6 Apr. (EUROPE PRESS) –
The Israeli authorities have denounced this Thursday new rocket launches from southern Lebanon, leaving, for the moment, two injured and damage to a road and several buildings in the city of Shlomi.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have reported that one of the rockets could have been intercepted by air defense systems, while sirens continue to sound intermittently in the Galilee and in northern Israel.
This umpteenth episode of hostilities comes after Israel bombed facilities of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in the Gaza Strip in response to rocket fire by Palestinians, all amid tensions over disputes over the Al Aqsa Mosque, located on the Esplanade of Mosques.
Hours before Israel reported these attacks, the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah denounced in a statement the assault carried out by Israeli security forces on Tuesday night at the said mosque, located in Jerusalem, when dozens of worshipers They were celebrating the month of Ramadan.
“Hezbollah proclaims its full solidarity with the Palestinian people and the resistance groups, and pledges to support them in all measures they take to protect the faithful and the Al Aqsa Mosque and deter the enemy from continuing their attacks,” it said. said the group in a statement, which includes ‘Times of Israel’.
This type of uptick in hostilities is usually common during this time of year, as the Ramadan holiday coincides with the Jewish Passover. The Mosque Mosque is the religious heart of East Jerusalem and is a place revered by both Jews and Muslims.
According to the ‘status quo’ administered by Jordan as part of the peace agreements of the Six Day War (1967), Jews cannot pray in the place and can only go at predetermined times and travel through it through a fixed route , accompanied by policemen who must ensure that the faithful do not pray or that they introduce Israeli flags or religious objects.
