For the fourth consecutive day, the Israeli army carried out dozens of attacks in Lebanon on Thursday, September 26, targeting Hezbollah. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, these raids left 92 dead and 153 injured in the country. The Jewish state has rejected an international call for a truce in the Land of the Cedar.
The Israeli military also announced that it had intercepted a missile launched overnight from Thursday to Friday from Yemen, adding that “Sirens and explosions were heard later [son] interception and fall of shrapnel ».
As of Thursday, Israel said it had struck 75 Hezbollah military targets in southern and eastern Lebanon. The Jewish state announced in the afternoon that it was carrying out new attacks against the pro-Iran group in the south of the country. The Israeli army reported dozens of “projectiles” fired on Thursday from Lebanon towards Israel, and Hezbollah claimed, for its part, to have fired a hundred rockets against the cities of Safed and Haifa, in the north of the Hebrew State.
The Israeli army also announced on Thursday “precise hits” in Beirut, claiming to have killed the head of Hezbollah’s drone unit, Mohammed Srour. The Shiite movement confirmed his death in the afternoon.
Macron points finger at Netanyahu
These attacks occur a day after a call launched by France and the United States, joined by Arab and Western countries, for a “immediate twenty-one day ceasefire” For “Give diplomacy a chance”request reiterated on Thursday from the podium of the UN General Assembly by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
But Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assured that the army will continue its fight against Hezbollah. “with all the necessary force”. His Foreign Minister, Israel Katz, said he would continue “until victory” and what would there be “There is no ceasefire in the North”.
Two far-right ministers, Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben Gvir, also rejected the idea of a ceasefire. “The campaign in the North must end in only one way: crushing Hezbollah”according to Smotrich. Ben Gvir threatened to boycott government work if a temporary ceasefire was signed in Lebanon.
Washington assured that the call for a truce had been launched “in coordination” with Israel. French President Emmanuel Macron estimated that it would be “a fault” by Mr. Netanyahu to reject the proposed ceasefire and that the Israeli Prime Minister would take ” responsibility “ of a regional escalation, rejecting it. Macron assured that the proposal had been “prepared, negotiated with the Prime Minister [israélien] and their teams, both for the Americans and for ourselves”.
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with Ron Dermer, Israeli Minister of Strategic Affairs, for a meeting on this international ceasefire proposal. “He emphasized again that an escalation will make it more difficult for Israeli and Lebanese citizens to return to their homes.”said his spokesman, Matthew Miller, about “total war” WHO “It would be devastating for Israel and Lebanon”believing that a ceasefire would also allow a truce agreement to be concluded in Gaza.
At the same time, the Israeli Ministry of Defense announced a new US military aid package worth 8.7 billion dollars (7.8 billion euros). “in support of Israel’s current military effort”.
More than 1,500 dead in Lebanon in almost a year
The cross-border fire has increased in intensity since the wave of deadly explosions of Hezbollah transmission devices, attributed to Israel, on September 17 and 18 in Lebanon, and then an Israeli attack on September 20 in the southern suburbs of Beirut that beheaded the elite unit of the Shiite movement. In almost a year, this violence has caused the death of 1,540 people in the Cedar Country, Lebanese authorities announced Thursday. According to the Israeli government, 9,360 rockets and missiles have been fired at Israel in almost a year.
Since Monday, the Israeli army claims to have attacked “more than 2,000 objectives” of Hezbollah. These bombings, which left more than 700 dead, including many civilians, threw more than 90,000 people onto Lebanon’s roads, according to the UN. According to Beirut, more than 31,000 of them have entered Syria.
Meanwhile, Israel also continues its offensive in the Gaza Strip, where the civil defense announced on Thursday the death of fifteen people in an Israeli attack against a school hosting displaced people in the Jabaliya camp, north of the Palestinian enclave.
