting organization affiliated with the Amal Movement, a major Shiite Muslim political party, that was running the shelter and gathering donated supplies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Asked why the government had not provided more, Mohamed Jaber, a volunteer, let out a laugh.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s no government to begin with,\u201d he said. \u201cThe government will only wake up way after the war has ended.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Families at the shelter said they had come there after hearing about it from relatives or through word of mouth. But many shelters filled quickly, including this one, leaving the latest wave of displaced arrivals with few options if they had no family or friends to take them in.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Volunteers working in a community kitchen in Beirut to prepare meals for people who fled southern Lebanon. In the near absence of any government response, volunteer groups and others have rushed to fill the void.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Anwar Amro\/Agence France-Presse \u2014 Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">That was how several Syrian families ended up under a bridge in Beirut on Wednesday afternoon, beaten-up minibuses and gleaming SUVs honking around them. Their presence was a reminder of yet another crisis that has strained Lebanon: The country plays <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/08\/world\/middleeast\/lebanon-syria-refugees-arsal.html\" title=\"\">reluctant host<\/a> to an estimated 750,000 refugees from next-door Syria, driven to Lebanon by Syria\u2019s brutal civil war, its economic crisis and a powerful earthquake last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Bushra Ali, 24, stood under the bridge with her 4-year-old son, 2-year-old daughter and a black plastic bag of necessities, all they had been able to grab on Wednesday morning as they evacuated Dahiya, the Hezbollah-dominated suburb of Beirut that Israel has struck repeatedly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Originally from Aleppo, Syria, her family came to Lebanon last year, after the <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/08\/27\/world\/middleeast\/syria-earthquake-rebuilding.html\" title=\"\">earthquake in northern Syria<\/a> destroyed their home. But the move had not been a success.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Her husband was laid off from a Lebanese shoe factory three months ago. Their rent was rising every month. Now bombs were falling and schools were closed, so they had decided to go back to Aleppo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s a really horrible feeling,\u201d she said, her face crumpling as she stroked her son\u2019s hair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">The Lebanese government appeared similarly missing-in-action after the port explosion on Aug. 4, 2020, that damaged more than half of Beirut and killed 218 people \u2014 a catastrophe that later investigations by media outlets and rights groups <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hrw.org\/report\/2021\/08\/03\/they-killed-us-inside\/investigation-august-4-beirut-blast\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">found<\/a> was rooted in the government\u2019s neglect, corruption and mismanagement. In the days after, while soldiers sat smoking on street corners, it was <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/08\/27\/world\/middleeast\/beirut-explosion-volunteers.html\" title=\"\">regular citizens<\/a> who showed up to clean up the debris.<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"imageblock-wrapper\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-large css-hxpw2c e1g7ppur0\" aria-label=\"media\" role=\"group\"><figcaption data-testid=\"photoviewer-children-caption\" class=\"css-1g9ic6e ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-jevhma e13ogyst0\">Displaced people sitting this week at a makeshift campsite in Beirut where they slept the night before.<\/span><span class=\"css-1u46b97 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit&#8230;<\/span><span><span aria-hidden=\"false\">Daniel Carde\/Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">In the blast\u2019s wake, a small, scruffy group of friends began distributing donations and free meals from an abandoned gas station in east Beirut. Four years later, now a full-fledged community kitchen and local aid group, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/nationstation__\/?hl=en\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Nation Station<\/a> has begun delivering around 1,600 meals and sandwiches a day to shelters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe country, it\u2019s already down. Like, I can\u2019t believe we\u2019re doing this again,\u201d said Josephine Abou Abdo, a co-founder, who manages the crew of young staff and volunteers. \u201cIt\u2019s back to Aug. 4 vibes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">Four years ago, they were motivated by their own government\u2019s inaction. Now, she said, it was Israel\u2019s assault that was drawing Lebanese together in solidarity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-h61jh5 evys1bk0\">With Israel attacking them, she said, \u201cthis is the least that we can do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"live-blog-post-content css-1smqmx3 etfikam0\">Jacob Roubai contributed reporting from Beirut.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/live\/2024\/10\/01\/world\/israel-lebanon-hezbollah\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even for the Lebanese, it can be hard to say where it all went wrong for their tiny, beautiful country. 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