Strikes by Israeli forces continued to escalate on Friday and into Saturday, with towns in southern Lebanon experiencing heavy shelling and airstrikes targeting homes and buildings across the area. Eight were estimated to have been killed in the strikes.
Three members of the Amal Movement were killed on Friday night in an attack on their building in Marjayoun. A fourth member was reported wounded in the strike. The Amal Movement is the largest Shi’ite political party in Lebanon and is aligned with Hezbollah.
Strikes elsewhere in the south, including Ayta ash-Shaab and Qana, killed at least 5 Hezbollah members and wounded 10 others, mainly civilians. One member of the Lebanon military was among the wounded in Kfar Hamam.
Hezbollah was retaliating as well, hitting Warda, Blida, the Zarit barracks, among other sites throughout northern Israel. Damage and injuries from these strikes has not been reported as of yet.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah used his Quds Day speech to proclaim that the movement intends to retaliate further, both for Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon and for the recent Israeli attack on the Iranian Embassy in Syria.
Israel remains on alert for the possibility of retaliation over the Iran Embassy, closing dozens of its embassies, trying to up security. Iran has also threatened its own retaliation in a time of its choosing.
The international community has tried to broker a ceasefire to prevent an Israeli offensive into Lebanon. But this effort doesn’t appear to be making much headway, and the Israeli Defense Ministry is instead focused on preparing the Israeli public for a full-scale war.
A truce In Lebanon would involve a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, and this is also being worked on by the international community, but so far to no avail. What does seem to be trending is further escalation of the conflict.
It never does because of censorship by Israel…!
Eventually, they won’t be able to keep the news censored.
KIAs cannot be censored in Israel.
News like this travel fast in the Israeli small, heterogeneous society and via relatively free press (for Israeli KIAs at least).
Same goes for Lebanon. While the society there is more sectarian, based on religion/ethnicity, it’s still small enough for such news to travel fast. The only figures that can be kept for a while are KIAs among Iranian “advisors” and Palestinian refugees.
They’re trying real hard to censor the news, with 95 journalists killed in Gaza.
Israel is a pissant that pisses on everyones holidays.
Way to go Hezbo.
Keep on trying to bring war to Lebanon in the name of peace just like Hamas did.
Hezbollah do as told by Iran who consider Lebanon as a weapons test site, a staging area and a siphon to Israel’s ammunition.
Resentment against them in Lebanon is growing although, nothing much can be done (they are still an armed militia that defy the will of the Lebanese government and retaliate against opposition to their power)
Israel should disapaper from the pages of the history .