Israel strikes 200 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon – DW – 10/13/2024

The Israeli army confirmed this Sunday (13/10/2024) after midnight the Health Ministry attacked about 200 Hezbollah “targets” during the night in “deep” Lebanon and the south of the country, the Lebanese public is already At least 15 deaths have been reported, eleven of them in two attacks north of Beirut, joining at least nine deaths from bombings in two Lebanese villages yesterday.

A military statement said the targets struck included “terrorist cells (militias), launchers, anti-tank missile posts and infrastructure sites” such as weapons warehouses, which may still be instigating war aggression in the neighboring country. Describes it as “limited, local and specific”. “, despite attacks in the north. According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANI), “the old mosque in the center of Kafr Tibnit village was also bombed from the air, completely destroying it.”

Early morning Israeli bombings killed at least 15 people, nine of them according to the ministry in an attack against the village of Maysara, north of Beirut, and two others – four injured and with unidentified “body parts”. With – in Der Billah, near the city of Batroun in northern Lebanon. In the south, an attack on Baraja in the Shouf district, 34 kilometers south of Beirut, killed four more people and wounded 18. The Lebanese Islamic movement Hezbollah said this Sunday that its fighters have been clashing with Israeli soldiers who tried to infiltrate a village in southern Lebanon, causing “deaths and injuries.”

The Israeli military also claimed to have intercepted about five projectiles launched from Lebanon on Sunday, shortly after air raid sirens sounded in several areas of northern Israel. According to the military, Hezbollah fired about 320 projectiles toward Israel in the middle of Yom Kippur, Judaism’s holiest day, a day after sirens were sounded in and around the city of Haifa, which ended at sunset on Saturday. Yesterday, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 other towns in southern Lebanon and once again asked the civilian population to move north of the Awali River.

LGC (EFE, AFP)