Israel carried out a night attack on dozens of Hezbollah terrorist targets in Lebanon
Israel’s military claimed its fighter jets carried out the bombing on Monday dozens of targets of the pro-Iranian terrorist group Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Aircraft of the Israeli Air Force attacked “dozens of launchers and buildings where weapons were stored in Lebanon’s Bekaa region,” the army said in a statement released in Telegram.
He specified that the sites were linked Hezbollah.
Israel “will continue to heavily attack, damage and degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon,” he added.
Hezbollah began firing rockets at Israel a day after its Palestinian ally attacked October 7. Hamaswho started the war in Loop.
But in recent days, Israel focused its operations from Gaza on Lebanonwhere hundreds of people died and more than 200,000 were displaced in the last week.
American president Joe Biden On Sunday, he indicated that he would hold a conversation with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and believes that total war should be avoided Middle East. “We have to achieve this“Biden told reporters in Dover Air Force Base in Delaware before boarding the presidential plane Washington.
Meanwhile, smoke was still rising from the wreckage of Friday’s attack, in which Hassan Nasrallah He was killed after an Israeli secret service operation. Journalists from AP Smoke was seen rising from the wreckage as people approached the scene, some to see what was left of their homes and others to pay their respects, pray or simply witness the devastation.
As an answer to a drastic intensification of Israeli attacks on LebanonHezbollah increased its rocket fire toward Israel in the past week, from a few dozen to hundreds of projectiles per day, the Israeli armed forces said. The attacks caused a few casualties and some damage, but most of the missiles and drones were intercepted by anti-aircraft batteries Israel or fell in uninhabited areas.
The military says its strikes have reduced capabilities by Hezbollah and that “the number of starts would have been much higher had they not executed their offense”.
In another development, on Sunday, the armed forces Israel They said dozens of their planes were hit Houthi targets in Yemen in response to the recent attack against Israell. The military said it attacked factories and port facilities in the city Hodeidah.
The Houthis fired a ballistic missile at Ben Gurion Airport on Saturday as Netanyahu was flying in.. The Houthi press office noted that the Israeli strikes hit the ports Hodeidah and Ras Issatogether with two thermal power plants in Hodeidaha rebel stronghold supported Iran. He Ministry of Healthrun by the Houthis, said four people were killed and another 40 wounded as a result of the offensive.
The Houthis assured that they had taken precautionary measures and emptied oil tanks in the ports in anticipation of the attacks. Nasruddin Ammerdeputy director of the press office.
(With information from EFE and AP)