The Lebanese Civil Defense said that a woman was martyred and her husband was injured in an Israeli bombing of their house in the town of Maroun al-Ras. South Lebanon.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards the Avivim settlement in the Upper Galilee.
As announced Lebanese Hezbollah He bombed the jungles of the Pranit settlement and fired missiles at Kiryat Shmona, stressing in a statement that he would not allow the invasion of Lebanese villages and harming civilians.
On the other hand, Israeli fighters launched a series of raids on 10 Lebanese villages, including the town of Basalia in the Jezzine district, which is more than 25 kilometers away from the border.
This comes as a continuation of the escalation on the Lebanese border, as the Lebanese Hezbollah announced yesterday, Wednesday, the killing of two of its fighters in confrontations with Israel in the south. Lebanonbringing to 117 the party’s death toll since last October 8.
The party also announced that it had targeted several Israeli military sites off the southern Lebanese border, saying that it had caused casualties among soldiers, stressing that it had targeted the Israeli monk site (off the town of Aita al-Shaab) with Burkan missiles and had caused direct casualties.
Possible war
Israeli Army Chief of Staff Herzi Halevy said that the current situation on the northern front with Lebanon must change in order to return the evacuated Israelis.
Halevy’s statements came during a tour to assess the security situation and a meeting with soldiers from Israeli reserve units.
In turn, an Israeli military spokesman said, “We are closer to war today than we were yesterday,” accusing Hezbollah of what he called a systematic escalation along the border, adding that Hezbollah “is implicating Lebanon in a dangerous war.”
The statements of the occupation army spokesman come amid threats made by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to launch a military operation to force Hezbollah to retreat beyond the Litani River.
The American news site Axios quoted Israeli and American officials as saying that Israel informed the American administration that it wants to push Hezbollah approximately 10 kilometers from the border, as part of an agreement to end tension with Lebanon.
The border areas in southern Lebanon have witnessed security tension and an exchange of fire between the Israeli occupation army and elements affiliated with the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Palestinian resistance in Lebanon, since last October 8, after the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza strip.