The war continues on the Lebanese front, Sunday October 20. The Israeli army targeted a Hebzbollah command center and an underground weapons site in Beirut but also carried out strikes on dozens of towns in southern Lebanon. For its part, the Lebanese Islamist movement continued to launch rockets in the direction ofIsrael. Here’s what to remember from the day.
Israeli strikes on a Hezbollah “command center” in Beirut and on towns in southern Lebanon
The Israeli army announced that it had carried out an airstrike on a “command center” and an underground weapons site in Beirut. According to the Lebanese news agency ANI, the strikes hit the neighborhoods of Haret Hreik and Hadath Beirut, strongholds of the Lebanese Islamist movement in open war with Israel. The army also announced that it had “eliminated” three Hezbollah officials in southern Lebanon where it is carrying out intense airstrikes against the pro-Iranian movement, accompanied since September 30 by a land offensive.
During the night from Saturday to Sunday, the Israeli army also carried out strikes on dozens of localities in southern Lebanon, notably targeting the town of Nabatiyeh for the third time in nearly a week, the Israeli news agency reported. Lebanese press ANI. “Not only are we defeating the enemy, we are destroying them in all the villages along the border, sites that Hezbollah wanted to use as bases for attacks against Israel.”responded Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.
Lebanese army announces the death of three of its soldiers
The Lebanese army, for its part, announced the death of three of its soldiers in Israeli fire on one of its vehicles in the south of the country, where the Israeli army is carrying out incursions against pro-Iranian Hezbollah. This brings to eight the number of Lebanese soldiers killed since the beginning of the intensification of Israeli bombings on Lebanon on September 23.
UNIFIL accuses Israeli army of having “deliberately” destroyed an “observation tower”
And “bulldozer” of the Israeli army “deliberately demolished” a “Observation Tower and Fence” of a UNIFIL position in Marwahin in southern Lebanon, the UN peacekeeping mission announced in a statement.
“Despite the pressure on the mission (…) peacekeepers remain stationed in all positions”according to the press release. “We will continue to carry out the tasks for which we have been mandated”namely “monitor and report” of the situation on the border between Israel and Lebanon, adds UNIFIL.
Hezbollah launches “salvos of rockets”
For its part, Lebanese Hezbollah said it had targeted Israeli troops in two villages in southern Lebanon, on the border with Israel. The pro-Iranian Islamist movement said its fighters had targeted Israeli soldiers with “rocket salvos” in two villages in the same border area. Hezbollah also assured thatthat his fighters had launched “a salvo of rockets” on the city of Haifa, “in response” to the attacks against the southern suburbs of Beirut, a stronghold of Hezbollah, shelled by the Israeli air force for almost a month.
Earlier in the day, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah claimed to have launched a “major salvo of rockets” on a military base near the town of Safed in northern Israel. This is the seventh time that Hezbollah claims to have targeted Safed and its surroundings in two days. Three military bases in northern Israel, near the cities of Haifa and Safed, and west of Lake Galilee, were also targeted, including a “anti-aircraft defense”according to Hezbollah.
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