Israeli forces are carrying out an “offensive action” in Lebanon, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant announced this Wednesday, without specifying whether the troops crossed the border. “Numerous forces are deployed on the border and carrying out offensive action in southern Lebanon,” the minister said in a video, in which he also stated that “half” of the commanders of the pro-Iran Hezbollah movement in the area were “eliminated” in the clashes of recent months.
«The other half hides and abandons the terrain to the operations of the Israel Defense Forces [FDI, el Ejército]», he added, without specifying the number of members of the Shiite movement concerned. The Israeli Army indicated, in another statement, that in the last few hours “IDF fighter planes and artillery attacked approximately 40 Hezbollah terrorist targets,” including storage and weapons facilities, in the Aita al Shaab area. Israel justified its attack against this southern area by ensuring that the Shiite group had established “dozens of military facilities and infrastructure” to “attack Israeli civilians and soldiers.”
The Lebanese state information agency indicated that Israel had carried out 13 attacks in Aita al Shaab and nearby villages. Yesterday Hezbollah claimed responsibility for launching “dozens” of rockets against northern Israel. Also today the Lebanese group launched projectiles against the Israeli town of Shomera. Both actions were in response to a “massacre” committed on Tuesday in the Lebanese town of Hanine in the south of the country, where “civilian deaths and injuries” were recorded, explains the note issued by the organization, which usually responds vehemently to the non-military casualties.
On Tuesday, Israel announced the death of two members of the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah in airstrikes carried out in the south of Lebanese territory, which have been repeated since the start of the war in Gaza last October. The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since 2006 with an intense exchange of fire for more than six months that has claimed the lives of nearly 400 people, most on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah. , which brings together more than 260 militia casualties, some in Syria.
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