Israeli army says its warplanes attacked Hezbollah observation post in Lebanon
The Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah fighters and buildings on Saturday night. It said Israeli warplanes struck a Hezbollah observation post in the Kfar Kila area of southern Lebanon. Israeli forces also attacked Hezbollah fighters in the Taiba area.
The latest attacks come as UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned the “world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza”.
Destroyed houses in Khiam, southern Lebanon, following Israeli air raids on Saturday
Hezbollah releases more drone footage of Israeli sites, claims attack on barracks
Lebanese villages are seen in the distance as smoke rises from fires in the hills after rockets launched from southern Lebanon landed on the Banias area in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights, Friday
Hezbollah’s drone video showing Israeli sites is another warning shot
This video is titled “To whom it may concern”.
It shows various locations – exact locations. They apparently include the HaKirya complex, which contains Israel’s Ministry of Security and military commands. The video has something that others do not: vital infrastructure, such as oil reservoirs, electric stations, satellite bases and the maritime coordinates for three gas extraction sites.
The video comes days after more drone footage from Hezbollah showed infiltrations into Israeli airspace over the port city of Haifa. As there is talk of escalation, this again is a warning from Hezbollah to Israel that it can infiltrate its airspace and it can highlight vital locations that could be targeted in the event of an all-out war.
Thousands of Iran-backed fighters offer to join Hezbollah in its fight against Israel
Thousands of fighters from Iran-backed groups in the Middle East are ready to come to Lebanon to join the Hezbollah group in its battle with Israel if the simmering conflict escalates into a full-blown war, officials with Iran-backed factions and analysts say.
Almost daily exchanges of fire have occurred along Lebanon’s frontier with northern Israel since Israel launched a devastating war on Gaza in the wake of a deadly attack carried out by Hamas fighters inside Israel.
The situation worsened this month after an Israeli air strike killed a senior Hezbollah military commander in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah responded by firing hundreds of rockets and explosive drones into northern Israel.
Israeli officials have threatened a military offensive in Lebanon if there is no negotiated end to push Hezbollah away from the border. The Lebanese group has said it would halt its attacks if Israel stops its Gaza offensive, which has killed more than 37,000 Palestinians.
Houthi fighters march during a rally of support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and against the U.S. strikes on Yemen, outside Sanaa
Hezbollah claims to have killed Israeli soldiers in northern Israel
Lebanon’s Hezbollah group has claimed to have “directly hit” Israeli soldiers in a drone attack on the headquarters of the army’s 91st Division in northern Israel’s Ayelet HaShahar.
It said the attack left “them dead and wounded”.
In a statement on Telegram, the group said the attack came in response to “the assassination carried out by the Israeli enemy in the town of Al-Khayara” in eastern Lebanon’s Bekaa district a day earlier.
We reported yesterday about the Israeli raid on a car that killed a Lebanese man in the western Bekaa district.
Israeli forces later said they killed Ayman Ghatmeh, who had been “responsible for supplying weapons to Hamas and the Islamic Group [al-Jamaa al-Islamiya] in Lebanon” with a drone.
