Today, Friday, the escalation continues on both sides of the Lebanese-Israeli border, as he reported Hizb allah The Lebanese army fired missiles at military sites and targeted concentrations of Israeli soldiers, while the Israeli army responded by bombing border towns and sites that it said belonged to the party, while Israeli Channel 12 said that Israel needs international legitimacy and American weapons to wage a comprehensive war on Lebanon.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that more than 20 missiles were fired from the south Lebanon Towards Israeli military sites between the Zarait and Shtula settlements in the Upper Galilee.
For its part, Israeli Army Radio said that 24 missiles were monitored from Lebanon into the north Israel Today morning.
Siren
Israeli Radio indicated that the launching of rockets coincided with the sound of sirens in a number of settlements near the Lebanese border, but it stated that no human casualties were detected.
Sirens have sounded more than once since this morning in a number of settlements near the Lebanese border.
Hezbollah also announced that it had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Shomera Barracks with appropriate weapons.
Hezbollah announced yesterday that it had targeted with missiles 6 settlements and 4 military sites off the southern border.
Israeli response
In response, during the past hours, Israeli aircraft and artillery bombed the vicinity of more than 20 towns in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army announced that it bombed Hezbollah military sites and infrastructure after shelling was fired from Lebanon at the border towns.
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that 3 Israeli raids targeted the Labouneh area in the western sector of southern Lebanon.
Occupation withdrawal
Politically, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said today that the solution in southern Lebanon is through the implementation of international resolutions on the condition that Israel withdraws from the occupied Lebanese territories.
He added – in a speech during the cabinet session – that 74 days have passed since the tragedy of the war on Gaza, the repeated attacks on southern Lebanon, civilian casualties and human suffering.
He added, “Our people in the south are victims of daily Israeli attacks, and the villages, land, and crops are all being burned.”
At the end of last October, Mikati said that he was working to avoid Lebanon entering into war.
Many in Lebanon fear the repercussions of any possible escalation, at a time when the economic crisis that has been ongoing for more than 4 years has exhausted the ability of public institutions to provide basic services.
Worsening escalation
The border area in southern Lebanon has witnessed a worsening military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah since the Islamic Resistance Movement launched (agitation) Palestinian Authority on October 7 Operation Al-Aqsa Flood.
Hezbollah mainly carried out daily operations against Israeli military targets near the border, placing this within the framework of supporting the Gaza Strip and “in support of its resistance.”
Israel responds by bombing border areas, targeting what it describes as the movements of Hezbollah fighters and its facilities near the border. The intensity of the bombing has increased recently, resulting in major destruction in some neighborhoods of the southern border villages.
