Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said unwelcome to UN Secretary General António Guterres and banned him from entering the country, as announced in a press release. “Anyone who cannot unequivocally condemn Iran’s atrocious attack on Israel does not deserve to set foot on Israeli soil. “This secretary general has supported terrorists, rapists and murderers, from Hamas to Hezbollah to the Houthis and now Iran,” he said.
Katz is referring to the missile attack that Iran launched Tuesday evening against Israel, which caused no casualties on Israeli soil, although many projectiles fell in the country, after being intercepted or destroyed by Israeli air defense.
Meanwhile, on the northern front, more Israeli troops on Tuesday joined units that began ground incursions into southern Lebanon yesterday, where they face resistance from militants of the Shiite group Hezbollah.
The Israeli military reported that “additional forces” joined incursions it described as “limited, localized and precise” against “terrorist” targets and Hezbollah infrastructure. That did not stop the militia from launching dozens of rockets from southern Lebanon into northern Israel, causing damage to a dozen homes in the town of Metula, according to the Israeli newspaper. Haaretz. For its part, Hezbollah claimed to have attacked “enemy troops” in the Shtula colony with two missiles, causing unspecified victims.
In addition to the bombings, Hezbollah said its men “engaged in combat against Israeli enemy infantry forces, which attempted to infiltrate the village of Adaisseh, inflicting casualties and forcing them to retreat.” Lebanese television LBC reported that there were direct clashes between Israeli troops and members of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force, and that the Israelis were eventually forced to withdraw.
Meanwhile, Israeli aircraft continued to bomb southern and eastern Lebanon – areas where Hezbollah has a strong presence – as well as the capital Beirut. The Lebanese National News Agency (ANN) reported that in the early hours of Wednesday, several southern towns were subjected to “massive attacks” by the Israelis, mainly near the coastal town of Tyre, about 20 kilometers from the border with Israel. . The Israeli army ordered the evacuation of around twenty towns near Tire and a little further north.
According to ANN, cited by the EFE agency, a Lebanese emergency services center was hit in the Dahie district, south of Beirut, but the building had been evacuated following an order from Israel for residents to leave several buildings in the southern suburbs of the capital. , the hardest hit during this offensive.
