Israel bombed this Thursday Gaza Strip and was confronted with artillery fire from Lebanon, the day after the leader of the Shiite movement Hezbollah threatened with a forceful reply if the Jewish State launched a offensive general on its northern border.
Hezbollahally of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamasin power in Gaza, announced that it bombed northern Israel in retaliation for the death of one of its fighters in an Israeli attack.
The Israeli army confirmed that “eliminated” to a commander Hezbollah. He also bombed a base of “surface-to-air missile launch” from the Lebanon-based, Iran-funded movement.
The head of Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallahwarned on Wednesday that “nowhere” of Israel would be safe if the Israeli government opened a new front on its northern border.
The head of the Israeli army, General Herzi Halevistated that his country has “infinitely superior capabilities” wings of Hezbollah.
The border between Israel and Lebanon It has been the scene of almost daily artillery duels since the start on October 7 of the war between the Jewish State and Hamas in Gaza.
The Israeli offensive does not let up in that narrow territory of 2.4 million inhabitants, devastated by more than eight months of war.
In the Nuseirat refugee camp, in the center, two people died in a bombing, medical sources indicated.
Witnesses reported firing from Israeli tanks in Zeitun, a neighborhood of Gaza City in the north, and in the Bureij and Maghazi fields.
In Rafah, in the far south of the territory of 2.4 million inhabitants, clashes are taking place between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian fighters, said a source in Hamas’s armed wing.
Tensions between Israel and the US
The war broke out on October 7, when Islamist militants killed 1,194 people, mostly civilians, and kidnapped 251 in southern Israel, according to a count based on official Israeli data.
The Israeli army estimates that 116 people remain hostage in Gaza, 41 of whom have died.
In response, Israel launched an offensive that has already left at least 37,431 dead in Gaza, mostly civilians, according to the territory’s Ministry of Health.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is facing a wave of internal and external criticism for his handling of the war and for failing to secure the release of the hostages.
But the president, at the head of a coalition of nationalist, ultra-conservative and Orthodox Jewish forces, affirms that he will continue the war until “annihilating” Hamas, considered an organization “terrorist” by Israel, the European Union and the United States.
An emissary of US President Joe Biden, Amos Hochstein, who visited Israel and Lebanon this week, deemed it “urgent” to reduce tensions on the border with Lebanon and defended the truce plan for Gaza presented on May 31 by Biden.
The relationship between Biden and Netanyahu is complicated. The White House on Thursday described as “deeply disappointing and certainly offensive” the Prime Minister’s statements about delays in the delivery of US military aid to Israel.
“I am willing to suffer personal attacks as long as Israel receives from the United States the supplies it needs in the war for its existence.”“Netanyahu said this Thursday in a statement.
“Nowhere safe”
The Israeli army announced on Tuesday that it had ready a “offensive” against Hezbollah after weeks of intensifying shooting from both sides of the border.
The Israeli foreign minister, Israel Katzthreatened to destroy Hezbollah in a “total war”.
“The enemy knows very well that we have prepared for the worst (…) and that there will be no place (…) safe from our rockets“, declared on Wednesday the leader of Hezbollah.
Nasrallah also threatened Cyprus, stating that this eastern Mediterranean country, a member of the European Union, would be considered “part of the war” if it authorized Israel to use its airports and bases to attack Lebanon.
“Cyprus is not involved in this war in any way.“, assured the Cypriot president, Nikos Christodoulidesit’s a statement.
More than eight months of clashes between Hezbollah and the Israeli army left at least 479 dead in Lebanon, most of them fighters from Hezbollahaccording to an AFP count that includes 93 civilians.
On the Israeli side, at least 15 soldiers and 11 civilians were killed, according to Israel.
The war in Loop It also fueled violence in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said this Thursday that Israeli forces killed a Palestinian teenager in the city of Qalqilya. The Israeli army said its troops fired on rioters.
Source: Gestion
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