Clouds of smoke rise from Lebanon's Bekaa Valley as sources in Lebanon reported Israeli airstrikes killed at least two Hezbollah members (Portal)
This was announced by the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah fired 60 rockets at an Israeli army barracks in response to the bombing this Monday in the Bekaa Valley, an important stronghold of the armed movement in eastern Lebanon that was never attacked during the current clashes.
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“In response to the Zionist aggression near the town of Baalbek in the Bekaa region (…), the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance attacked the headquarters of the Golan Division in Nafah with 60 'Katyusha' rockets,” he explained. Hezbollah in a statement.
The Israeli planes had bombed two different points this morning a few kilometers from the tourist town of Baalbek, in their first attack on this region since hostilities began between the two actors more than four months ago.
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A source close to Hezbollah confirmed this to the EFE agency At least two people died as a result of the air strikewhile the group later announced in separate statements the deaths of two of its members from the Bekaa Valley, without providing further details.
The situation on the border between Israel and Lebanon is becoming increasingly tense (Portal/Evelyn Hockstein)
According to the Israeli version, the militants targeted the terrorist group's air defense bases and did so in response to the previous launch of a surface-to-air missile against a Jewish state drone flying over southern Lebanon.
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For its part, the Lebanese Civil Defense reported on the social network Israeli attacks on the Bekaa led to fires in a two-story house and a shed.
Amid an intense day of crossfire, the Lebanese rescue organization also said a vehicle was hit by another Israeli bombardment in the Majadel area in the south of the country and where local media reported the deaths of at least two more people.
On his part The Israeli army claimed on Monday to have killed the head of Hezbollah's Naser unitin an attack with warplanes on the city of Tire in southern Lebanon.
Is about Hasan Hussein Salamiwho, according to a military statement released today, ordered attacks against “civilian and military targets” in the north, such as the firing of “anti-tank missiles towards the Kiryat Shmona area or against the headquarters of the (Israeli) 769 Brigade.” ”
The Israeli army claims to have killed a Hezbollah terrorist leader in southern Lebanon (Portal/Aziz Taher)
Israel noted that its bombing preceded the Lebanese shootdown of a surface-to-air missile fired at a Hemes dronein addition to a rocket explosion that brought down the aerial object “in Lebanese territory,” the army reported.
The border between Israel and Lebanon is experiencing the highest peak in tensions since 2006, with a fierce exchange of fire since the start of the war in Gaza, which has left more than 300 people dead, including around 218 in the ranks. Hezbollah has also confirmed losses in Syria .
In Israel, 16 people died on the northern border (10 soldiers and 6 civilians); while on the other side of the border, at least 285 people have died, including around 32 members of Palestinian militias, a soldier and 34 civilians – including ten minors and three journalists – as well as Hezbollah militiamen.
Israel had already carried out a number of selective bombings in areas far from the border, including one on the outskirts of Beirut that killed the number two of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas last January. Saleh al Aruribut so far it had not yet attacked the Bekaa Valley.
The clashes, the worst since the parties went to war in 2006, intensified in the last two weeks with heavy attacks.
(With information from EFE)