2023-10-30 09:46:28
The border between Israel and Lebanon is once once more under high tension following new shootings announced Sunday by armed groups, including Palestinian Hamas and the powerful Hezbollah, followed by an infiltration attempt by Islamic Jihad.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, the “al-Quds Brigades“, the military branch of Palestinian Islamic Jihad, whose fighters are present in Lebanon, announced on their Telegram channel that two of their members were killed in Hanita in northern Israel following managing to “cross the security barrier“separating Lebanon from Israel and”confront the enemy“Israeli.
The Israeli army said Monday it had struck several targets in Syria in response to rocket fire. “A combat aircraft recently attacked the launchers from which the shots were fired from Syrian territory towards Israeli territory yesterday evening“, the Israeli army said on X (formerly Twitter).
She had reported a few hours earlier of several rocket attacks falling in an “open area”. According to Israeli public radio Kan, the sites struck are in the Deraa region of southern Syria and are linked to Iran’s allies.
Since October 7, the date of the bloody Hamas attack in Israel, the Israeli air force has carried out several raids in Syria, targeting in particular the airports of Aleppo and Damascus.
Tensions are also high on the Israeli-Lebanese border, where exchanges of fire are almost daily between the Israeli army and pro-Palestinian armed groups, including the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, said on Sunday that it had shot down an Israeli drone over Israeli territory with a surface-to-air missile and announced the death of one of its fighters. The Israeli army, for its part, reported new shots coming from Lebanon towards the area of Har Dov and Kiryat Shmona and said it had responded.
Israel has carried out hundreds of airstrikes on Syrian territory since the start of the war there in 2011.
Its air force notably targeted forces supported by Iran and Lebanese Hezbollah as well as the Syrian army.
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