The Israeli army carried out new attacks in Lebanonincluding Dahye, the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, just 24 hours after confirming the death of the leader of the Shiite group Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallahduring an attack on Friday against the Lebanese capital.
The Israelis also claimed to have attacked the facilities where Hezbollah has been stockpiling weapons for yearsin addition torocket shuttles directed against Israeli territory and other infrastructure. “The army carried out a precise attack in the Dahye region from Beirut. More details will follow,” Israeli forces said in a brief statement.
“The recent air attack launched in the Ghobeiry district, in the southern suburbs of Beirut they targeted a person in a residential apartment”, according to Efe.
A Lebanese security official confirmed the attack in Beirut: “We heard a loud explosion and we saw smoke leave the area. »
In the early hours of Sunday, the Israeli army had already launched other attacks which hit dozens of targets, including launchers and weapons warehouses, while its navy reported intercepting eight projectiles coming from Lebanon and one from the Red Sea.
These attacks “were the subject of a series of violent attacks“and have already caused six dead.
“Drones were heard flying over all neighborhoods of the Lebanese capital in the early hours of Sunday and during the day,” according to various sources. Reuters.
Consequences of Nasrallah’s death
The death of Nasrallah marked the end of a traumatic period two weeks for Hezbollah, which began with the detonation of thousands of devices communication used by its members. It was widely believed that Israel carried out this action, although this has not been confirmed. nor denied their involvement.
After the confirmation of the death of the Hezbollah leader, various Israeli airstrikes in Shiite militia strongholds in southern Lebanon, in the Bekaa Valley near the Syrian border, and in the southern suburbs of Beirut, killing several senior commanders of the group.
This Sunday, Israel announced that it had killed Nabil Kaouk, a prominent Hezbollah leader, whose death the group has already confirmed.
Risk of escalation
Concerns regarding the possibility of wider conflict They grew up. Israel has mobilized reserve brigades and says it is ready for all options, including the threat of a ground operation.
Hezbollah says it will cease fire on its own when the Israeli offensive on Gaza ends.
Regarding diplomatic efforts, they showed few signs of progress. Lebanese Information Minister Ziad Makary told a cabinet meeting on Sunday that efforts to a ceasefire They always went there.
American statements
The President of the United States, Joe Bidensaid on Saturday: “It’s time for a ceasefire” when asked about the possibility of an Israeli ground offensive, but He also welcomed the death of Nasrallah as a measure of justice for the victims of Hezbollah attacks.
Iran, which helped create Hezbollah in the early 1990s 1980Prominent figures mourned the death of a senior Revolutionary Guard official, assassinated along with the Shiite militia leader. Likewise, Tehran requested a meeting of the UN Security Council for Israel’s actions.
The supreme leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khameneiwas transferred to a safe place in Iran after the death of the leader, as reported by different sources in Reuters.
Hezbollah’s arsenal has long been subject of discussion in Lebanon, a country with a long history of civil conflict. Lebanese critics of Hezbollah say the group unilaterally dragged the country into conflicts and undermined the state.
However, Lebanon’s leading Christian cleric, Maronite Patriarch Bechara Boutros Al-Raideclared that the death of the Hezbollah leader had “opened a wound in the hearts of the Lebanese“, despite the fact that Rai himself has previously expressed criticism of Hezbollah, accusing it of dragging Lebanon into regional conflicts.
So far, Israel’s bombing of Lebanon They left more than a thousand dead And tens of thousands of displaced peoplewhich could reach one million, denounced today the Lebanese Minister of Foreign Affairs in statements reported by the Qatari media.
