Israel Strikes Hezbollah in Lebanon – Latest Updates and Analysis

2024-03-01 03:01:00
Israel again attacked Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon (REUTERS TV via REUTERS)

This Thursday, the Israeli Army carried out new bombings against “launching positions” of projectiles of the terrorist group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon after a new rocket fire against the Israeli community of Goren, with no information on casualties for now.

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“Fighter aircraft have attacked Hezbollah terrorist targets in the Jebel Balt region, including launch positions located near a military facility where terrorists from the organization operated,” Israeli authorities said.

Likewise, they confirmed that projectiles were fired at northern Israel earlier in the day, before assuring that “the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have attacked the source of the shots.” Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the attacks.

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For its part, the terrorist group claimed responsibility for four attacks carried out this Thursday: one carried out with artillery shells against a deployment of Israeli soldiers in Jal al Alam, and another three with rockets that targeted soldiers around the “Cobra Hill” site and the towns of Ramtha and Eilon.

In recent days, Hezbollah launched volleys of dozens of rockets against Israel, in an escalation that began in October in solidarity with the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip and is at war with Israel.

An Israeli fighter plane flies over an area near the border between Lebanon and Israel (EFE/EPA/ATEF SAFADI)

This week the Israeli Army claimed to have killed the head of Hezbollah’s Naser unit, in an attack carried out on Monday with fighter jets in the Lebanese city of Tyre, in the south of this country bordering Israel.

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This is Hasan Hussein Salami, who commanded attacks against “civil and military objectives” in the north, according to a military statement, such as the launch of “anti-tank missiles towards the Kiryat Shmona area or against the brigade headquarters (Israeli ) 769″.

Thus, the border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since 2006 with an intense exchange of fire, which has claimed the lives of more than 302 people, 219 of them in the ranks of Hezbollah, which has also confirmed some casualties. In Syria.

In Israel, 16 people have died on the northern border (ten soldiers and six civilians); while on the other side of the border at least 286 have died, including some 32 members of Palestinian militias, one soldier and 36 civilians – among them ten minors and three journalists – in addition to Hezbollah militiamen.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, for its part, reported this Thursday that at least one person died due to the bombing of a drone against a vehicle belonging to Hezbollah that was circulating in an area of ​​western Syria near the border with Lebanon.

The attack, which is believed to have been carried out by Israel, occurred on the outskirts of the city of Al Qusayr and caused the death of at least one person who has not yet been identified, the organization said in a statement.

Hezbollah terrorist units also operate in Syrian territory in support of dictator Bashar al Assad (REUTERS/Ali Hashisho)

According to the NGO, based in the United Kingdom and a wide network of collaborators on the ground, around the same time several explosions also occurred in the vicinity of Damascus.

The causes of the explosions on the outskirts of the Syrian capital are still unknown, which last night were the target of an Israeli missile bombardment in which two Hezbollah members of Syrian nationality died, according to the Observatory.

Although they already took place relatively frequently before, Israel has intensified its air actions against Syrian territory since the start of the Gaza war.

These bombings are often directed against targets of Hezbollah, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and other militias close to Tehran that are present in Syria as allies of the Bashar al Assad regime.

(With information from Europa Press and EFE)

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