Every day, its share of exchanges of strikes in the Middle East. Lebanese Hezbollah said on Sunday it had fired drones and missiles against military targets near Tel Aviv and a naval base in Ashdod in southern Israel, in a rare attack on southern Israel since the beginning on 23 September, of open war with Israel.
Lebanese soldier killed
In Israel, the army announced that warning sirens had sounded in the north and center of the country. The IDF specifies that the country was targeted by around 160 projectiles.
According to Magen David Adom, the Israeli equivalent of the Red Cross, and certain hospitals, several people were injured, including one – a sixty-year-old – quite seriously.
For its part, the Lebanese army announced that one of its soldiers had been killed and 18 injured, some seriously, in an Israeli attack in southern Lebanon.
South Beirut targeted
Furthermore, two Israeli strikes hit the southern suburbs of Beirut, said Lebanese state media, after a call from the Israeli army to evacuate certain areas of this Hezbollah stronghold.
“Israeli warplanes launched two violent strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut, in the Kafaat sector,” said the Lebanese National News Agency (Ani).
The raids “caused massive destruction in a large geographical area” of Kafaat district, Ani added.
Images broadcast by AFPTV show gray smoke rising above the Lebanese capital after these strikes.
Earlier in the day, the Israeli army's Arabic-language spokesperson, Avichay Adraee, warned on X that the army would strike “Hezbollah installations and interests” in the Hadath and Bourj al- Barajneh, by sharing maps of areas to be evacuated.
