The Israeli army has announced further attacks on Hezbollah targets in eastern Lebanon. 300 have already been attacked.
Israel’s armed forces announced further air strikes on sites of the Shiite Hezbollah militia in eastern Lebanon on Monday. “We are preparing for a large-scale and targeted attack in the Bekaa Valley,” army spokesman Daniel Hagari told journalists. Residents should “move away” from Hezbollah militia weapons depots for their “protection” and “security.”
“Hezbollah stores its strategic weapons in civilian buildings and uses the population as human shields,” Hagari explained. “There are rockets and drones in the houses in the Bekaa Valley.” The Israeli army now wants to “attack these before they pose a threat to the people of Israel.”
The Israeli army announced on Monday that it would carry out “more extensive and precise attacks against terror targets spread throughout Lebanon.” According to its own statements, it had already attacked more than 300 Hezbollah targets on Monday.
100 dead from attacks in Lebanon in one day
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, 100 people were killed and more than 400 others injured. This was the highest number of deaths and injuries in Israeli attacks on Hezbollah in a single day since the conflict escalated almost a year ago during the Gaza war between Israel and Hamas. Hospitals in the south and east of the country switched to emergency mode: Following an order from the Ministry of Health, all non-urgent operations were cancelled.
The conflict between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah has escalated significantly in recent days. In an air strike in Beirut, the Israeli army killed several high-ranking Hezbollah commanders and also announced the destruction of thousands of rocket launchers in southern Lebanon. The Hezbollah militia, for its part, expanded its attacks to northern Israel over the weekend.
Israel continues to bombard targets in Lebanon – fronts harden
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Even before the killing of the Hezbollah commanders and the violent mutual attacks at the weekend, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah had escalated due to the explosions of hundreds of the militia’s pagers and walkie-talkies in Lebanon. Hezbollah blames Israel for the explosions. Israel itself has not commented on the authorship of the explosions, which killed 39 people and injured around 3,000 others.
Source: Stern
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