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Israel continues to bomb Lebanon, Hezbollah rocket salvos
Israel continues to bomb Lebanon on Sunday, with strikes announced in the southern suburbs of Beirut, one of the strongholds of the Shiite movement Hezbollah which fired new salvos of rockets towards Israeli territory the day before, while the prospect of a truce appears more and more distant.Sunday at dawn, the Israeli army ordered the inhabitants of three sectors of the southern suburbs of Beirut, where according to it there are installations of the Hezbollah, to evacuate “immediately”, a standard warning before airstrikes. “You are near Hezbollah-affiliated facilities and interests, against which the Israel Defense Forces will act in the near future,” wrote the army’s spokesperson for the Arabic-speaking public, Avichay Adraee, in a message on Chiyah. The official Lebanese agency NNA also reported an air raid and artillery bombardments on the town of Al-Khiyam (southeast). On another front, in the Palestinian territory of Gaza, where Israel fights the Islamist movement Hamas, at least 24 people were killed on Saturday in Israeli strikes, according to local Civil Defense. On the Israeli side, the army announced on Sunday the death of a 21-year-old soldier in the north of the Gaza Strip. In Israel, two flares landed on Saturday in the courtyard in front of the private residence in Caesarea (center) of the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who was not there, announced the Israeli security services, who spoke of a “dangerous escalation”. Powerful armed movement accused by its detractors of constituting a “state within a state”, Hezbollah Lebanese opened a front against Israel in support of Hamas, one day after the attack carried out by this Palestinian movement on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023, which triggered the war in Gaza. After weakening Hamas and after a year of spiral of cross-border violence, Israel moved the main war front to Lebanon, launching on September 23 an intense campaign of destructive and deadly bombings mainly against the strongholds of Hezbollah. Saturday, Incessant airstrikes have targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut, located near the international airport of the Lebanese capital, according to local media. – Synagogue hit in Haifa – In the east of the country, six people including three children died in a hits, according to the Ministry of Health. In southern Lebanon, bordering northern Israel, several towns, including Tyre, and villages were the target of intense strikes. Two rescuers died, according to the ministry. The Israeli army claimed to have targeted “weapons depots and command centers of Hezbollah” in the Tyre region. Only faction to keep its weapons at the end of the war Lebanese civil society (1975-1990), in the name of the “resistance” against Israel, Hezbollah, created and financed by Iran, established itself as an essential political force in Lebanon. Israel says wanting to put Hezbollah and Hamas, two allies of Iran, its sworn enemy, out of harm’s way. He says his objective in Lebanon is to keep Hezbollah away from the border regions and to stop its rocket attacks which have displaced some 60,000 residents of northern Israel. Despite the hard blows inflicted on Hezbollah, several of whose leaders have been killed, the movement claimed to have hit an Israeli tank with “a missile” in southern Lebanon and fired more rockets against northern Israel on Saturday, including against military bases in and around the city from Haifa. The army reported around 80 projectiles fired during the day from Lebanon. In Haifa, a synagogue was hit and two civilians injured.- Truce plan -After almost two months of war, a senior Lebanese official said Friday that the United States ambassador in Beirut, Lisa Johnson, had presented to the Prime Minister Najib Mikati and the head of Parliament Nabih Berri a 13-point plan providing for a 60-day truce and the deployment of the army in southern Lebanon. “Mr. Berri asked for a three-day delay,” this official added on condition of anonymity without further details on this plan. More than 3,452 people have been killed in Lebanon since October 8, 2023, according to the Ministry of Health. , the majority since September 23. In the south, the army continues to bomb the devastated Gaza Strip, besieged and threatened with famine according to the UN. A center housing displaced people, houses and a hair salon were particularly affected, according to Civil Defense. “Get us out (of Gaza), for the love of God. Enough war, enough suffering!” launched Itimad Al-Zain, a Palestinian displaced in Gaza city. The attack of October 7, 2023 in Israel has caused the deaths of 1,206 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data, including hostages killed or died in captivity. that day, 251 people were kidnapped. In total, 97 remain hostages in Gaza, including 34 declared dead by the army. The Israeli retaliatory offensive in Gaza left 43,799 dead, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health.bur-roc/rr
