11 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israeli army has bombed a truck in southern Lebanon that was allegedly carrying a rocket launcher used on Wednesday to carry out an attack on northern Israel, as well as several “military installations” used by the Shiite militia party Hezbollah, with no immediate reports of casualties.
“During the night, an Air Force plane attacked a truck carrying the shuttle from which yesterday’s attack on Shatula was carried out in the Aita al-Chaab area,” the statement said on its website, adding that the Hezbollah targets bombed were in the areas of Al-Adisa and Rab al-Taltin.
He also confirmed shelling of a Shiite group “observation post” in Ramia and “military infrastructure” in Khiam. “The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have attacked other areas in southern Lebanon with artillery to eliminate threats,” he said, without further details.
The Israeli army and Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and has significant political clout in Lebanon, have been engaged in a series of clashes since October 8, a day after the attacks on Israeli territory by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and other Palestinian factions, which left nearly 1,200 dead and some 240 kidnapped.
Tensions have been on the rise in recent weeks, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently warning that the Israeli army “is prepared for a very powerful action” on the border with Lebanon, while Hezbollah’s number two, Naim Qassem, has maintained that an expansion of the conflict would lead to “devastation and destruction” in Israel.
For his part, the leader of the Lebanese group, Hassan Nasrallah, said on Wednesday that if Hamas and Israel reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the Shiite militia-party will also “unconditionally” end its attacks from Lebanon’s southern border, as several senior members of the party had expressed in the previous days.
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