Israeli firefighters put out fires on two cars and brush in the Bet Shemesh area west of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon, which were of criminal origin. Initially, firefighters and the Israeli army indicated that these fires had been caused by debris resulting from the interception of a missile coming from Yemen.
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“The link was made with the interceptions because of the temporal coincidence between them and the start of the fire and because the interceptions often cause fires, but in this case it is not linked”, clarified the door – spokesperson for the firefighters for the Jerusalem area.
Yemen missile intercepted at same time
According to a military statement, the Israeli Air Force “intercepted a projectile which approached Israel from Yemen” but which “did not enter Israeli territory”.
In Yemen, Houthi rebels claimed responsibility for an attack “against the Nahal Sorek military base, southeast of Jaffa”. “The shot was precise and started a fire near the targeted site,” said the military spokesperson. According to The Times of Israel newspaper, the Nahal Sorek base houses a munitions center.
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In Yemen, the Houthi rebels, who control large parts of the country, are part, along with other groups such as the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas or the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, of what the Islamic Republic of Iran calls the “axis of resistance” against Israel.
No Lebanese villages occupied by Israel, says Hezbollah
Hezbollah media chief Mohammad Afif said Monday that the Israeli army still did not occupy any village in southern Lebanon where it launched a ground offensive on September 30.
“After 45 days of bloody battles, the Israeli enemy is still incapable of occupying a single village” in southern Lebanon, assured the official during a press conference in the southern suburbs of Beirut, shelled by the air force. Israeli.
Drone attacks from Iraq
Furthermore, the “Islamic Resistance in Iraq”, a coalition of pro-Iranian armed groups, claimed four successive drone attacks, carried out early Monday against “essential targets” in the north and south of Israel.
The Israeli army, for its part, indicated that it had “succeeded in intercepting four drones which were approaching Israel from the east” during the night from Sunday to Monday. “Two of them were intercepted before entering Israeli territory,” specifies the army.
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