Hezbollah ambushes stall Israeli ground offensive at Odaisseh
What Hezbollah is saying is that there are fierce clashes going on in Odaisseh.
Odaisseh is very, very key because it is one of the entry points for Israeli forces to get on the ground in southern Lebanon. But it is also one of the choke points for Hezbollah.
What Hezbollah is doing is allowing Israeli forces to come slightly further in, get into grounds that they are not really that familiar with, and then ambush them. Hezbollah said they are pushing them back. They did this a couple of days ago in exactly this position. So the Israeli army was expecting this time to have a fight.
What the Israelis are trying to do is destroy Hezbollah’s infrastructure directly on the border. Stuff they cannot hit through the aerial bombardment campaign. But every time they try and do this … either they get pushed back or they get ambushed with improvised explosive devices and take casualties and fatalities.
That’s what we’ve been seeing. No real entry point is safe for the Israelis now. Hezbollah, on the ground, like we predicted, has the upper hand.
New Israeli air strikes target Beirut suburbs
We’re getting reports of new Israeli air strikes on the Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.
Our colleagues on the ground are reporting plumes of smoke rising from the site of the attack.
Sound of Israeli blasts in Beirut heard as far away as Sidon
There were several Israeli air strikes during the night that targeted buildings across Beirut’s southern suburbs. There is no information yet on casualties.
There were several warnings from the Israeli army spokesperson, and then very big explosions were heard across Beirut, the capital, and the southern suburbs. The attacks were out in the southern suburbs but the sounds were huge and some of the sounds actually reached the city of Sidon, which is 40 kilometres (25 miles) away.
These continuous attacks on Beirut’s south are not stopping. It seems that every night there is a new batch of attacks.
On the other side, we have heard nothing yet from Hezbollah on the fate of its executive council head Hashem Safieddine after the Israel strike the day before yesterday.
At least one killed in latest Israeli air strikes on Lebanon
A school director has been confirmed killed in Lebanon as the Israeli military continues hitting multiple areas.
The director of Al-Abrar School in the town of al-Rafid in the Bekaa governorate was killed after Israeli aircraft targeted his home at dawn, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency.
It said civil defence teams are also working to open a road connecting the towns of Shuhour and Saraifa after it was targeted in an air raid.
Another attack took place on the Burj al-Barajneh area, while Israeli drones are now flying over Beirut and its southern suburbs at low altitudes, it reported.