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Israeli warplanes hit Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon: Army

The Israeli army has said its fighter jets struck the Hezbollah group targets in southern Lebanon overnight. In a statement on X, the military said a Hezbollah military site in the Aitaroun village was hit along with the organisation’s operational infrastructures in Kfar Kila and Khiam.

The statement also confirmed that two Israeli soldiers were injured, one of them seriously, after an antitank missile was launched towards the Israeli city of Metula from Lebanon. The Israeli media reported the attack yesterday evening.

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Israel shells civil defence team in southern Lebanon: Report

Lebanon’s National News Agency has said the Israeli forces targeted a civil defence team in the village of Taybeh in southern Lebanon with an artillery shell.

The attack was carried out while the team was extinguishing a fire in the village, and a member was injured by shrapnel in the chest before being hospitalised, according to the report.

‘Intense phase of war with Hamas about to end,’ focus to shift to Lebanon border, Netanyahu says

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/23/middleeast/intense-phase-hamas-war-end-netanyahu-lebanon-intl-latam/index.html

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday that the “intense phase of the war with Hamas (in Gaza) is about to end,” and that the military’s focus could then shift to Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, where fighting with the Iran-backed group Hezbollah has intensified in recent weeks.

Netanyahu, however, vowed that Israel would continue operating in Gaza until the militant group Hamas was eliminated.

“It doesn’t mean that the war is going to end, but the war in its current stage is going to end in Rafah. This is true. We will continue mowing the grass later,” Netanyahu told Channel 14 Television in his first one-on-one interview with local Israeli media since October 7.