2023-10-31 01:51:17
Confrontations have broken out again on the border between Israel and Lebanon. Israeli military fighter jets attacked the “terrorist infrastructure” of the Shiite Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, the Israeli army said on Telegram on Tuesday night. Nighttime fighting was also reported in the Gaza Strip. Soldiers also shot an “infiltrator” from the Gaza Strip when he resisted arrest.
The targets of Israel’s attacks in Lebanon included Hezbollah weapons and positions. According to the army, rockets had been fired from Lebanon at Israel in the previous days. There have been increasing confrontations on the Israeli-Lebanese border since the beginning of the Gaza war. There were already deaths on both sides. Hezbollah has ties to the Islamist Hamas, which rules in the Gaza Strip.
In the Gaza Strip, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas, said it fired on Israeli forces in the north and south on Tuesday night. Militants used machine guns and anti-tank missiles to engage in battles with Israeli forces that had “entered the southern Gaza axis,” the statement said. The militants also fired rockets at two Israeli tanks and bulldozers in the northwest of the Gaza Strip. The Israeli military did not initially comment. In any case, rocket alarms were reported from the village of Netiv Haasara and the city of Ashkelon north of the Gaza Strip, the Israeli daily Haaretz reported in its online ticker.
However, the spokesman for the Israeli Defense Forces, Daniel Hagari, announced on Twitter (X) on Tuesday night that an intruder from the Gaza Strip had been caught five kilometers inland and shot dead during an attempt to arrest him. The incident occurred at an intersection near Kibbutz Re’im, near which the Supernova festival massacre took place on October 7, in which around 260 party-goers were killed and numerous others were kidnapped as hostages in the Gaza Strip.
A new incident was also reported in the West Bank. Jewish settlers set fire to a house in a village south of Hebron on Tuesday night, Haaretz said online. The US State Department called on Israel on Monday to stop violence by Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank against Palestinians. Measures must be taken to protect the Palestinian residents.
In any case, the USA does not want to join the increasingly loud international calls for a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. “We don’t believe a ceasefire is the right answer right now,” White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said Monday evening. Instead, consideration should be given to “pauses” to bring aid supplies to the Gaza Strip.
At the same time, he was convinced that “in the coming days” it would be possible to bring “a hundred trucks a day” with relief supplies to the Palestinian territory controlled by Hamas. According to the United Nations, this amount of aid is at least necessary to provide the suffering population in the Gaza Strip with the essentials. This number has not yet come close to being reached.
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