2023-11-02 21:45:37
November 2, 2023
Baghdad/Al-Masala Al-Hadath: On the eve of an expected speech by its Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced on Thursday that it had bombed 19 Israeli sites “simultaneously,” and Israel announced a response with “large-scale” bombing in southern Lebanon.
At the time of announcing these simultaneous attacks, tension was at its highest on Thursday evening at the border between Israel and Lebanon, which for more than three weeks has been the scene of daily exchanges of fire between the Israeli army on the one hand and the Lebanese Hezbollah and its allies on the other.
In the afternoon, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military arm of Hamas in Lebanon, announced in a message on the Telegram application that it had fired 12 rockets towards the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, “in response to the occupation’s massacres against our people in Gaza.” The firing of these missiles led to the injury of two people in Kiryat Shmona, according to Israeli emergency services.
For its part, the pro-Iranian Hezbollah said in a statement, “The Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance attacked simultaneously at 15:30 (13:30 GMT) nineteen Zionist military sites and points with guided missiles, artillery shells, and direct weapons.”
The party said that these attacks came in conjunction with an unprecedented attack on an Israeli barracks using “two drones loaded with a large amount of explosives” in the disputed Shebaa Farms border area, as announced earlier in another statement.
The Israeli army announced Thursday in a statement that it responded to missiles launched from Lebanon by carrying out a “large-scale strike” on Hezbollah military targets.
He said that Israeli army warplanes and helicopters targeted the party and attacked its “infrastructure, headquarters, and leadership facilities.”
This escalation comes as Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah is expected to deliver a speech on Friday, the first since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, which the Lebanese and those concerned with the conflict are awaiting, to clarify whether it will resolve the issue of his party’s involvement in the fighting.
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