Israel’s IDF enters Lebanon with “ground raid” – DW – 10/01/2024

The Israeli army launched a “limited, local and specific” ground incursion along Lebanon’s southern border in the early hours of Tuesday (01.10.2024), the Israeli Armed Forces (IDF) confirmed in a statement.

“A few hours ago, the IDF launched limited, local and selective ground raids based on precise information against Hezbollah terrorist targets and infrastructure in southern Lebanon,” he announced in a statement.

It is this infiltration that is taking place, without further details, “into villages near the border”, which according to Israeli forces “represents an immediate threat to Israeli communities in northern Israel.”

95 people killed in Israeli attacks in Lebanon in the last 24 hours

For its part, the Lebanese Health Ministry confirmed on September 30 that a total of 95 people were killed and 172 injured in various Israeli attacks in the country over the past 24 hours. These figures add to more than a thousand people killed and nearly a million people forced to flee their homes in the last two weeks due to Israeli bombardment against Lebanon, mainly in the south and east, but also on the southern outskirts. Of Beirut.

On the night of 30 September, new bombings were reported in the southern suburb of Beirut, known as Dahaye and a Hezbollah stronghold, after Israeli forces urged it to be evacuated.

For its part, Hezbollah issued a statement saying it had attacked Israeli troops deployed along the border. The attack – according to Hezbollah – took place at the entrance to the Shtula settlement and used “artillery shells” that resulted in a “direct hit”.

At the Israeli border – as seen by an agency photographer efe– There was “heavy artillery shelling” against southern Lebanon and the IDF confirmed alarms in Shtula and Misgav Am on the northern Israeli border.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military urged the Lebanese population to evacuate several neighborhoods in Beirut’s southern suburbs on the night of 30 September. “You are located adjacent to terrorist Hezbollah interests and facilities and therefore the IDF will take vigorous action against them. For your own safety and that of your family members, you must immediately evacuate the buildings and move away from them at least 500 metres,” he said in X(earlier) Twitter) military spokesman, Avichai Adraei, in Arabic.

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