Tension is not easing in the Middle East. The Israeli army announced Wednesday that it had targeted “more than 100 terrorist targets” in one day in Lebanon, particularly near Tire, where it is fighting the pro-Iranian movement Hezbollah, of which it also said it had killed two commanders on Sunday.
The IDF also affirmed that it was fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon and “not against the Lebanese Armed Forces”, after the Lebanese army announced the death of four of its soldiers in two Israeli strikes.
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Strikes in Syria
At least four non-Syrian pro-Iranian fighters were also killed on Wednesday in Israeli strikes targeting the thousand-year-old city of Palmyra, in central Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH) said.
The official Syrian agency Sana reported explosions resulting from an “Israeli aggression targeting residential buildings and the industrial zone” of the city. In recent weeks, Israel, in open war in Lebanon against pro-Iranian Hezbollah, has intensified its strikes in Syrian territory, where the powerful Lebanese movement supports the Damascus regime.
Peace negotiations still ongoing
These events come as a US envoy is in Beirut to negotiate a US truce proposal and is heading to Israel this afternoon to continue negotiations. The leader of Lebanese Hezbollah is due to give a speech this Wednesday afternoon.
France condemned on Wednesday the rocket fire “probably perpetrated by Hezbollah” on Tuesday against two positions of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), and the shooting suffered the same day by a patrol of Helmets French blues.
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