MADRID 19 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported late this Friday the presence in its territory of around twenty missiles from Lebanese territory and assured that its forces have shot down “some of them.”
“Following the alerts that were activated at 11:46 p.m. in the Upper Galilee area, about 20 missiles were detected that crossed into the country from Lebanon, some of them were intercepted, the rest fell in open areas,” the Army explained. Israeli on his account on the social network X.
An hour earlier, the IDF had advanced through the same platform as its troops had detected “several missiles” coming from Lebanon in the aforementioned region, although without specifying the exact number of intercepted devices.
Hostilities between Israel and the Lebanese Shiite militia party Hezbollah broke out just over a year ago when the Islamist group launched projectiles against Israeli territory in solidarity with the Palestinian cause and after Hamas attacked the Jewish State, leaving almost 1,200 dead. and 240 hostages, which motivated the response of the Government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, which totals more than 42,300 deaths.
The Israeli Army intensified its offensive against Hezbollah in mid-September with “selective bombings” against positions in southern Lebanon and even in neighborhoods of its capital, Beirut. These attacks have managed to decapitate the Islamist group with the death of its leader, Hassan Nasrallah, and some of his possible successors.
The high number of injuries is due to the coordinated explosion at the beginning of September of thousands of communication devices – ‘pagers’ and ‘walkie-talkies’ – supposedly linked to Hezbollah, which together with its partners quickly came forward to hold Hezbollah responsible. Israel, which, however, never made a statement on the matter.
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