After the heavy air strikes on Lebanon, Israel’s army carried out further attacks on Hezbollah targets in the east and south of the country on Saturday.
The attacks targeted “terrorist targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah” in the eastern Bekaa region and in “several areas in southern Lebanon,” the army said. According to reports, an air alarm was triggered in northern Israel due to new rocket attacks by Hezbollah.
Hezbollah said it shelled Kibbutz Kabri in northern Israel on Saturday “with a volley of Fadi-1 rockets” to “defend Lebanon and its people and respond to the barbaric ‘Israeli attacks’ on towns, villages and civilians.” react”.
On Friday, Israel bombed, among other things, the Hezbollah headquarters in the south of Beirut. According to the Israeli army, several high-ranking militia commanders were killed.
Israeli air strikes: rubble and destruction in Lebanon
The extent of the damage from the heavy air strikes became apparent on Saturday in the southern suburbs of Beirut, which is considered a Hezbollah stronghold. Several buildings had collapsed and some were still burning on Saturday morning, as a photographer from the AFP news agency observed. Debris blocked roads.
The normally busy neighborhoods were unusually quiet. Many residents had left the area after Israeli calls for evacuation and spent part of the night outdoors. Even Lebanese army checkpoints were unmanned on Saturday morning.
According to the Israeli army, the attacks targeted Hezbollah’s arsenals of weapons stored in residential buildings. In a statement distributed by its media office, Hezbollah denied the allegations.
Around a year after the brutal attack on Israel by the radical Islamic Palestinian organization Hamas on October 7th, the conflict between Israel and the pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon is clearly escalating. Since the beginning of the week, Israel has responded to the continuous shelling by the Shiite militia since October 8th with massive air strikes in Lebanon.
Hezbollah is allied with Hamas, which triggered the war in the Gaza Strip with its unprecedented major attack on Israel. Since the beginning of the Gaza war, Hezbollah has increasingly increased its almost daily attacks on Israel.
Source: Stern
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