Israel Bombs Hezbollah Military Building in Southern Lebanon: Latest Updates and Tensions at the Border

Israel Bombs Hezbollah Military Building in Southern Lebanon: Latest Updates and Tensions at the Border

2024-04-19 21:08:18

Israel bombed a Hezbollah military building in southern Lebanon

The Army of Israel carried out this Friday a new bombing once morest a “military building” of the Shiite party-militia Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, within the framework of the clashes that have broken out in the border area since the attacks carried out on October 7 by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) “identified terrorists who were in a Hezbollah military building in the Aita al Shaab area, in southern Lebanon.” “An Air Force device attacked the building and the terrorists who were inside,” the Army added in a statement.

Hezbollah published a brief statement confirming the death of one of its members, identified as Muhamad Hassan al Sayid, although he has not specified when or where he would have died. “He ascended as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem,” he stressed, referring to the fact that he died in the context of the fighting with Israel following the Hamas attacks.

An Israeli military helicopter flies over Israel’s northern border with Lebanon (EFE/EPA/ATEF SAFADI/File)

On the other hand, the Israeli Army confirmed on Thursday that it had killed two Hezbollah militiamen in the Kfarkela area, in southern Lebanon, according to a military statement.

In the note, Israeli troops assured that their fighter jets also attacked a “series of terrorist infrastructure” of the Lebanese group located in the Khiam area, near the country’s southern border. “Our soldiers fired in that area to eliminate an imminent threat,” they added in the statement.

Additionally, during Thursday followingnoon Israel launched several airstrikes in the Baalbek area, northern Lebanon where, as they stated in a statement, there were “terrorist objectives” of the Shiite militia.

These Israeli attacks came following On Wednesday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for bombings once morest a community center located in an Israeli village bordering Lebanon., which left at least 18 injured, including 14 soldiers. According to the Israeli newspaper Haaretzone of the uniformed men is in critical condition.

Magen emergency coordinator David Adom detailed to the agency EFEthat when members of the emergency teams were in the area tending to the injured, new attacks occurred.

Debris covers the floor of a damaged community center in northern Israel (REUTERS/Hannah McKay)

Hezbollah, which claimed responsibility for these bombings, assured that its actions were once morest a military reconnaissance center in response to two Israeli attacks that on Tuesday killed three members of the group in separate areas of southern Lebanon.

The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing its highest peak of tension since 2006 with an intense exchange of fire for more than five months which has claimed the lives of at least 382 people, most on the Lebanese side and in the ranks of Hezbollah, which has confirmed 257 militia casualties, some in Syria.

In Israel, 18 people have died in the north (10 soldiers and 8 civilians); while on the other side of the border at least 364 people have died, including 46 members of other militias, a Lebanese soldier and 60 civilians, in addition to Hezbollah fighters.

(With information from EFE and EuropaPress)

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