Israeli army will attack Hezbollah ‘without respite’: Army chief
Herzi Halevi, chief of the Israeli army’s general staff, has promised that there will be no let-up in the military’s attacks against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
“We must continue to apply pressure on Hezbollah and do additional and continual damage to the enemy, without concessions and without respite”, Lieutenant-General Halevi said in a statement.
Hezbollah says targets north Israel ‘military industries’ firm
Hezbollah says it launched rockets at a defence company in northern Israel, the latest attacks after Israel intensified its bombing campaign last week.
The Iran-backed group said in a statement that it launched “a rocket salvo” towards a “military industries company” east of Acre.
Hezbollah calls media reports ‘worthless rumors’
Hezbollah’s media office has issued a statement saying reports citing sources within the group regarding “the fate of Hezbollah officials” are “worthless rumors”.
The group stressed that only statements issued by their media office are valid.
Hezbollah’s comments came after media organisations, including Al Jazeera, cited security sources within the group saying that it had lost contact with deputy chief Hashem Safieddine since a heavy Israeli strike on Friday on the southern suburbs of Beirut.
It was not clear whether the group was referring to this report.
Israeli army destroys much of Hezbollah arsenal: Netanyahu
The Israel army has managed to destroy a large part of Hezbollah’s arsenal and to turn the tide of the war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said.
Israeli soldiers are also destroying the group’s tunnels close to the border between Israel and Lebanon, Netanyahu said in a televised address. “Although we have not yet completed the removal of the threat, we have clearly changed the course of the war and the balance of the war,” he added.
Israel’s stated aim is to allow the return of tens of thousands of Israeli civilians to their houses in the country’s north. To do so, Israel has shifted its focus from fighting in Gaza to its northern border launching a brutal bombing campaign across Lebanon and a ground incursion into the Lebanese south.
To date, Isreal’s attacks on Lebanon have killed more than 2,000 people, by the Lebanese Health Ministry’s count.
Hezbollah continues attacks on Isreal
In a statement released on its official Telegram channel, the Lebanese group says it carried out its 15th attack of the day on Israel. It said that it targeted a “gathering of Israeli enemy soldiers” at the “Jal al-Deir site” of the Israeli army with a rocket salvo.
Earlier, the Israeli army said that more than 100 projectiles have been fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory today.
