As fighting escalated for a second straight day along Lebanon’s southern border, a group said Lebanese Hezbollah Today, Thursday (June 13, 2024), nine Israeli military bases were attacked by armed missiles and drones.
The attacks came in response to an Israeli attack on Tuesday that resulted in one death Abu Talib Abdullah A senior field commander in Hezbollah, he is considered the most prominent figure to have been killed by Israeli fire since the start of the cross-border bombardment.
A security source from Lebanon said it was the biggest attack by Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah, which opened fire parallel to Israel. Gaza War.
Thursday’s attack came after Hezbollah carried out a similar series of attacks on Wednesday, including firing more than 150 missiles at Israeli bases held by the party. In response to the killing of Abdullah with three fighters accompanying him.
In a statement on Thursday afternoon, it announced that its members targeted the Israeli “Mishar” base and “Katsawiya Barracks” with offensive marches for the second time, in response to the massacre by Israel in the town of “Zoya”. Two days ago in southern Lebanon. He launched “several offensive marches” on the Northern Command’s headquarters, intelligence headquarters and Israeli military camps.
A barrage of Katyusha and Falak rockets hit six Israeli military bases, the group said in its report. Hezbollah’s al-Manar channel reported that more than 100 missiles were fired simultaneously.
A security source told Reuters that at least 30 drones were launched simultaneously in the attack, Hezbollah’s biggest drone strike in the eight-month war.
Israel responds
Sirens sounded in cities in northern Israel on Thursday, warning of airstrikes. Israeli officials said about 40 missiles were fired from Lebanon this afternoon. The Israel Broadcasting Authority (KAN) showed footage of aerial missiles intercepting Israeli towns, including Safed, about 12 kilometers from the border.
The Israeli National Ambulance Service said two people were wounded by shrapnel.
And it bombed Israeli forces This afternoon, the “Hay Quarter” area on the outskirts of the city of “Kfarshouba” in South Lebanon was hit by mortar shells.
This afternoon, Israeli warplanes carried out 3 strikes targeting the outskirts of the city of Deir Sarayan in southern Lebanon, and Israeli artillery bombarded the outskirts of the aforementioned city with phosphorus bombs, reported the Hezbollah-affiliated al-Win correspondent. Manar Channel.
Israeli warplanes launched a series of airstrikes targeting the suburbs of “Marjayon”, “Al-Qusayr” and “Al-Qatrani” towns in the south. Lebanon.
Israeli military spokesman David Menser confirmed during a press conference that “Israel will respond with force to all attacks carried out by Hezbollah.” He also said that “Israel will restore security on our northern border through diplomatic efforts or otherwise.”
Within eight months Mutual bombing between Israel and HezbollahAt least 468 people in Lebanon died as a result of the escalation, including at least 307 Hezbollah members and about 90 civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse count based on Hezbollah data and official Lebanese sources.
The Israeli side, for its part, reported 15 soldiers and 11 civilians killed.
The fighting displaced tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
G7 leaders meeting in Italy expressed deep concern over the situation on the Israel-Lebanon border in a draft statement.
Many countries consider Lebanon’s Hezbollah, or its military wing, a terrorist organization. These countries include the United States, the European Union, Britain and most of the member states of the League of Arab States. Germany also banned the party’s activity on its territory in 2020 and classified it as a “terrorist organization”.
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South Lebanon: Displaced people, those refusing to leave and the most critical victims are children
The number of displaced people is increasing daily from the villages of southern Lebanon to the towns and villages north and south of the Litani River. A part of the population of the border villages refused to leave, while others were displaced under difficult conditions and waited for a date to return home.
She took a corner under the shadow of a car, at the center of displacement in the tyre. Even though her face is silent, it says a lot. She smiles and hides many details and perhaps questions that seek answers. Young people are the most affected by displacement, being far from home and living in difficult conditions.
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Ali… a Syrian refugee
Little Ali is a Syrian refugee from the war in his country to southern Lebanon. He never left the city of Bint Jabeel with his family. Intermittent journeys of asylum and migration. From war to conflict zones. According to government estimates, 1.5 million Syrian refugees live in the country.
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Zainab lives with her family in a house in an olive field in the town of Majdal Salam, near the Israeli border. She still goes to school. Despite the exchange of bombardment between the Israeli army, Palestinian factions and Lebanese Hezbollah, Zainab and her family decided to stay and her kittens went with them into the field.
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Roti and Manaish
Many shops and shop owners have closed their shops in Bint Jabeel. Some decided not to leave and stayed. Despite the roar of bombers and warplanes, some still live in a town separated from the border by a nearby mountain.
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Shisha despite the circumstances
One of those who refused to leave Bint Jabeel was a man facing the mountain that separates Lebanon and Israel. He insists on waiting for developments in the situation in light of the tension on the border between Lebanon and Israel and the incessant exchange of fire and missiles between the Israeli army and Hezbollah since the conflict between Hamas and Israel began on October 7.
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Awaiting developments
Gaza, people spread news of rockets falling everywhere. One of them says: “As long as the conflict is limited, we will not leave our land.” Although many of them have relatives in Sidon or Beirut. Many countries consider Lebanon’s Hezbollah, or its military wing, a terrorist organization. These countries include the United States, the European Union, Britain and most Arab countries. Germany also banned the party’s activity on its territory in 2020 and classified it as a “terrorist organization”.
More than 16 thousand people migrated from the south arrived in Tire city alone. Some of them took refuge in school buildings and universities in the city. In this situation these youth and their families have no schools after leaving their homes.
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A university turned dormitory
Living conditions in the university building in Tire city, which has been turned into a shelter for displaced people for more than a month, are difficult. They are waiting for more help to arrive and their living conditions to improve. Several schools in the southern city of Tire and its district were designated to receive the displaced, after they stopped teaching, and their student population is estimated at more than two thousand Lebanese and Syrian students.
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Halls became dormitories
This boy, along with his sister, other sisters and his parents, all live in one room (school classroom). Tensions are still confined to the border villages and areas south of the Litani River, and tensions are rife starting from the city of Tire in the north and the city of Nabati in the east.
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Waiting for help
The International Organization for Migration has warned that migration into Lebanon will “overwhelm an already fragile health system”, especially as it faces severe shortages of resources, including medicines. An official from Tire municipalities told DW Arabia that displacements are increasing as tensions rise. Produced by: W.N
