This Saturday, the Israeli army bombed the southern suburbs of Beirut after reaching a mosque in a town near the border on Friday evening. As the Shiite militia Hezbollah launched dozens of rockets against towns in northern Israel during another day of Clashes during which Israel announced the death of two Hamas officials on Lebanese territory.
“We must continue to put pressure on Hezbollah and cause further and continued damage to the enemy, without concessions and without giving any respite to the organization,” IDF Chief of General Staff Herzi Halevi said in statements released by the Israeli armed forces The statement was made after Saturday’s bombings and Friday night’s attacks on what the army identified as “weapons warehousescommand posts and additional terrorist infrastructure”, and in which the mosque located next to Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil was hit, approximately five kilometers from the border.
“The command center was used by Hezbollah terrorists to plan and execute attacks against army troops and the State of Israel,” the Israeli armed forces said in a statement. The Israeli army, which on Saturday again issued an evacuation order for localities in southern Lebanon, said it had warned residents and maintained contacts with senior officials in several localities to identify what Hezbollah “used hospitals” to work.
At least 25 dead, including two senior Hamas officials
The Department of Public Health reported this Friday that at least 25 people died and 127 others were injured in the campaign of Israeli attacks against the towns and villages of Nabatieh (south), Bekaa (east), Baalbek-Hermel (northeast), Mount Lebanon (center) and the capital Beirut. On the other hand, Israel announced the death of two senior Hamas officials in two separate attacksone of them in Tripolithe first carried out by Hebrew forces against this predominantly Sunni city since the 2006 war.
The dead are Muhammad Hussein Ali al-Mahmudmember of the executive branch of Hamas in the Levantine country, in an attack about which no further information has been disclosed; And Said Alaa Naif Alisenior leader of the Al Qasam brigades, in the bombing of Tripoli during which three of his relatives also died.
For its part, Hezbollah assured that it had responded in the early hours of the morning to a “attempted breakthrough” Israeli troops in the town of Oddaisseh, on the southern border of Lebanon, where, a few hours earlier, it had already reported another infiltration attempt repelled by an attack which provoked “a massive explosion“causing, adds the militia, losses in its ranks.
He also reported an attack on a tank with a guided missile in Lebanese territory causing “dead and injured“among the occupiers. On Saturday, Hezbollah returned launch dozens of rockets against northern Israelwhere the alarms kept ringing all day. One of the towns affected was Deir al Asad, about 20 kilometers from Israel’s northern border, causing three minor injuriesaccording to the newspaper The time of Israel.
Since the start of hostilities, Israeli attacks in the south, Becá Valley and the capital, Beirut, killed nearly 2,000 people and forced 1.2 million people to leave their homes, mainly in the south and east of the Mediterranean country.
Israel prepares “serious and meaningful” response
The head of U.S. Central Command, Gen. Michael Erik Kurilla, arrived in Israel on Saturday to help coordinate the Jewish state’s response to Tuesday’s Iranian attack, a visit that comes at a time where Israel prepare a “serious and meaningful” response to the massive missile attack by the Islamic Republic.
Last Tuesday, 180 ballistic missiles launched by Iran hit Israel in a massive attack that triggered air raid sirens across the country and forced millions to seek refuge in a few minutes, and which caused a fatal victim. Iranian Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad assured Saturday that he was not worried about a possible Israeli bombing of the country’s oil facilities in retaliation for the Iranian missile attack on Israel on Tuesday.
“We are not worried about the crises created by the enemies of the revolution,” Paknejad told reporters during a visit to the town of Asaluye in the southern province of Bushehr, where a large portion of the country’s refineries and petrochemical complexes are locatedas reported by the Shana agency. Following his visit to Lebanon on Friday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on Saturday to discuss how to “end Israeli aggression” and “the importance of providing support and assistance to the Lebanese brothers in light of the great displacements caused by Israeli aggression”, according to a press release from the Syrian presidency.
