Morning Briefing: Oct. 6, 2024

​​​​​​​By Alperen Aktas

ISTANBUL (AA) - Here is a rundown of all the news you need to start your Sunday, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu again vowing to respond to an Iranian missile attack; Hezbollah claiming rocket strikes on an Israeli military industry company in northern Israel and UNICEF delivering 1.4 million cholera vaccines to Sudan.

TOP STORIES

• Netanyahu again vows to respond to Iranian missile attack

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu once again vowed to respond to Iran’s Oct. 1 retaliatory missile attack, claiming his country has the "right" to do it.

In a televised address, Netanyahu reiterated that Israel would respond to the attack.

“Iran has twice fired hundreds of missiles at our territory and our cities -- ballistic missile attacks among the largest in history," he said, referring to the attack earlier this week and one in April.

• Hezbollah claims rocket strikes on Israeli military industry company in northern Israel

Hezbollah said it targeted the Atar military industries company near the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin with a barrage of rockets.

The group said it struck the “Atar military industries company near Sakhnin with a rocket barrage.”

Hezbollah also claimed it fired rockets at the Ma'ale Golani military base in northern Israel.

• UNICEF delivers 1.4M cholera vaccines to Sudan

UNICEF announced the arrival of 1.4 million oral cholera vaccine doses at a port in eastern Sudan.

The shipment aims to protect children from a cholera outbreak that has affected 10 of the country’s 18 states since July, resulting in more than 18,000 cases and killing 550, the UN agency said in a statement.

The new vaccines supplement 404,000 doses delivered last month, supporting ongoing immunization campaigns targeting 1.81 million people in the most affected areas of the war-torn country.

NEWS IN BRIEF

• An unidentified drone reportedly targeted a vehicle in Syria’s western Homs province, killing one person and injuring three others.
• At least three Israelis were injured when 17 rockets were launched from Lebanon toward northern Israel, according to Israeli media reports.
• British Foreign Secretary David Lammy expressed concern about reports of Israeli strikes hitting health care facilities and support personnel in Lebanon.
• Ireland’s foreign minister expressed "deep" concern for the current ramping up of violence in Lebanon, singling out Israel’s violations of a UN resolution.
• Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Israel of using regional conflicts as pretexts to justify its escalating "occupation and expansion."
• Northeastern Nigeria has been hit by a cholera outbreak weeks after a devastating flood struck the area, damaging sanitary facilities and the public water system.
• Israel is moving to expand the Netzarim Corridor, which separates northern Gaza from the south, Israel's Channel 12 reported.
• An Iraqi Turkmen official and five others were injured in a bomb explosion in central Kirkuk in northern Iraq.
• The Ministry of Religious Affairs in the Gaza Strip announced that Israel destroyed 79% of mosques in Gaza in its genocidal war against Palestinians.
• The International Lebanese Medical Association issued an urgent appeal to the World Health Organization (WHO) and the UN to put an end to Israeli forces' "massacre" of Lebanon's health care system.
• Immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela who entered the US through a “parole program” must leave the country when their two-year permits expire if they do not secure another legal way to stay, the Biden administration announced.
• At least nine people were killed in Israeli bombardments of Beirut's southern suburbs and the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon and southern Lebanese towns.
• South Korea evacuated nearly 100 of its nationals from Lebanon, while two Australian planes will land in Beirut to evacuate Australians amid intense Israeli military attacks that spread from the Gaza Strip to southern Lebanon.
• Hezbollah announced more than 20 Israeli elite soldiers were killed or wounded in clashes in a border village in southern Lebanon.
• A magnitude 5.7 earthquake struck New Zealand, according to the GeoNet monitoring system.

SPORTS

• Manchester City seal comeback win over Fulham in Premier League

Manchester City secured a 3-2 comeback win against Fulham in the seventh week of the English Premier League.

Andreas Pereira broke the deadlock for Fulham with a close-range finish in the 26th minute but Mateo Kovacic scored twice in the 32nd and 47th minutes at Etihad Stadium.

Jeremy Doku scored a long-range finish to make it 3-1 in the 82nd minute and Rodrigo Muniz scored in the 88th minute for the London club, but it was not enough to grab a victory.