Meanwhile, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced the killing of 3 people and the injury of 3 others in Israeli raids in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army announced that it launched a preemptive attack, at dawn on Sunday, with the aim of removing threats to the Lebanese factions’ movement after observing their preparation to launch shells and missiles towards Israel.
A correspondent in Lebanon said that Israeli warplanes launched more than 40 air strikes targeting a number of villages and towns in southern Lebanon, and the Israeli army confirmed that 100 warplanes participated in the attack.
While information indicated that the factions’ movement was responding to the Israeli raids by launching intensive barrages of missiles, it became clear that the party was about to carry out an attack in response to the assassination of one of its most prominent leaders, Fouad Shukr, who was killed in an Israeli air raid on the southern suburbs of Beirut at the end of last month.
The factions movement said in successive statements that it launched an air attack towards a qualitative Israeli military target in Israel, in response to the assassination of Shukr.
The factions movement announced that it launched 320 rockets in the first phase of the attack to facilitate the passage of the offensive marches towards their target, targeting 11 Israeli sites and barracks, stressing that its marches passed as scheduled.
Later, the factions movement denied in a statement the Israeli allegations of thwarting its military operations, stressing that they contradict the facts on the ground.
The factions’ movement confirmed that “all offensive marches crossed towards the desired target, and thus our military operation for today has been completed and accomplished.”
The factions movement has not yet mentioned the target of its operation, but the “Ynet” website noted that “among the targets of the factions movement in the attack was the Galileot area, where the Mossad headquarters and the 8200 military espionage base of the Israeli army are located.”
It is noteworthy that the Galilee area is more than 100 km from the Lebanese border, and is located north of Tel Aviv.
Source: RT
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2024-08-25 21:18:05
