2024-07-30 18:16:00
Pfirst return shot. The Israeli army carried out a strike on Tuesday July 30 in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah. The shot was aimed, according to him, at the president “responsible” for the deadly attack on the Golan Heights to which Israel has promised to respond.
“The Israeli army has carried out a targeted attack in Beirut against the commander who is responsible for the murder of the children of Majdal Shams and many other Israeli citizens,” the army said in a statement, referring to the attack, Saturday July 27, in this Druze. city, located in the part of the Syrian Golan Heights captured by Israel, where 12 young people were killed. This rocket attack on the football field was attributed by Israel, as by the United States, to the Lebanese Islamist group, which denied it.
A source close to Hezbollah, for its part, reported an Israeli strike in the southern suburbs of Beirut, targeting the Islamist group’s military chief. Minutes after the strike, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said Hezbollah had “crossed a red line.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured on Monday that his country would provide a “strong response” to the attack. This has revived fears of an extension to Lebanon of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas, an ally of Hezbollah, and of a general conflict in the region.
Daily exchange of light
An Israeli citizen was killed on Tuesday by a rocket falling in northern Israel, according to emergency services, and the army said it had responded to the barrage of rockets by firing into Lebanon. It has already announced that it attacked “around ten terrorist targets” in “seven different areas” of southern Lebanon, and killed a member of the armed group.READ again Israel-Hezbollah: the next war
In response to these attacks, which caused “significant damage” according to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANI), Hezbollah said it had launched several attacks, including two on the Beit Hillel center in north of Israel using Katyusha rockets and explosive drones. Since the beginning of the war in Gaza, which occurred on October 7 through an unexpected attack by Hamas on Israeli soil, exchanges of fire have been almost daily on the northern border of Israel with Lebanon, between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, a strong movement in Lebanon, supported by Iran.
ICRC “deeply concerned”
“Our children are our children […] The State of Israel will not, and cannot, allow this to happen. Our answer will come, and it will be hard,” Netanyahu said on Monday, visiting Majdal Shams.
The city’s Druze leaders said after the visit that they rejected the idea of a response. They emphasized that: “The disaster is very much. But because of Druze doctrine, whose religion is derived from Islam, which “forbids killing and revenge in any way, we reject the release of even shedding blood under the pretext of avenging our children,” they added.
READ again Israel vowed to respond “strongly” after the deadly Golan shootingThe International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Tuesday “it is very concerned by the growing threat of conflict across the region” and “that all organizations and the international community act urgently to prevent tensions.”
Air connections are suspended
Several airlines have suspended their flights to Beirut since Monday, including Air France, which nevertheless announced plans to resume operations on Thursday. The president of Middle East Airlines, the Lebanese national company, Mohammad al-Hout, assured that the airport “has not received any threats”.
In Beirut, residents met by AFP are worried about this malaria outbreak, while others seem resigned. “I live in constant tension. I was thinking about how I can support my children if a war breaks out. This static and unstable position is exhausting,” testifies Cosette Béchara, a 40-year-old worker and mother of two children.
The international community is stepping up to prevent the conflict from spreading. A French representative told AFP in Beirut that France, “along with other partners, especially the United States, is making every effort to invite the parties to use restraint.”
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