▲ In the image, members of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah at the funeral of comrades who died in an Israeli attack on Friday.Afp Photo
▲ In the image, Lebanese people observe the smoke from the Israeli attacks.Photo Ap
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The newspaper La Jornada
Sunday, September 22, 2024, p. 16
Beirut. The Israeli air force attacked southern Lebanon yesterday, raising fears of an all-out war, a day after a bombing that killed 37 people, including senior Hezbollah commanders, in a Beirut suburb.
Over the past hour we have launched a large-scale attack in southern Lebanon, after identifying Hezbollah preparations to fire on Israeli territory.army spokesman Daniel Hagari said in the evening, adding that dozens of planes participated in that operation.
Earlier, Israel said it had attacked in that area. Thousands of rocket launch pads ready for use.
The pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah announced that it had launched dozens of rockets against military positions in northern Israel; about 90according to the army.
“Islamic Resistance fighters attacked the Northern Command’s anti-aircraft missile defense system at the Berea barracks yesterday with rockets. Katyusha”, and “bombarded the headquarters of the 631st Golani Brigade reconnaissance force in the Ramot Naftali barracks with a rocket salvo Katyusha and attacked the Israeli site of Jal al-Alam, located between the towns of Alma al-Shaab and Naqoura, with artillery shells,” the Lebanese militia said.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the most of the rockets were detected.
In connection with the warning sirens in the northern region, 10 projectiles were fired from Lebanon, most of which were intercepted. An investigation is underway.Israeli Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee reported on his social media account X.
Hezbollah’s offensives against Israel yesterday resulted in at least one person being injured. He is a 60-year-old man and, according to doctors, has serious injuries. mild by shrapnel, collects The Times of Israel. Authorities have already imposed new restrictions on residents of Haifa and the north of the country, in view of the possibility of a imminent large-scale assault Hezbollah, the newspaper said.
The pro-Iranian and pro-Palestinian group said these attacks are a response to the repeated Israeli attacks against various Lebanese regions that have caused the deaths of many civiliansin reference to the bombing selective carried out on Friday by the Israel Defense Forces against southern Beirut, which killed at least 37 people and wounded 68 others. Israel reported that the target of the attack selective The attack on Friday killed Ibrahim Akil, a senior member of the Lebanese Shiite militia, but also claimed the lives of other militiamen and civilians in the area, including at least three children and seven women.
Added to this week’s casualty figures are the 39 dead and more than 3,000 injured due to explosions of communication devices (pagers and portable radios) recorded on Tuesday and Wednesday in Lebanon and Syria, and attributed to Israel, although Tel Aviv has not commented on the matter.
Hezbollah, a powerful political and military player in Lebanon, opened a front on the border with Israel almost a year ago, following the start of the war in the Gaza Strip.
On October 8, 2023, the militia launched rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas, prompting retaliatory artillery fire from Israel and airstrikes in southeastern Lebanon. The conflict has already caused numerous casualties and displaced tens of thousands on both sides of the border.
For their part, the Lebanese authorities acknowledged that the security situation is delicate and dangerous.
Lebanon’s Central Security Council held an extraordinary meeting yesterday after which Interior Minister Bassam Maulaui said that Lebanese forces must actively monitor any suspicious movement in order to avoid Any violation or attack on residential areas of the country.
Maulawi acknowledged that many civilians, including women and children, have been killed or injured in recent days by Israel, and stressed the need for track cameras to detect any movement in all areasthe newspaper reported The Orient – The Day.
Coordination between security forces is necessary to meet the challenges. We must all be in a constant state of vigilance and total readiness.he noted.
These statements by the Lebanese interior minister came shortly before the IDF announced on its social media that it was carrying out a new wave of attacks against Objectives of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has suspended a planned trip to New York, where the annual session of the United Nations General Assembly is being held, in view of the recent Israeli attacks on his country.
UN meeting interrupted
He intended to travel to New York in the context of the intensification of Lebanese diplomatic action during the sessions of the United Nations General Assembly with the aim of stopping the prolonged Israeli aggression against Lebanon, as well as the massacres perpetrated by the enemy.Mikati wrote in an official note, reported the Lebanese news agency NNA.
The Head of State stressed that There is no greater priority at this time than stopping the massacres perpetrated by the Israeli enemy and the multiple types of war it is waging..
He also urged the international community and human conscience to adopt a clear position on these terrible massacreshe added.
“He also called for the adoption of international regulations to prevent the use of civilian technological means as military and war weapons,” Mikati said, referring to the detonation of communication devices used by Hezbollah, which points to an Israeli attack.
Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urged Muslim countries as a whole to cut all economic relations with Israel, as an act of minimum what they can do in response to Israeli attacks on Gaza, the reoccupied West Bank and Lebanon, during an event held on the occasion of the 38th Conference of Islamic Unity at the Imam Hoomini Mosque in Tehran, attended by ambassadors of Muslim countries represented in Tehran.
