The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah this Wednesday claimed responsibility for three new attacks on Israeli targets in northern Israel, continuing the crossfire of the past three weeks.
Around midday, militants from the Shiite group launched their first attack on a facility near the border town of Blida, prompting “direct attacks from the Israeli side,” according to several Hezbollah statements.
On Wednesday afternoon, they fired “artillery shells and rockets” at the headquarters of the “new Zarit battalion”, where the Israeli army was “concentrating its equipment and forces”, in Hallet Ward, causing casualties, although the number was not specified. .
According to Hezbollah, a few hours later the town of Hadab al-Bustan came under artillery fire.
On the other hand, the Lebanese News Agency (ANN) reported this Wednesday that Israel carried out three more attacks in southern Lebanon.
Following the Israeli intervention in the Gaza Strip, clashes along the border intensified into an almost continuous exchange of rockets and explosions, killing 49 people within the Shiite faction and some 29,000 internally displaced people from the Gaza Strip alone. side.
Since the 8th of this month, one day after the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist group Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah and Israeli troops have been involved in intense crossfire in border areas where there have also been reported activities by Palestinian factions. present in Lebanon.
The escalating border tensions, the highest since 2006, have killed at least 71 people: eight in Israel – seven soldiers and one civilian – and at least 63 in Lebanon, including eight civilians, including a Reuters cameraman , 49 Hezbollah members and six Palestinian militia members.