Israel is carrying out retaliatory attacks on Lebanon after a rocket bomb fell on a soccer field in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights last Saturday, killing 12 children and teenagers.
The Israeli Defense Cabinet, which met late Sunday, authorized Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government to decide the method and timing of a retaliatory attack on Lebanon.
Israel and the United States have accused Lebanon’s Hezbollah of carrying out the attack, which the organization has denied.
Israel’s largest newspaper, Yedioth Ahranod, cited unnamed officials as saying that while it is not certain what action Israel will take, it will be “limited but significant.”
This could include limited attacks on bridges, power plants and ports, to Hezbollah weapons depots or high-level Hezbollah commanders, the press release said.
Two people were killed and three others, including a child, were injured in an Israeli drone strike outside the southern Lebanese city of Shakra yesterday, the Lebanese Civil Service said. These are the first casualties in Lebanon since the Golan Heights attack.
Israel’s military said its air defense system shot down a drone from Lebanon in the Western Galilee.
Reports from Beirut International Airport indicate that flights are being canceled or delayed due to fears of an Israeli retaliatory attack.
Hezbollah is reportedly repositioning its positions in Lebanon and Syria in the face of an Israeli counterattack. “Hezbollah has withdrawn from some positions in the south and (east) Bekaa Valley that it believes could be targeted by Israel,” AFP quoted a source close to the group as saying. Reported.
At the same time, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that pro-Iranian groups and Hezbollah-linked fighters were leaving areas south of the Syrian capital Damascus and surrounding areas, as well as the Syrian-controlled Golan Heights, in anticipation of Israeli airstrikes.
Hezbollah and Israel have been fighting each other since the outbreak of war in Gaza last October, but have avoided a full-scale war.
US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, who has stated that he does not want a war on Israel’s northern border, has once again emphasized US support for Israel.
Recurrent discharge
Meanwhile, in the southern Gaza cities of Khan Younis and Rabah, reports from the Gaza Strip indicate fierce clashes with Palestinian militants as Israeli troops and tanks advance, aided by airstrikes.
In particular, the Israeli army, which ordered the evacuation of civilians from Khan Yunis a week ago, has been carrying out intense attacks there. Residents reported advancing tanks in Al Qarr, Al Sanna and Bani Suhaila areas east of Khan Yunis. At least 34 people have been killed in Israeli strikes in the past 24 hours, medical sources said yesterday.
The Israeli army is advancing towards the eastern part of the city of Raba, which borders Egypt and is still not under Israeli control. The Israeli army has stated that it is conducting an investigation after the release of a video of Israeli forces blowing up Raba’s main water tank.
In this case, after Israel ordered people to leave the two refugee camps in central Gaza last Sunday, the people there, including children, are leaving in droves carrying their belongings.
86 percent of Gaza is currently under Israeli evacuation orders, according to the UN Refugee Agency. The company mentioned. It is worth noting that most of the people leaving are those who have been evacuated several times since the war broke out last October.
Philippe Lazzarini, head of the UN Office for Palestine Refugees in the Near East, said these expulsion orders would increase the suffering of Palestinians.
‘People often pack up what they can muster and start leaving again within hours. It’s mostly pavement or donkey carts filled with as many people as they can afford,’ he posted on the X social media site.
In the past 24 hours, the Palestinian Ministry of Health reported that 39 people were killed and 93 others were injured in Gaza. This brings the number of Palestinians killed in Gaza to 39,363 and another 90,923 injured.
