2024-09-23 17:46:40
Attacks on Lebanon hit Hezbollah’s “combat infrastructure”
Israel’s army chief said on Monday that airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon hit the fighting infrastructure that the Islamist group Hezbollah has been building for two decades.
“We are specifically targeting the combat infrastructure that Hezbollah has been building for twenty years,” said military chief of staff General Herzi Halevi, adding that the army was “preparing for the next stages” of the operation, according to the discharge of an army.
One of Hezbollah’s leaders was targeted by attacks in the Beirut suburbs
Hezbollah’s commander for Lebanon’s southern front with Israel was targeted by an Israeli attack in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Monday evening, a source close to the pro-Iranian organization told AFP.
Ali Karaké, targeted by the raid, is Hezbollah’s military number three, added the source without being able to specify his fate. The second number, Ibrahim Aqil, was killed in an Israeli attack in the southern countryside on Friday and the first number, Fouad Chokr, in a similar attack on this Hezbollah stronghold on July 30.
The Israeli Air Force launched a new wave of attacks in eastern Lebanon (Lebanon’s official representative)
The Israeli Air Force carried out a wave of airstrikes on the Bekaa plain in eastern Lebanon early Monday evening, after intensifying in the south of the country, the country’s information agency said.
“The enemy attacks have targeted the heights of the Anti-Lebanon region,” which overlooks the Bekaa and many villages in this region, where the pro-Iranian Hezbollah has established itself, Ani said. The Israeli army said it had attacked ” around 800 targets” of Hezbollah in Lebanon on Monday.
The death toll from the Israeli attack rose to 274 in Lebanon
The intensive Israeli bombing of Lebanon has also led to the displacement of thousands of families, announced Lebanese Health Minister Firass Abiad.
At a press conference, the minister added that nearly 5,000 people had been injured “in less than a week” in Israeli attacks, including explosions of pro-Iranian Hezbollah vehicles.
In response to the Israeli attacks, Hezbollah said it attacked two sites in Israel
Hezbollah announced on Monday that it had launched dozens of rockets at two new military bases in northern Israel, in response to intensified Israeli airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon.
In two separate statements, the powerful pro-Iranian establishment specified that it had targeted the army’s “main depots” for the northern region of Israel, west of Tiberias, and some military centers, ” in response to attacks by Israel’s enemy.
Netanyahu said he “anticipated” threats by hitting Hezbollah
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that Israel is changing the “balance of power” in the north of the country, following an attack on Hezbollah in neighboring southern Lebanon.
“Israel’s strategy is not to wait for threats but to anticipate them, which we are doing,” Mr. Netanyahu said during a security meeting in Tel Aviv, according to a statement from his office.
Unsurprisingly, Palestinian Hamas described the attacks on Hezbollah as “brutal punishment”.
The Palestinian Islamist group on Monday condemned the deadly Israeli attacks targeting its ally Hezbollah in Lebanon, calling them “barbaric aggression”.
“This massive barbaric violence is a war crime,” he said in a statement, emphasizing “his solidarity (…) with (his) brothers in Hezbollah and the Lebanese people.”
Iran warns Israel of ‘dangerous consequences’ of its attacks in Lebanon
Iran warned Israel on Monday against the “dangerous consequences” of its attacks in Lebanon, where Hezbollah is being targeted. Spokesman for the Foreign Ministry Nasser Kanani “strongly condemns the massive airstrikes” carried out by Israel in southern Lebanon and “warned of the dangerous consequences of the new adventure of the Zionists,”
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Hundreds of Lebanese flee Israeli bombings in the south
Hundreds of people fled Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon on Monday, a local official said, as Israel said it was stepping up its attacks against Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
“Hundreds of people have arrived” at the school in the school of displaced people in the city of Tire, Bilal Kachmar, an agent with the disaster management team, with others “camping outside”. Hundreds of cars carrying families are stuck on the roads in Saida, a large southern city, according to AFP photographers.
Israel is preparing new “massive” bombs in Lebanon
The Israeli army said on Monday that it was preparing to carry out new “massive” airstrikes on the Bekaa plain and had asked residents of this area of eastern Lebanon to leave the weapons stores of the Islamist movement Hezbollah. .
“We are preparing for a large-scale, targeted attack in the Bekaa Valley,” army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagari told a news conference, adding that residents had to “stay away” from Hezbollah sites “for their safety”.
At least 182 dead and more than 700 injured, the heaviest new in southern Lebanon
This Monday, the Israeli army has carried out new attacks in Lebanon targeting Hezbollah targets and installations. The attacks focused on the south, especially the coastal city of Tyre, and the east of the country. The price has continued to rise since Monday afternoon. The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced around 2:45 pm that 182 people were killed and more than 700 were injured. This is the heaviest death toll after a year of violence on this side of the border.
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Despite many calls for restraint from the international community, the military escalation has continued to worsen in recent days between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, raising fears of a wider war.
A strong Lebanese group supported by Iran has been exchanging fire for almost a year with the army along the Israeli-Lebanese border, supported by the Palestinian Hamas, in a war against Israel in the Gaza Strip from October 7 2023 .
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