Several Israeli soldiers ‘lightly wounded’ in attack on occupied Golan Heights

September 16 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The Israeli army has confirmed that several soldiers have been “lightly wounded” in an attack against the northern part of the occupied Golan Heights and which was carried out from southern Lebanon, all in the context of clashes with the Shiite party-militia Hezbollah.

The wounded were treated on the ground by the National Defense Forces’ medical forces, who did not need to evacuate any of them, according to a statement from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted on its social media account X.

Earlier, Israeli aircraft had bombed around 20 Hezbollah rocket launching pads and military infrastructure in southern Lebanon after triggering anti-aircraft alarms when two projectiles crossed, which are the ones that fell in the Golan Heights. The IDF also bombed other areas of southern Lebanon throughout the day against positions of the Islamist organization.

The Golan Heights is a territory that Israel captured from Syria during the Six-Day War (1967) and the Yom Kippur War (1973) and which it effectively annexed in 1981, in a move not recognized by the international community.

Clashes between Israel and Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed group that wields significant military and political clout in Lebanon, have intensified in recent weeks, raising fears of a possible expansion of the conflict into the Middle East.

In this context, the Israeli Army presented its “operational plans” regarding Lebanon to the US Army last week, during a meeting between the Chief of Staff of the Army, Herzi Halevi, and the commander of the US Central Command (CENTCOM), Eric Kurilla, in which they discussed the situation in the country, “with an emphasis on the northern scenario, from Lebanon to Iran.”