Israeli authorities renew, issue 28 administrative detention orders
The Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society have said that this latest series of administrative detention orders have raised the overall toll to 3,432.
An administrative detainee is someone held in prison without charge or trial.
Neither the administrative detainees, who include women and children, nor their lawyers are allowed to see the “secret evidence” that Israeli forces say form the basis for their arrests.
These people have been arrested by the military for renewable periods of time, meaning the arrest duration is indefinite and could last for many years.
Israeli firefighters, aircraft attempt to stem fires caused by Hezbollah attacks
Israeli newspaper Haaretz reports that fourteen firefighting teams and six aircraft have been working to “extinguish several blazes that broke out in open areas following Hezbollah fire toward northern Israel’s Upper Galilee region”.
The newspaper said that most of the fires in the area had now been brought under control.
Israel’s killings in southern Lebanon ‘likely to worsen already tense situation’
At least 50 rockets have been launched by Hezbollah from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel.
Hezbollah says the attack is in retaliation for Israel’s attack on Nabatieh on Friday when an Israeli warplane struck a house and warehouse, killing at least 10 people and wounded five.
The victims, including two children and their mother, were Syrians working at a metal factory. “The target was a metal factory, but the Israeli military claims it was a missiles depot,” said Al Jazeera’s Ali Hashem, reports from Wadi al-Kfour in southern Lebanon.
“Israel’s killing of civilians here in southern Lebanon is likely to worsen an already tense situation. Attempts to avoid a wider conflict are still under way, but this attack could derail those efforts.”
Hussein Tahmaz, owner of the metal factory that was hit, said Israel’s “claims that these were Hezbollah weapon depots are utterly false”. “We have no political affiliation or aligned to any political party,” Tahmaz added. “We are concerned only with our business and livelihood.”
Israel strikes ‘Hezbollah structures’ in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military said that earlier today, fighter jets struck buildings it claimed were used by Hezbollah in Markaba, Ramyah and Kfar Hamam south of Lebanon. Israeli forces also shelled at-Tiri, Yater, Hanine and Labbouneh with artillery.
Several injured in Israeli raid on southern Lebanon
At least three people have been wounded in an Israeli attack on the town of Markaba, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement.
Earlier, the Israeli army said its fighter jets targeted buildings in Markaba, Ramyah, and Kfar Hamam in southern Lebanon, which they claimed were being used by Hezbollah.
