The Israeli army said it carried out several attacks in southern Lebanon on Saturday, January 6, after Lebanese Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel. “Air force fighter jets and other IDF forces today attacked a number of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the areas of Aita al-Sha'ab, Yaron and Ramya in southern Lebanon,” the Israeli army said on the social network X.
In response to the attack that killed Hamas No. 2 Saleh al-Arouri south of Beirut on Wednesday, Hezbollah said on Saturday it fired several dozen rockets at the Meron military base in northern Israel. Follow our live stream.
Israeli attacks in the southern Gaza Strip. Israeli attacks took place early Saturday in Rafah, a city at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have sought refuge to escape the fighting, according to AFP journalists.
Gaza has become a “place of death” and “uninhabitable,” according to the UN. The Palestinian enclave, the scene of clashes between Israel and Hamas for almost three months, has become a “place of death”, the UN warns. It has “simply become uninhabitable” and its residents face “daily threats before the eyes of the world,” concluded United Nations Humanitarian Affairs Coordinator Martin Griffiths. For Unicef, the war, malnutrition and health situation in Gaza have created “a cycle of death that threatens more than 1.1 million children.”
Several diplomatic visits this weekend. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is on a regional trip to Turkey and hopes to prevent the conflict between Israel and Hamas from flaring up. In this regard, the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, will meet with officials in Lebanon this weekend.