Climbing coming up? Or incident without a future? The army israeli claimed on Wednesday August 26 in the morning of the air strikes against Hezbollah positions near the Lebanese-Israeli border where UN peacekeepers are patrolling, in ” reply “ to fire from the Shiite movement towards its soldiers.
“There have been shootings since Lebanon to Israeli soldiers […] The soldiers responded with flares and fire. Then, during the night, helicopter gunships and planes hit Hezbollah posts ”, said the Israeli army, which did not report any casualties in its ranks.
Earlier that night, the IDF announced a security incident
near the Manara kibbutz, along the Blue line
, de facto border separating these two countries theoretically at war.
Israeli sources had reported shooting from Lebanon into Israel. And the Lebanese national press agency had, for its part, mentioned throws of flares
from Israel to the Mays al-Jabal sector, located opposite Manara, as well as Israeli fire with automatic weapon
.
The IDF said to take this event very seriously
and affirmed hold the Lebanese government responsible for what is happening in its territory
.
Earlier this month, Israel offered humanitarian aid to Lebanon in the wake of deadly explosions in Beirut and the metropolis of Tel Aviv had illuminated the facade of its town hall with the colors of the Lebanese flag, a gesture criticized by part of the Israeli right because Lebanon remains in theory an enemy country.
This new border incident comes as Lebanese Hezbollah announced this weekend that it had shot down an Israeli drone that had crossed the border into Lebanon, with Israel simply saying that one of its drones was fallen into Lebanese territory
.
Israel accuses Iran and Hezbollah of damaging strategic positions
Israel accuses in particularIran and its ally Hezbollah to seek to transform rockets in Lebanon into precision missiles capable of thwarting the Israeli anti-missile shield Iron Dome and thus causing significant damage to Israeli strategic positions.
The Hebrew state also claimed at the end of July that it had repelled an attempt to infiltrate Hezbollah fighters on Israeli soil.
The Lebanese Shiite movement had denied any involvement in the incident, which took place after alleged Israeli missiles fired at positions of the Syrian army and their allies south of Damascus.
Since the start of the war in Syria, Israel has carried out numerous raids in that country, in particular against elements of Lebanese Hezbollah and Iranian forces which support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against various rebellions.
Some 10,500 peacekeepers from the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) monitor the Lebanese-Israeli border and ensure the implementation of Security Council resolution 1,701 adopted after the war between Israel and Hezbollah to prevent a new conflict.
However, Israel called last week, with the approach of the renewal of the UNIFIL mandate, for a reform of this UN mission which it accused of bias
and of inefficiency
because not having, according to the Hebrew State, access to all areas of southern Lebanon.
Almost to the day last year, on September 1, 2019, heavy exchanges of fire at the border between the two countries recalled, the story of a day, the specter of the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
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