TEL AVIV: The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) Spokesman, Daniel Hagari, has declared that Israel has crafted “operation plans” to address the escalating tensions along the Israel-Lebanon border.
This statement comes in the wake of a series of missile and anti-tank rocket launches from Lebanon towards the Krayot area, north of Haifa, and a community near the border. The attacks resulted in 18 civilians and soldiers sustaining injuries, with one person in critical condition, according to Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue service.
In response, the Israeli military conducted airstrikes in southern Lebanon, and artillery was deployed towards the areas from which the rockets originated. Hagari emphasized that Israel has strategic plans to alter the security situation in the north, aiming for the return of residents to their homes. He issued a warning, stating that the citizens of Lebanon would bear the consequences for rocket attacks launched by Hezbollah and Hamas from Lebanese territory.
Lebanese military sources reported one Hezbollah fighter killed and four civilians injured in the southern border village of Yarine during clashes with Israeli forces on Sunday. The sources, speaking anonymously, revealed that Israel’s heavy artillery targeted seven towns in southwestern Lebanon and 17 in the southeast, causing extensive damage to over 30 houses. Additionally, warplanes and drones carried out raids on the outskirts of 18 southern towns.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for launching rockets and artillery attacks on three Israeli barracks and ten other sites facing southern Lebanon. The death of the Hezbollah fighter brings the total casualties on the Lebanese side since October 8 to 97, including 76 members of Hezbollah, a member of the Amal Movement, nine members of Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements in Lebanon, and 11 civilians, including a photojournalist.
The tension along the Lebanon-Israel border has been on the rise for five weeks escalating the conflict in the region.
