Beirut, December 23 (EFE). – The Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah today claimed responsibility for four attacks on various Israeli military positions on the border between the two countries, in a new day of crossfire in the last two and a half months.
In a series of statements, Hezbollah said it had attacked a deployment of Israeli soldiers near border towns such as Blida and Jal al Alam “with appropriate weapons.”
In addition, a civil defense team from the Association of Explorers of the Islamic Message survived Israeli artillery shells that landed near the association's center in the Imam al Rida complex, southeast of the city of Mays al Jabal.
The Israeli army reported in a statement that it attacked Lebanese Shiite group targets such as “infrastructure and a military complex” with artillery support last night and this morning.
The Israeli-Lebanese border is experiencing its highest peak in tensions since the 2006 war between Hezbollah and Israel, after a resurgence in aggression from pro-Palestinian militias the day after war broke out between the Islamist group Hamas and Israel in the Gaza Strip October 7th.
Yesterday, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati said that a solution to end the crossfire between the two parties would be to abide by international UN resolutions that stipulate Israeli withdrawal from the Cheba farms and the hills of Kfar Chouba, i.e. Israeli ones Areas that Lebanon claims as its own.
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701, which ended a war between Israel and Hezbollah in 2006, called for the withdrawal of armed personnel south of Lebanon's Litani River, excluding U.N. peacekeepers, the Lebanese army and state security forces. EFE
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