He Israeli army launched 15 bombings this Thursday against Shiite militia targets Hezbollah in Beirutincluding its historic center for the second time in a year of clashes, in attacks that have caused at least nine deaths, although the Lebanese authorities do not rule out more victims, while the clashes continue on the border between both countries.
The Israeli Army reported an airstrike against the intelligence headquarters of the Shiite group Hezbollah in Beirut and also the office of its communication organ in the same city.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, at least nine people died and fourteen were injured in the bombing, although they reported that they are analyzing the DNA remains found at the scene to determine the final death count.
The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) reported that bombings occurred in the Beirut area of the Dahyewhich targeted the neighborhoods of Haret Hreik, Burj al Barajna, Al Amirikan y Al Ghobeirywhile a building “completely collapsed” in the Muawad area.
He added that the attack destroyed a center of the Islamic Health Authorityan organization linked to Hezbollah that is responsible for offering health care and services, and in which “internationally prohibited phosphorus bombs” were used, he said.
The Israeli Army does not specify in its statement which Beirut neighborhoods were attacked.
The target in Muawad was Hezbollah’s media office, a source close to the group who asked not to be identified told EFE.
In a statement, the Israeli Army reported that it had attacked 15 Hezbollah targets throughout Thursday.
According to the military note, the targets hit included several weapons production and storage centers and “other infrastructure.” In Beirut, according to the Army, they attacked Hezbollah’s command centers and intelligence and intelligence-gathering operations.
Simultaneously, Israel continued its intense bombing in the south and east of Lebanon, where Hezbollah’s main strongholds are located.
A Lebanese soldier was killed in an Israeli attack on a Lebanese Red Cross convoy evacuating victims in the south of the country, where four volunteers and another soldier were also injured.
Some 2,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks since a year ago, while violence has also forced more than 1.2 million people to flee their homes, according to the Lebanese government.
Land offensive
In the midst of the ground offensive, the Israeli Army this Thursday ordered the evacuation of twenty towns in southern Lebanon, including the town of Nabatiehone of the hardest hit by the Israeli bombings of recent weeks.
It is the third time that Israeli forces have called for the evacuation of towns in southern Lebanon since the ground incursion began on Monday night.
In all cases Israel has asked civilians to go north of the river Originallymore than 50 kilometers from the border and much further north of the river Litany (30 kilometers), which marks the demilitarized zone designated by the UN after the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, where there should be no armed presence other than the Lebanese authorities and the United Nations mission in the country (UNIFIL).
Israel also claimed to have killed some 60 Hezbollah fighters and to have hit some 200 Hezbollah “targets” in Lebanese territory in the last day.
Hezbollah has counterattacked by launching at least 120 rockets into Israeli territory, several of them against the Alta Galileawhere the anti-aircraft alarms sounded. Some were intercepted and others made impact.
Also the Shiite Houthi rebels of the Yemen They claimed this Thursday a new attack with “several drones” against ‘Yafa’ (Tel Aviv), which “successfully achieved its objective.”
Iran reiterates its support for Palestinian and Lebanese “factions”
While the fighting continues in Lebanon, the president of Iran, Masud Pezeshkian, reaffirmed from Doha his country’s support for the Palestinian and Lebanese “resistance factions”, assured that Israel “will not be able to eliminate” them and warned that “the Zionist entity will be punished soon.”
In Tehran, Iran summoned the ambassadors of Germany y Austria separately to protest the convening of Iranian diplomats in Berlin and Vienna following the attack on Israel on Monday night and rejected the G7 leaders’ condemnation of the missile attack on Israel, which he described as “biased and irresponsible.” and called on the group to focus its attention on stopping the conflict in Gaza and Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the Russian Foreign Ministry, through its deputy minister Sergei Ryabkov He stated this Thursday that Moscow It is in “very close contact” with Iran due to the worsening of the situation in the Middle East. EFE (I)
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