Hezbollah claims three more attacks on Israeli positions
The Lebanese armed group said it launched rockets and missiles at Israeli artillery positions in Dishon and Dalton in northern Israel. The group also claimed a missile attack on Israeli troops in the vicinity of Yaroun, a Lebanese village along the border with Israel.
Earlier, an Al Jazeera correspondent reported that rockets were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israeli sites in the Upper Galilee.
Israel says it killed senior Hezbollah commander in Beirut
The Israeli military has said it killed Suhail Hussein Husseini, the commander of Hezbollah’s headquarters, in an attack on Beirut on Monday. It said Husseini was responsible for transferring weapons from Iran and distributing the arms to Hezbollah’s various units.
Husseini was also “involved in the budgeting and logical management of the most sensitive projects of the organisation, including the operational plan for war,” it added.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
New Israeli drone strikes on Beirut’s Dahiyeh
We are hearing reports of new drone strikes launched by Israel targeting the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh.
There was a barrage of Israeli air strikes overnight. The Israelis said they were targeting a Hezbollah commander. Once again, the Israelis are keeping up with the intense pressure in one of the most densely populated parts of the country.
It is also worth pointing out while a lot of people have left Dahiyeh, there are a lot more who simply stayed because they do not have the resources to be able to move.
In southern Lebanon, about 130 towns and villages have been ordered to evacuate by the Israeli military. It’s got people worried because they’re wondering what the definition of Israel’s “limited” ground offensive is.
They’re hearing about the mass staging of troops on the Israeli side of the border, reserves being brought up. And just in the last few hours, Hezbollah says it’s hit Israeli soldiers.
EU’s Borrell says situation in Lebanon is getting worse by the day
The bloc’s foreign policy chief has renewed his call for a ceasefire in Lebanon in an address to the European Parliament. Some 20 percent of the Lebanese population had been displaced by the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, he said.
The Lebanese government estimates that more than one million people have so far been displaced.
