Israeli retaliation against Iran will be 'lethal, precise and surprising,' says defence minister, as Israeli air strike hits defence centre
Rescue workers search for victims on a hotel-turned-shelter for displaced people hit by an Israeli air strike in south Lebanon.
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Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has warned an Israeli strike on Iran will be "lethal, precise and above all surprising".
An Israeli air strike hit a Lebanese Civil Defense center in the town of Dardghaya in southern Lebanon, killing five.
Lebanon's crisis response unit says it recorded 70 air strikes and incidents of shelling in the past day, mostly in southern Lebanon.
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant has warned an Israeli strike on Iran in response to its recent missile attack would be "lethal" and "surprising", as a separate Israeli air strike hit a Lebanese Civil Defense centre in southern Lebanon, killing five members stationed there.
"Our attack will be lethal, precise and above all surprising," Mr Gallant said during a speech to Israeli troops on Wednesday, local time.
"They will not understand what happened and how it happened".
Iran fired dozens of missiles at Israel last week in an escalation of the conflict between the two countries, and Israel has vowed to respond to the attack.
On the same day, an Israeli air strike hit a Lebanese Civil Defense center in the town of Dardghaya in southern Lebanon.
The strike killed five members stationed there, Civil Defense spokesperson Elie Khairallah told The Associated Press.
The Lebanese Health Ministry also confirmed the news in a statement, saying Israel has "renewed its targeting of rescue and ambulance crews tonight, disregarding international laws, norms and humanitarian conventions".
There was no immediate statement from the Israeli military.
Among the victims was Abdullah Al-Moussawi, head of the Tyre regional civil defence centre, Mr Khairallah said.
The health ministry said teams continued to search for survivors in the rubble.
Rescuers and people inspect the site of an Israeli strike that hit a building in Wardaniyeh, Lebanon.
Before Wednesday's strike, six civil defence members had been killed since last October, Mr Khairallah said.
As of last Thursday, the health ministry reported that more than 100 paramedics had been killed by Israeli air strikes since last October and 225 have been wounded.
Just last week, Mr Al-Moussawi spoke with the Associated Press, saying the Israeli air strikes had made his team increasingly nervous, but that they were hopeful that the international protection guaranteed to medics would extend to them as well.
"We put international protection (tag) on our vehicles along with the (national) Civil Defense flag and we wear the yellow vests," he said.
Centres in Lebanon shelter hundreds of thousands
Lebanon's crisis response unit announced on Wednesday that 22 people were killed and 80 wounded in the past 24 hours, raising the total toll over the past year of conflict between Israel and Hezbollah to 2,141 killed and 10,099 wounded, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
The report also recorded 70 air strikes and incidents of shelling in the past day, mostly concentrated in southern Lebanon, the southern suburbs of Beirut and the Bekaa Valley.
Some 1,000 centres — including educational complexes, vocational institutes, universities and other institutions — are sheltering 185,400 people displaced by the Israeli offensive in Lebanon, the report said.
Half of those displaced are housed in facilities concentrated in Beirut and Mount Lebanon.
Among these shelters, 807 have reached full capacity.
Children in a school turned into a temporary shelter for displaced people in Beirut.
Overall, the total number of displaced individuals in Lebanon stands at an estimated 1.2 million.
Additionally, about 15,000 displaced individuals have received medical treatment and medication.
Israeli soldiers raise Israeli flag in southern Lebanon
Video verified by The Associated Press shows what appears to be a group of Israeli soldiers raising an Israeli flag in a village in southern Lebanon.
In the video, which appears to have been filmed in Maroun el-Ras, three soldiers are seen hoisting a flag atop a pile of debris. A soldier off camera speaks in Hebrew and refers to the nearby Israeli village of Avivim. It was not clear when the video was recorded.
Israeli troops have been operating in Maroun el-Ras, where they have taken up positions inside a public garden on the edge of the village.
The video follows other similar acts that took place throughout Israel's ground offensive in Gaza.
The Israeli military had no immediate comment.
Biden and Netanyahu hold first phone call in seven weeks
Biden and Netanyahu have broken nearly two months of silence with a phone call as Israel expands its ground incursion into Lebanon and considers how to respond to Iran.
Vice-President Kamala Harris also joined the 30-minute call, according to the White House.
Benjamin Netanyahu has made it clear his country will respond to Iran's attack.
"It was direct, it was productive," said White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, who added that the leaders discussed a long list of issues on the call, including Israel's deliberations on how it will respond to Iran.
Mr Netanyahu's office, meantime, confirmed that the prime minister had recently spoken with former president Donald Trump.
The Biden-Netanyahu conversation comes at a moment of Mr Biden's growing frustration with the prime minister and as the growing conflict in the Middle East is adding a layer of complexity to the American election next month.
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