The Israeli armed forces say they know “exactly” where the attack originated and that they are “very prepared” for the next phase of the war
Israeli Army aircraft attacked several towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday, claiming the presence of “terrorist targets” of the Lebanese Shiite party-militia Hezbollah, after the attack that left at least twelve dead on Saturday afternoon in Majdal Shams.
“Fighter jets have attacked a number of terrorist targets of the Hezbollah terrorist organization throughout Lebanon overnight,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a post on the social network X.
In the same message, the Israeli forces have clarified that, “among the targets attacked in deep and southern Lebanon, there are (…) terrorist infrastructures in the areas of Shabriha, Burj al Shamali, Bekaa, Kfar Kila, Rab al Talatin, Jiyam and Tir Harfa.”
Previously, the pan-Arab news channel Al Jazeera reported attacks in the same areas of Lebanese territory, in addition to the port city of Tyre and Abbasiya.
For its part, the Hezbollah-affiliated media Al Manar reported the registration of attacks between the towns of Chmistar and Taraiyya, in the Bekaa Valley, the group’s stronghold in eastern Lebanon.
Earlier, Israeli Army Radio had confirmed the attack on an area in Chebaa, “from where the IDF previously said the deadly projectile was fired at Majdal Shams,” according to the Times of Israel.
“READY FOR THE NEXT PHASE OF THE WAR”
Following the IDF confirmation, the Chief of Staff of the Israeli Armed Forces, Herzi Halevi, said that they know “exactly where the projectile was launched from” in question and assured that they are “raising (their) readiness to the next level to fight in the north.”
Halevi has defended that the Israeli troops are “very prepared for the next phase of the war in the north,” while the offensive in the Gaza Strip continues. “We know that we will also attack very far from the State of Israel and that there will be more challenges,” he added.
“We will use all means to ensure that the residents of the north return home safe and sound,” he promised, pointing out that this is “a full obligation” of the Israeli Army and that they will act “when a forceful operation is necessary.” “We will act so that better days come,” he added in a video broadcast on X.
In the same intervention, the Israeli spokesman reiterated that the attack on Majdal Shams was carried out using a ‘Falaq-1’ rocket “with a 53-kilogram nuclear warhead” and denounced that the objective of the attack was none other than “killing children,” while he conveyed his condolences to the families of the victims.
Images of the alleged attacks have been circulating on social media, after at least 12 Israelis were killed and more than a dozen injured by a projectile launched from Lebanon that landed on Saturday afternoon on a football pitch in the Druze town of Majdal Shams, in the Syrian Golan Heights occupied by Israel, according to the latest military report.
The Golan Heights is a territory that Israel seized 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 recognised by the international community.
