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Hezbollah uses IEDs to thwart Israeli incursion: Monitors
While Hezbollah reports that ambushes and improvised explosive devices (IEDS) have blunted Israel’s ground offensive into southern Lebanon this week, an Israeli military correspondent blamed the slow going on Lebanon’s topography, war monitors report.
According to US-based think tanks the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) and the Critical Threats Project (CTP), the correspondent reported that the Israeli military’s push into southern Lebanon had been “relatively slow” due to the hilly and rough terrain”.
Hezbollah said that its attacks have stalled Israel’s cross-border incursion, including targeting Israeli forces with three IEDs (improvised explosive devices) around the village of Maroun al-Ras, located some 500 metres from the border with Israel, on Friday. The IEDS were planted along paths that Hezbollah expected Israeli troops to pass, according to the latest ISW-CTP report.
Hezbollah also carried out at least 14 attacks on locations in northern Israel between Thursday and Friday, including one barrage of about 70 rockets and a second of about 40 rockets. Antitank missile fire also targeted Israeli armour on the border, the ISW-CTP reports.
Latest Israeli air strike hit near Beirut’s airport
We are in the southern suburb of Beirut. The latest Israeli hit on the area is very close to the Rafic Hariri International Airport, Lebanon’s only international airport.
This attack took place in the last few hours and it’s in the same area where Israel hit a couple of days ago and claimed to target one of Hezbollah’s top leaders, Hashem Safieddine. For now, there’s no word from Hezbollah on the fate of the head of its executive council.
This attack took place without warning. These strikes were around a complex where Hezbollah used to hold their ceremonies. It’s not the exact location, but the smoke is rising from nearby areas.
It’s a residential area and it’s crowded, home to 700,000 people, most of whom have now left. But there are people who decided to stay, because either they don’t have the resources to leave or they don’t want to go into a cycle of displacement.
Israeli army strikes mosque in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military has struck a mosque beside a hospital in south Lebanon, adding to a growing list of civilian infrastructure it has targeted in the country.
The Salah Ghandour Hospital said nine of its medical and nursing staff were wounded by heavy strikes, most of them seriously, after it received an Israeli warning to evacuate.
The Israeli military claimed Hezbollah fighters were present inside the mosque when it was targeted but no evidence has been given.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that the grounds of the hospital in the southern town of Bint Jbeil were “subjected to Israeli shelling”.
AFP news agency reported the hospital director as saying that it took a direct hit and was evacuated.
Hezbollah claims direct hit on Israeli tank
Hezbollah said its fighters used a guided anti-armour missile to hit an Israeli Merkava tank as it was advancing in the Maroun Forest area, resulting in casualties.
Hezbollah has claimed seven attacks on Israeli forces so far today as they try to expand a ground invasion of Lebanon, with the latest using a salvo of Fadi-1 rockets to hit the Ramat David military base near the northern city of Haifa, about 45km (30 miles) from the Lebanese border.
The group also said its fighters launched multiple barrages of rockets to target Israeli soldiers near the border.
