(Beyrouth) L’agence de presse nationale libanaise Ani a rapporté que l’armée israélienne avait dynamité des maisons dans deux villages du sud du Liban situés à la frontière avec Israël, engagé depuis plus d’un mois dans une guerre avec le mouvement pro-iranien Hezbollah.
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Dans le village d’Adaysseh, « l’armée de l’ennemi israélien a fait exploser et détruit […] houses in neighborhoods close to the barbed wire” of the border, Ani said.
For its part, the Israeli army reported “the explosion of a large quantity of explosives in Lebanon”, so strong that earthquake warning signals were activated in a large part of Israeli territory.
A video filmed from the sky circulating on social networks shows several spectacular and simultaneous explosions which cause the formation of thick columns of smoke. AFP was not able to independently authenticate these images reported by Lebanese media.
The Ani agency also reported “massive explosions” in the border village of Kfar Kila, with blasts heard in several southern regions.
In recent days, the Lebanese agency had reported several similar operations carried out by the Israeli army in border villages in southern Lebanon.
It is also in these villages that violent clashes take place, with Hezbollah saying it faces Israeli forces “at point blank range”.
For more than a year, Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged fire on the border, a “support front” opened by the Lebanese movement in solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the Islamist movement Hamas, at war with Israel since its unprecedented attack on October 7, 2023 on Israeli soil.
On September 23, the conflict turned into open war: land operations, destructive and deadly bombings on the south, east of Lebanon, and the southern suburbs of Beirut.
At least 1,600 people have been killed in Lebanon in more than a month, according to an AFP count based on official data.
The war in Lebanon has displaced 1.3 million people, including more than 800,000 within the country, according to UN statistics. More than half a million people, mostly Syrians, have fled to neighboring Syria, according to Lebanese authorities.