Hezbollah claims more attacks on Israeli positions
The Lebanese armed group said it carried out three assaults on Israeli positions late on Sunday.
These are:
- an artillery attack on an Israeli radar in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms
- amissile attack on an Israeli Merkava tank in an area called al-Marj in northern Israel which caused casualties
- an artillery attack on Israeli soldiers in Jal al-Allam.
There was no immediate comment from Israel.
The attacks came after Israel’s military and Hezbollah traded intense fire, with Israeli jets carrying out hundreds of air raids on southern Lebanon and the armed group claiming missile and rocket attacks on the Ramat David Airbase and the site of an Israeli defence tech company.
Emergency personnel work at a site of houses damaged following a rocket attack from Lebanon in Kiryat Bialik, Israel, September 22
Israeli minister shares plan to ‘remove population’ from southern Lebanon
Amichai Chikli, the Israeli Minister for Diaspora Affairs, has shared a plan to create a “buffer zone, free of enemy population” in southern Lebanon, including a map showing several southern Lebanese towns.
Chikli outlined his plan in a lengthy post on his personal account on X, describing it as the “most just thing to do” including from a “moral point of view”.
Chikli, a member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, also claimed Israel would be justified in “taking over” the areas because Lebanon had “failed to exercise its sovereignty” in southern Lebanon.
The southern Lebanese towns and villages that appeared to be included within the area outlined by Chikli on the map included: Kfarchouba, Khiam, Marjayoun, Taybeh and Wazzani.
Last week, the Israeli military claimed that leaflets dropped on Wazzani urging residents to leave were unsanctioned.
