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Iran Plans October 7-Style Multi-Front Attack With Hezbollah, Hamas, Houthis Against Israel
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Lebanese President Aoun appeals to the US and international community to stop Israeli attacks. Israeli strikes kill at least seven in Nabatieh amid truce framework, targeting Hezbollah sites.
Multi-front Iran plan
Firstpost, citing a report by The Jerusalem Post and intelligence sources, said Iran is reportedly preparing a coordinated, multi-front offensive against Israel that could resemble the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. The report described Tehran seeking to coordinate attacks by Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen, and pro-Iranian militias in Iraq as part of a broader campaign against Israel. Firstpost said the plan is aimed at enabling multiple Iran-aligned groups to open fronts against Israel simultaneously, and it tied the reported similarities to October 7 to documents allegedly seized by Israeli forces in Gaza after the assault.
The same Firstpost account said one planning document called for efforts to “connect and prepare the external fronts”, referring to Lebanon, Syria and the Sinai Peninsula, while US and Israeli assessments cited in the report said the broader coordination did not materialise before October 7. Firstpost also said Hamas officials on Saturday reported that senior commander Ezzedine Al-Haddad was killed in an Israeli strike in Gaza City a day earlier.
Lebanon strikes despite truce
In Lebanon, AFP reports as carried by Dawn said Lebanese President Joseph Aoun urged Washington and the international community to help stop Israeli attacks, which killed at least seven people today despite a truce and a framework deal aimed at halting the violence. Dawn quoted Aoun describing the strikes as “a dangerous escalation… reaching Lebanese state institutions” and health facilities, and it said Lebanon’s health ministry reported two men killed in a town on the edge of the zone occupied by Israeli troops and two women killed in Arab Salim. Arab News added that Israel said it had targeted Hezbollah operatives and sites in response to a drone attack a day earlier by the Iran-backed group on its troops near a strategic south Lebanon ridge, and it reported that Israel had captured the Nabatieh-area Ali Al-Taher ridge.
Arab News said Aoun called on the international community—particularly the United States, which has sponsored direct Israel-Lebanon talks and a framework agreement between the sides in June—“to urgently act to stop these violations”. Arab News also reported that Lebanon’s health ministry said a strike on a parking lot near Nabatieh killed three more people, after it described earlier deaths and wounded in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa, Arab Salim, Nabatieh, and Kfar Rumman.
Security zone and hospital
Arab News said one of the strikes in Nabatieh Al-Fawqa “totally destroyed” the out-of-service Ghandour hospital, and it described the ministry’s characterization as “another grave violation of international humanitarian law.” The same Arab News account said Israel’s army described targeting Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure, including “weapons storage facilities and terrorist structures,” and it added that it had targeted “a Hezbollah command center that had been established inside a building previously used as a hospital.” Arab News reported that Israel issued its first evacuation notice in Lebanon in a month, warning residents near a building it called a Hezbollah facility in Arab Salim to leave ahead of an attack on the site.
It said Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that after the Israeli warning for Arab Salim, “enemy warplanes launched a strike on another house, destroying it” and killing the two women. Finally, Arab News said Israeli forces are operating inside a self-declared “security zone” around 10 kilometers (six miles) deep inside Lebanon along the border, while it noted that violence has decreased since a US-Iran memorandum of understanding on the broader regional conflict in June and the Israel-Lebanon framework agreement later that month.