2023-11-20 03:11:00
Hezbollah terrorists attack Israeli positions in the north of the country (REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein)
The Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah launched more than 1,000 projectiles into Israeli territory since hostilities broke out in the border area between Israel and Lebanon on October 8, a day after the start of the war between the Israeli Army and the extremist Hamas movement in the Gaza Strip.
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“Since the beginning of the war, Hezbollah has fired more than 1,000 munitions at Israeli targets, but it is suffering much more significant damage,” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said this Sunday in statements reported by the Times of Israel newspaper.
Since the beginning of the crossfire that has continued daily since October 8, Hezbollah terrorists have launched different types of weapons, from anti-tank missiles to rockets or mortars.
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This has been accompanied by the actions of Palestinian militias in Lebanon linked to Hamas or Islamic Jihad, which have also been firing projectiles, although their strength is smaller than the Shiite militia, with which Israel fought in a month-long war in 2006.
This time, the clashes are the largest since the conflict of that time, although the clashes are of relatively moderate intensity and have not escalated to a total war for now.
Hezbollah terrorists support Hamas in the war with Israel (REUTERS/Alaa Al-Marjani)
“We attack squadrons and also military posts and objectives, Hezbollah pays a very high price every day,” said Gallant, who pointed out that “the root of the hostility is Iran,” its greatest enemy and ally of both Hezbollah in Lebanon and Hamas. in the Gaza Strip.
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As he alleged, “the Defense apparatus has identified a growing trend that Iran seeks to intensify militia attacks on Israel through its proxies in Iraq, Syria and Yemen.”
Hostilities in the Lebanon-Israel area have resulted in the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents from towns on both sides of the border.
For its part, Hezbollah claimed responsibility this Sunday for 11 attacks against different Israeli military targets. The terrorists launched a series of attacks with rockets and artillery shells against Israeli “soldier gatherings” near the border, while also targeting a camp where Israeli uniformed personnel were carrying out weapons maintenance, according to several statements released by the group.
The group also claimed responsibility for attacks in the town of Metula, in northern Israel, directed against Israeli vehicles that it did not specify, in an action that Hezbollah claimed to have caused “direct victims.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant (Elad Malka/GPO/dpa)
Late in the afternoon, according to the statements, the group launched three more rounds of attacks using rockets and projectiles against Israeli “detachments” and “technical teams” in the north of the Jewish state.
The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) indicated that Israeli forces “continuously” attacked various areas of southern Lebanon, causing injuries to a civilian while he was driving his car in the town of Kfarkela, very close to the border.
So far, the armed clashes have left at least 103 dead in the area: 10 in Israel – 7 soldiers and 3 civilians – and at least 93 in Lebanon, including 72 members of Hezbollah, 8 members of Palestinian militias and 13 civilians – among them. them a cameraman from the Archyde.com agency and three children.
The violence has raised fears that it will become a second front in the Gaza war, a scenario for which the Lebanese Government is already preparing at various levels with the help of international organizations and UN agencies.
(With information from EFE)
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