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SvennoJ on 05 July 2024
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Israeli army says it hit Hezbollah anti-aircraft launcher in Lebanon

Warplanes have struck a surface-to-air missile launcher that belonged to the Lebanese group in southern Lebanon’s Rihan, according to the Israeli military.

A statement on X said that the launcher had been used to attack Israeli aircraft. A separate attack was conducted on a building in Markaba, targeting a Hezbollah member, the army said.

For its part, Hezbollah has announced several military operations against Israel today, including a rocket attack that it said targeted a base in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona.


Four wounded in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon

Four people have been lightly injured following repeated Israeli strikes on Lebanon’s southern municipality of Bint Jbeil, the National News Agency has said.

The agency said two of them were firefighters who had intervened following a first strike on Yaroun to extinguish a fire. They were injured in a second raid that took place less than half an hour later targeting the Al-Wadi area.


Hezbollah rocket hits building in northern Israel

Video posted on X by Israeli media shows a building in northern Israel’s Kiryat Shmona engulfed in flames after it was hit by incoming rocket fire from Lebanon.

Cross-border fire between Israel and Hezbollah has intensified in the last few days since Israel assassinated a senior Hezbollah military commander in the south Lebanon city of Tyre.

Hezbollah has so far claimed 17 attacks on Israeli territory today alone.

Translation: The shooting to the north: a direct hit to a house in Kiryat Shmona, falls in an open area in Shlomi


More overnight strikes on southern Lebanon by Israeli warplanes

Israeli fighter jets have attacked sites in southern Lebanon that the military said were used by Hezbollah to launch attacks on northern Israel.

A “launch site” and an “observation post” were targeted in the overnight air raids on the Marwahin and Hula areas of south Lebanon, while air defences intercepted aerial attacks launched against northern Israel, Israel’s military said in a post on social media.

In other areas along the border, Israel’s forces attacked “sources of artillery fire” inside Lebanon while two Israeli soldiers were slightly wounded by cross-border missile fire and evacuated for medical treatment, the military said.

 

US must ensure that Israel has weapons it needs, AIPAC says

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), an influential pro-Israel lobby group in the US, has cited Hezbollah’s attacks in Israel to call for more American weapons to the country.

“Hezbollah has fired more than 5,000 rockets, explosive drones, and missiles at Israeli communities nearly every day since October, dragging Israel and Lebanon closer toward a devastating war,” AIPAC said in an email to supporters.

“America must continue to ensure that Israel has the weapons it needs to protect its people.”

Netanyahu had sparked a row in Washington last month when he complained about a “dramatic drop” in US weapon deliveries. The Biden administration expressed bewilderment at his comments, stressing that only a single shipment of heavy bombs to Israel had been suspended out of concern for civilian harm.