Hostilities between Israel and Lebanon are intensifying, and Tel Aviv’s retaliation against Iran is expected. 60 dead and 168 wounded by Israeli strikes in Lebanon, while Hezbollah attacked a military base and a nursing home in the north. Israel has been strongly condemned by Italy, France and Spain, who are calling for an end to attacks against UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon. The American President’s statements were on the same wavelength. A new appeal to all sides to de-escalate the tension in the Middle East, the summit of the 9 Euro-Mediterranean countries addressed from Cyprus. Israel’s military has warned residents of southern Lebanon “not to return” to their homes, stressing that its forces continue to face fighters from the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah in the area.
“For your own protection, do not return to your homes until further notice. Do not head south, anyone heading south is risking their lives,” added the message from the Israeli army spokesman.
As the ERTNews correspondent in Tel Aviv, Kostis Constantinou, reported, the city is deserted and Yom Kippur began yesterday afternoon and ends tonight at sunset. “We had a very quiet night in Tel Aviv.
The only thing that could be heard – because there are no cars on Yom Kippur – at regular intervals were fighter jets flying over the city, on patrols. In the rest of Israel we had some strikes, we had some rockets towards Haifa, we also had a drone that took off from Lebanon to Herzliya, which is the next city from Tel Aviv, it only caused damage and there were no casualties,” the journalist said and he added that “when it will strike and how it will strike Israel, are the two main questions”.
Hezbollah says it fired ‘rockets’ at Israeli military base near Haifa
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah announced today (12/10) that it fired “rockets” at an Israeli military base near Haifa, the major city in northern Israel.
In a statement it issued, the pro-Iranian movement clarified that it had bombed with “a barrage of rockets a base located in the southern part of Haifa, targeting an explosives factory”.
Yesterday Hezbollah announced that it launched an attack with unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) against an air base in Haifa.
Wave of international criticism against Israel for attacks in Lebanon and targeting of blue-collar workers
Israel, which celebrates Yom Kippur today, is facing a wave of international criticism over its military offensive in Lebanon and its soldiers’ firing on UN peacekeepers in that country.
Israel said yesterday, Friday, that it opened fire in the direction of a “threat” near a UN Interim Force (UNIFIL, FINUL) position in southern Lebanon, where its army is conducting a wide-ranging air and ground operation against Hezbollah, a Palestinian ally. Hamas.
“Two Sri Lankan peacekeepers were injured,” following two Indonesians the previous day, UNIFIL said, reporting explosions for the second time in 48 hours.
At the same time, Hezbollah yesterday called on the Israelis to move away from military positions in populated areas of northern Israel. “The army of the Israeli enemy uses houses as gathering centers for its officers and soldiers” in many areas of northern Israel and “has military bases” in the main cities of the northern part of the country, such as “Haifa, Tiberias, Acre” mainly, the Lebanese Shiite movement said in a statement.
As Israel commemorates the important Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur today, air raid sirens sounded overnight in at least five areas in the north of the country, according to the Israeli military.
Hezbollah announced a little earlier today that it had launched “missiles” at an Israeli military base near Haifa, the large city in the north of Israel, while yesterday it had announced that it had launched an attack with unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) against an air base in the same city.
Meanwhile in Gaza, gunfire and explosions were heard in the Al Zeitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, according to an AFP reporter.
Yesterday, the voice of US President Joe Biden joined those of many others internationally who criticized the Israeli fire against UNIFIL soldiers. Asked: “Are you going to ask Israel to stop hitting UN peacekeepers?”, the US president replied: “Certainly, absolutely.”
French President Emmanuel Macron called it “absolutely unacceptable” that the Blue Helmets were “deliberately targeted by the Israeli armed forces” and warned that France “will not tolerate” new fire, in statements he made during the Mediterranean Summit of Member States of the European Union (Med9) in Cyprus.
The French president also estimated that “the cessation of arms exports” used in Gaza and Lebanon is “the only lever” to end the conflicts raging there.
The ten countries that are non-permanent members of the UN Security Council simultaneously expressed their “deep concern” after these attacks and “underlined that any deliberate attack against peacekeeping forces constitutes a serious violation of international humanitarian law.”
Today, moreover, the Prime Minister of Ireland, Simon Harris, called on Israel to take into account the “concerns of the international community” and to “cease” the fire against the soldiers of the UN peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon.
Thirty people died yesterday in Israeli strikes in Jabalia
Meanwhile, the Civil Protection Service of the Gaza Strip announced yesterday, Friday evening, the death of 30 people throughout the day in a series of Israeli strikes in the city and the Palestinian refugee camp of Jabalia, in the northern part of the Palestinian enclave.
Mahmoud Basal, the spokesman for this agency under the government of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip, clarified in a statement issued that a strike that occurred around 21:40 local time (and Greek time) claimed the lives of ” 12 people, including women and children” in the city of Jabalia.
Earlier, Ahmad al-Qalout, the director of the Civil Protection agency for the northern part of the Gaza Strip, had informed AFP that 18 people had died in several strikes that took place during the day yesterday in the city and the camp. of Jabalia refugees, which mainly affected “eight schools” located in the camp and serving as shelters for displaced persons.
Basal also said 14 people were missing and believed to be trapped in the rubble from the latest strike.
According to the data released by Basal and Kalut, yesterday’s strikes also injured a total of at least 110 people.
The Israeli military, which did not announce any strikes in the Jabalia area during the day yesterday, did not respond to questions from AFP about the strikes Kalut reported on eight schools in the camp.
On Sunday, the Israeli army announced it would again encircle Jabalia, which is a few kilometers northeast of Gaza City, and called on residents to leave the area in order to launch an offensive against Hamas militants, who, according to the likewise, they are reorganizing “their forces” in this area.
This area has already twice been the focus of very heavy fighting in the Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the war on October 7, 2023, which was triggered by the bloody and unprecedented attack by the militants of the Palestinian Islamist movement in southern Israel, which claimed the lives of 1,206 people, most of them civilians, according to an AFP count that relied on official Israeli figures and includes hostages dead or killed while being held in Gaza out of the 251 taken hostage and abducted that day by Hamas fighters.
At least 42,126 Palestinians have died, most of them civilians, in the Israeli assault on Gaza, according to figures from the Hamas government’s health ministry, which are deemed reliable by the UN.
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