Hezbollah and Israel: Israeli army announces six of its soldiers killed in southern Lebanon, and new wave of Israeli raids on southern suburbs – BBC News Arabic

This is the highest death toll suffered by the Israeli army in a single conflict since the start of ground operations in southern Lebanon.

Israeli Army Radio revealed that the fighting included two ambushes, one inside the building and the other outside, with anti-tank missiles.

ISIS announced that 107 soldiers and officers from the Golani Brigade were killed since October 7 last year.

She said the process of evacuating the wounded and dead soldiers was complicated and that the army “needed time” to understand the picture of what happened.

She said there is a belief that a tunnel was opening inside the building that allowed Hezbollah fighters to remain unharmed despite being bombed.

Meanwhile, Beirut’s southern suburbs were subjected to a new wave of Israeli raids on Wednesday, the third in 24 hours, and at least eight people were killed in another attack targeting the Aramoun area south of Beirut. , according to the Lebanese Ministry. of Health.

The Israeli raid targeted Beirut’s southern suburbs, about an hour after the Israeli army issued an evacuation warning to residents.

Black clouds of smoke rose over the southern suburbs, which is considered Hezbollah’s stronghold, as live pictures from Agence France-Presse showed.

On Wednesday, the raids targeted buildings, especially in the Ghobeiry and Haret Hreik regions, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.

The spokesman of the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, through his account on the “X” platform, asked residents to evacuate buildings in the “Haret Hreik and Ghobeiry” areas, because the IDF will be working against them soon.

On the other hand, Hezbollah announced on Wednesday that it had targeted the “Kiryah” base, where the headquarters of the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the General Staff were located in the city of Tel Aviv, with ballistic missiles. having previously reported. that they had launched an “air attack” with drones.

The party said in a statement that it was targeting “06:15 pm on Wednesday…

The party also announced that it targeted an arms industry company in Ramat Hasharon, on the outskirts of Tel Aviv, for the first time since the conflict between it and the Israeli state escalated at the end of September.

The party said in a statement that it aimed at “6:25 pm on Wednesday, for the first time, the IWI Armaments Industries Company …

In response to a question from Agence France-Presse, the Israeli army spokesman’s office said it “will not respond to Hezbollah’s accusations.”

The Israeli army, in two separate statements, reported that they intercepted two drones and 40 projectiles launched from Lebanon, indicating that there were no casualties. Both statements did not specify the locations targeted.

At the same time, Israel’s new Defense Minister, Yisrael Katz, promised not to slow down the pace of the war against Iran-backed Hezbollah.

He said during his first visit, since taking over the defense portfolio last week, to the Israeli army command center in the north: “We will not stop any stop, we will not reduce the speed, and we will not allow any agreement that does so. without including the achievement of the war’s aims, especially Israel’s right to act independently.” Against any terrorist activity.

Katz said: “We dealt heavy blows to Hezbollah and we eliminated (Hassan) Nasrallah, and this is just the most appropriate time to continue our strikes with all our strength to get the result of the victory.”

Katz emphasized the need for Israel to “disarm Hezbollah, push it past the Litani River, and create the necessary conditions for the residents of northern Israel to return to their homes safely.”