Release Hizb allah The Lebanese Army – late yesterday evening, Tuesday, fired 3 anti-tank missiles at the Upper Galilee, north of Israel, and vowed to avenge the assassination. Saleh Al-Arouri Deputy Head of the Political Bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) In Beirut.
Hezbollah said that it also targeted a group of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Marj military site, killing and wounding its members.
Israeli media confirmed that shortly after that assassination, Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile at the Moshav Margaliot area on the Lebanese border.
It also added that the Lebanese party fired two anti-tank missiles at a site in the Manara area, while the Israeli army attacked the source of the fire.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 10 attacks on northern Israel during the past 24 hours.
On the other hand, the Lebanese News Agency said that Israeli aircraft bombed the outskirts of the southern town of Houla With phosphorous bombsHe also launched raids on the Hunin Valley South Lebanon.
Hezbollah had targeted the vicinity of the Israeli site of Jal al-Alam and the Mitat barracks, before the assassination of Al-Arouri in the southern suburb of Beirut, which is considered a stronghold of the party.
Hezbollah’s response
After the assassination of Al-Arouri, Hezbollah said that his assassination would not go unanswered, considering that the assassination in the heart of the southern suburb of Beirut is a dangerous assault on Lebanon, its people, its security, sovereignty, and resistance, and the political and security messages it contains are extremely symbolic and significant, according to the party’s statement.
Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said earlier that any assassination on Lebanese soil that targets a Lebanese, Palestinian, Syrian, Iranian, or others will have a strong reaction, and will not allow the Lebanese arena to be opened for assassinations, as he put it.
For his part, an Israeli official reported that the Israeli authorities are preparing for what he described as a major retaliatory response from Hezbollah to the assassination of Al-Arouri in Beirut.
Yesterday, the Israeli Walla news website quoted the unnamed official as saying that Tel Aviv is preparing for a “retaliatory response,” including launching long-range missiles at targets in Israel.
Al-Arouri’s assassination comes at a time when Lebanon’s southern border has witnessed intermittent daily confrontations and bombing between Hezbollah on one side and the Israeli army on the other since last October 8, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries on both sides of the border.