Israeli army bombs several Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon

Jul 22. (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli army on Sunday night bombed several positions of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah in southern Lebanon after detecting the launching of numerous drones against Israeli territory, a series of actions that are part of the ongoing clashes between both parties following the start of the conflict in the Gaza Strip after the attacks by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on October 7.

“Fighter aircraft have attacked a rocket launching position, an observation post and terrorist infrastructure of the Hezbollah terrorist organization in the areas of Aita al Shaab, Al Khyam and Yarin, in southern Lebanon,” reads a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted on its social media account X.

Shortly before, they had announced the activation of air alerts after the detection of several drones that had crossed the Lebanese-Israeli border, some of which were intercepted while others fell in the towns of Hanita and Yaara, where they caused a fire. So far, no casualties have been confirmed.

Clashes on the border between Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israeli security forces have intensified since the start of the military offensive on the Gaza Strip in October last year. Since then, at least 490 people have been killed in Lebanon, including some 370 Hezbollah members, while on the Israeli side around 30 people have been killed, half of them soldiers.

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, has assured that if Hamas and Israel reach a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, the group will also end “unconditionally” its attacks from Lebanon’s southern border, as several senior members of the group had expressed in the previous days.