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Israel reveals eight of its troops have now been killed inside Lebanon amid brutal clashes as Hezbollah taunts IDF warning 'this is just the first round'

Israeli officials earlier confirmed the death of Captain Eitan Itzhak Oster, 22, a member of the Egoz commando unit who died when Hezbollah militants sprang a surprise assault near the village of Adaisseh. But seven more soldiers were reported dead during a briefing by an IDF spokesperson later this afternoon. Captains Harel Etinger and Itai Ariel Giat, both 23, lost their lives alongside sergeants Noam Barzilay, Or Mantzur, Nazar Itkin, Almken Terefe and Ido Broyer, who were aged between 21 and 22. News of the losses came as Israel's military released video footage showing its special forces carrying out the invasion for the first time.

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Iran's Supreme Leader Khamenei blames the West for conflict in Middle East and vows to 'rid the region of enemies' evil' after rocket barrage into Israel while jubilant crowds celebrate on the streets of Tehran

Yesterday's attack, unprecedented in scope and scale, came without warning, with terrifying footage showing missiles streaking through the night sky and descending on targets across Israel

Trump warns of 'global catastrophe' after Iran's missile attack on Israel - having likened the sworn enemies to 'two kids fighting in the schoolyard'

The remarks came after Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles at Israeli territory overnight with Israeli military now preparing a 'significant retaliation' to the shocking attack.

Two explosions rock 'immediate vicinity' of Denmark's Israeli embassy as global tensions soar after Iran's rocket attack

Danish authorities said Wednesday they were investigating the double blasts that went off around the intersection of Lundevangsvej and Strandagervej in the capital, Copenhagen.

EXCLUSIVEHero Israeli reveals how he chased Tel Aviv massacre gunmen in his sandals before shooting one of them dead after seeing rampage unfold while eating schnitzel - as video shows him opening fire

Lev Kraitman was eating schnitzel in the old port area of Tel Aviv when he heard gunshots. Without hesitating, he dashed to the light railway station where they were on a rampage knifing and shooting anyone they came across. Lev, who saved 20 people from the Nova massacre last year before serving in Gaza , pulled out his weapon and confronted the attackers - shooting one of them dead. Incredible footage shows him running after them in his flip flops as he fires forcing the other to flee.

Horrifying moment woman, 24, trips over a wall and plunges to her death while singing during night out as her friend filmed

This is the harrowing moment a Russian woman captured the moment her friend fell to her death while she was filming her singing as they celebrated a night out. Arina Glazunova's, 24, last moments were caught in a hard-to-watch clip filmed in Tbilisi, Georgia last Friday, as she sang and danced with her pal. Footage shows Arina, from Moscow, striding across a pavement singing along to the Russian boyband Hunger Boys's hit 'For The Last Time' on September 27

Palestinian father is 'only fatality' in Iran's missile blitz on Israel after being 'crushed by falling shrapnel while walking down street' in West Bank

The horror clip released by Israel, saw the man who has been identified by Palestinian meida as labourer Sameh al-Asl, 37, being instantly killed by the massive Iranian rocket part.

US helped shoot down Iranian ballistic missiles as Biden reiterates America is 'fully supportive' of Israel

Iran fired around 200 ballistic missiles on Tuesday evening in revenge for Israel's campaign against Hezbollah in Lebanon

Tim Walz spars with JD Vance on abortion, climate change and immigration and admits 'I'm a knucklehead' as pair go toe to toe during first and only CBS VP debate

The candidates tangled over issues like abortion, immigration, gun violence, climate change, the state of the economy and the Middle East.

'Living Nostradamus' on World War III: Latest terrifying prediction after Microsoft global outage prediction

Brazilian psychic Athos Salomé, 36, who predicted the Microsoft global outage, has said that World War III could be on the horizon due to the rise of electromagnet pulse (EMP) technology.

Horror as more than 20 children are feared dead in school bus inferno after coach explodes while returning from field trip in Thailand

The bus was carrying kids from the Wat Khao Phraya Sangkharam School in Uthai Thani province when it caught fire on a road on the outskirts of Bangkok at around 12.38pm local time.

Ryanair plane's tyres EXPLODE during landing in Italy as Brit passenger describes chaos

Onlookers claim another pilot said it happened due to a 'bad landing' at Milan Bergamo Airport which also damaged the runway as well as the tyres.

Monster of Avignon 'accomplice', 61, was found to have hundreds of child sex and animal abuse images after his arrest over Gisele Pelicot rape, court hears

Thierry Postat is among 51 men charged with the aggravated rape of a woman who was drugged by her husband and then abused by men that he invited to their home in a picturesque village in Provence. Dominique Pelicot has admitted his part in the mass rape of his wife Gisele who he drugged by putting powerful sedatives in her evening meal and rose wine to render her unconscious for the abuse that followed. Postat and most of the other defendants have denied raping Madame Pelicot, claiming they believed they were taking part in a sex game in which she pretended to be asleep. However, this morning it emerged that Postat, 61, a heating engineer, had more than 650 child pornography photos and 419 videos of child sex and bestiality on his lap-top computer.