Israel and Hezbollah: Israeli attack on southern Beirut suburb, as Israeli army announces six of its soldiers killed in southern Lebanon – BBC News Arabic

Most of the residents of the suburb, which was home to an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 people before the war, have left since Israel began launching intense attacks at the end of the war. -September. But many of them return in the morning hours to check on their homes and shops.

A year after Lebanon’s Hezbollah opened a cross-border front in support of the Palestinian Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip, on September 23, Israel intensified its raids on the party’s positions in southern and eastern Lebanon and its suburbs. south of Beirut. On August 30, they announced the start of “limited” ground operations.

After 45 days of the ground attack, Hezbollah announced on Wednesday night/Thursday that it had targeted, with a salvo of missiles, the Israeli forces on the southern outskirts of the town of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, which has a special symbolism for Hezbollah , as it is. he saw fierce battles between the party’s fighters and the army in the war of July 2006 But without Israel being able to control it.

The National Agency reported a raid by “enemy military aircraft on the city of Bint Jbeil” during the night, noting that the city had witnessed a violent night of “random raids and artillery shelling, which led to the destruction of several residential buildings and apartments. .”

Since the start of the bombing exchange between Hezbollah and Israel on October 8, 2023, more than 3,360 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them civilians, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.

The Israeli army said it monitored the launch of 10 missiles it said were launched from Lebanon this morning at towns in the Upper Galilee, northern Israel, and said it sent Iron Dome system stopped some of them.

The army also announced that a drone was launched from the east towards the Eilat region last night, and another in Syrian airspace.

On Wednesday, the army announced that six of its soldiers were killed in battles in southern Lebanon. The Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that a force from the Golani Brigade entered a house where four Hezbollah members were kidnapped.

The Broadcasting Group explained that the battles took place eight kilometers from the border of Lebanon, and that the distance between the soldiers and Hezbollah members was not. It was reported that the battle took place in the area where the army expanded its operations yesterday.

This follows the statements of Israel’s new Defense Minister Yisrael Katz during a field trip around the North, saying, “One of the goals of the war is to disarm Hezbollah.

Katz said he would not stop the war and would not end an agreement without recognizing Israel’s right to act forcefully against any violation.

Thus, the death toll of soldiers killed in the ongoing battles against Hezbollah, since the beginning of the ground attack on the territory of​​​​​​Lebanon on September 30, rises to 47 dead.