Lhe Israeli army announced that it had struck dozens of targets of the Islamist movement Hezbollah in the Bekaa region of Lebanon before dawn on Monday.
“Air Force combat planes attacked dozens of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah in the Bekaa region of Lebanon,” a Civil Defense spokesperson said on Telegram, specifying : “Among the targets attacked, dozens of launchers and buildings where weapons were stored. »
Israel “will continue to forcefully attack, damage and degrade Hezbollah’s military capabilities and infrastructure in Lebanon,” he added.
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Earlier, a Lebanese security source said at least four people were killed Monday in an Israeli drone strike targeting an apartment belonging to Jamaa Islamiya in Beirut – the first attack in the heart of the Lebanese capital since the attack unprecedented by Palestinian Hamas in Israel, October 7, 2023.
Israeli raids left at least 105 dead and 359 injured on Sunday, according to the Lebanese Ministry of Health.
Hezbollah began firing rockets at northern Israel on October 8, saying it was doing so in support of its ally Hamas, an Islamist movement at war against Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Furthermore, the Israeli army indicated that “more than 20 other terrorists” from Lebanese Hezbollah had died in the airstrike which destroyed the organization’s headquarters in the southern suburbs of Beirut on Friday, which cost the life of its leader. , Hassan Nasrallah.
“More than 20 other terrorists of various ranks, who were present in Beirut’s underground headquarters located under civilian buildings and who directed Hezbollah’s terrorist operations against the State of Israel, were also eliminated,” the statement said. army in a press release.
According to the army, Ibrahim Hussein Jazini, Samir Taoufiq Dib, Abed al-Amir Muhammad Sablini and Ali Naaf Ayoub were among those killed.
She said she had also killed Nabil Qaouq, a senior Hezbollah official, in an airstrike in the suburbs of Beirut. Qaouq was a member of Hezbollah’s central council and was considered “close to high-ranking Hezbollah commanders,” according to the statement.
During the night from Sunday to Monday, Hezbollah confirmed the death of “commander” Sheikh Nabil Qaouq, its “head of the preventive security unit”, in an Israeli strike targeting the southern suburbs of Beirut on Saturday.
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