2024-03-03 00:58:49
Israel’s military says it has again attacked positions of the Iranian-backed Hezbollah militia in southern Lebanon. Warplanes hit two Shiite militia military installations in the Labuneh area and another installation in the Ramyah area, the army said on Saturday evening. In the past 48 hours, the army has killed “a total of ten terrorists,” including a commander, said Israel’s army spokesman Daniel Hagari.
According to the military, Israel’s air force hit a car carrying Hezbollah members in southern Lebanon earlier in the day. It was said that “several terrorists” were traveling in the vehicle and had fired rockets into Israeli territory. The Israeli military’s information could not initially be independently verified.
Hezbollah initially announced on Saturday that six of its members had been killed in Israeli attacks. The militia also reported that it had shelled an Israeli barracks near the town of Liman and Israeli soldiers near the common border. This information could not initially be independently verified. There were initially no reports of possible victims in Israel.
Since the beginning of the Gaza war following the massacre by Hezbollah-allied Hamas and other extremist groups in Israel on October 7 last year, there has been repeated shelling in the Israeli-Lebanese border region. There were already deaths on both sides. Tens of thousands of residents in both countries left their homes because of the fighting.
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant recently announced that he would increase military pressure on Hezbollah in response to its daily attacks on Israel until the militia withdrew from the border. The Shiite militia has established itself in the buffer zone that was established in the border area in southern Lebanon after the end of the second Lebanon war in 2006 and is firing from there into northern Israel. Israel wants to use diplomatic pressure to ensure that the militia withdraws behind the Litani River, 30 kilometers from the border – as stipulated by UN Resolution 1701. If necessary, Israel is ready for a major military operation, Galant warned. However, Hezbollah is considered more powerful than Hamas.
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