Warning sirens sounded in central Israel today due to a number of missiles fired from Lebanon towards Israeli territory, the country’s military said.
The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah announced that it had targeted an Israeli naval base near Haifaa day after an earlier attack on another military base in the same area in which four soldiers were killed – the air defense system failed – fulfilling its promise of more and more strikes if Israel continues its attacks in Lebanon.
Air defense research from Israel
Meanwhile, an investigation has been ordered and is underway in Israel to determine what caused the Iron Dome air defense system to malfunction and cause Hezbollah drones launched from Lebanon to hit the Binyamina military base during which 4 Israeli soldiers were injured and 51 injured. , seven of which are serious.
Haaretz reports that it is not clear what route the drones took, but it appears that no warning sirens were activated.
Sources say the air defense system detected and intercepted one but the other was lost to radar. The systems showed no sign of it and it was certain that both UAVs had been destroyed by the interceptor missiles. But the second drone eventually hit the target which was the military base in the area.
Hezbollah: We are alert
“We remain alert and prepared to defend our country,” Hezbollah said in a statement.
In addition, the Shiite movement pointed out that it attacked Israeli forces that had advanced in the village of Maroun al-Ras, in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel.
Hezbollah said its fighters used “artillery mortars against concentrated enemy soldiers” in that village.
Israel’s second strike on civilians
At least 10 people killed in Israeli strikes on food distribution center in Gaza
Palestinian rescuers said today that at least 10 people were killed and at least 30 wounded in Israeli airstrikes on a food distribution center in the Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip. The victims include women and children, according to the same source.
“Attacks against the UN are unacceptable”
Israeli attacks against the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are “unacceptable” and against UN regulations, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Albarez said today.
“They are contrary to what we expect from any member of the United Nations, which is essentially an organization that protects world peace,” he told reporters ahead of the EU’s Foreign Affairs Council in Luxembourg.
EU countries led by Italy, France and Spain are contributing thousands of troops to the 10,000-strong peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, which has repeatedly said it has come under attack in recent days by Israeli forces.
Israel has called on the United Nations to move its troops out of the war zone.
Albares said only the United Nations can order the removal of UNIFIL forces.
Israel disputes some of the reported attacks, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has accused UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon of serving as “human shields” for Hezbollah.
Borrell: EU could condemn Israeli attacks at UN more quickly
Regarding the attacks by the Israeli army against the UN peacekeeping force in South Lebanon (UNIFIL), the EU High Representative emphasized that “after hours of discussion we finally managed last night to agree on a joint statement of the 27”. “A lot of our soldiers are there, so I would appreciate if the member states could agree on this more quickly,” Borrell commented, as 16 EU member states participate in UNIFIL. In its statement, the EU “condemns attacks by the Israel Defense Forces against UN peacekeeping missions”, stressing that such attacks “constitute a serious violation of international law, are completely unacceptable and must stop immediately”.
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