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High-intensity clashes continued throughout Tuesday afternoon and late into the evening in southern Lebanon.
A drone targeted Naqoura, killing one person and wounding another, while heavy artillery fire targeted Alma el-Shaab in the western sector as well as Tayr Harfa and Wadi Zebqin.
A Lebanese Army post suffered material damage late on Tuesday, following a bombardment in the Kfarchouba region, but no casualties were reported.
Phosphorous shells rained down on the area between Markaba and Hula, setting off fires in the wooded area. Two Lebanese soldiers suffered from suffocation due to phosphorus inhalation and were taken to Mays el-Jabal hospital for treatment.
Phosphorus shells were also fired at Deir Mimas, Kfar Hamam, and Halta, causing fires.
The Israeli Army announced that it had attacked Hezbollah infrastructures in Aita al-Shaab and Odaisseh.
An air raid was also carried out on the town of Odeisseh, while planes broke the sound barrier and launched thermal balloons over Tyre and Bint Jbeil.
Hezbollah Statements
In the afternoon, Hezbollah announced the death of one of its fighters from Tyre. He was killed earlier in the day in an airstrike that targeted his motorcycle in Naqoura. Hezbollah also claimed to have fired rockets into the Netua forest and wounded Israeli soldiers there.
It also issued a series of statements announcing that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Baram, Tayhat, and Ramtha in the Kfarchouba hills, in addition to bombing the Zebdine post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Later in the evening, the pro-Iranian group claimed to have hit the headquarters of the Liman battalion in retaliation for the Naqoura attack that killed a Hezb member.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah's deputy secretary general, Naim Kassem, asserted that the Iran-backed group was ready for a global war, should Israel provoke it.
In an interview with the Qatari al-Jazeera TV, Kassem said that any extension of the war by Israel would be met “with devastation, destruction, and displacement.” He warned that Hezbollah had only used a small proportion of its capabilities so far, commensurate with the nature of the war.
Kassem denied rumors of a Radwan Forces withdrawal from the Lebanese border, insisting that the Lebanese front is linked to the Gaza front.
On the Israeli side, sirens sounded in the Ras Naqoura locality on the border with Lebanon, as well as in the Hanita region in the western Galilee.
The Israeli Army announced on Tuesday that 4,800 projectiles had been fired from Lebanon into Israel since the start of the war.
Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called for starting the fires in Lebanon “instead of putting them out in the north (of Israel).”
Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said during a tour of the northern border, “the work here (on the front with Lebanon) will be finished by September, diplomatically or by escalation,” stressing that Israel could not “waste another year” in the North.
He added that the greatest operational challenge for his country lay on the northern front, while the greatest moral challenge lay in Gaza.
A drone targeted Naqoura, killing one person and wounding another, while heavy artillery fire targeted Alma el-Shaab in the western sector as well as Tayr Harfa and Wadi Zebqin.
A Lebanese Army post suffered material damage late on Tuesday, following a bombardment in the Kfarchouba region, but no casualties were reported.
Phosphorous shells rained down on the area between Markaba and Hula, setting off fires in the wooded area. Two Lebanese soldiers suffered from suffocation due to phosphorus inhalation and were taken to Mays el-Jabal hospital for treatment.
Phosphorus shells were also fired at Deir Mimas, Kfar Hamam, and Halta, causing fires.
The Israeli Army announced that it had attacked Hezbollah infrastructures in Aita al-Shaab and Odaisseh.
An air raid was also carried out on the town of Odeisseh, while planes broke the sound barrier and launched thermal balloons over Tyre and Bint Jbeil.
Hezbollah Statements
In the afternoon, Hezbollah announced the death of one of its fighters from Tyre. He was killed earlier in the day in an airstrike that targeted his motorcycle in Naqoura. Hezbollah also claimed to have fired rockets into the Netua forest and wounded Israeli soldiers there.
It also issued a series of statements announcing that it had targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers in Baram, Tayhat, and Ramtha in the Kfarchouba hills, in addition to bombing the Zebdine post in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Later in the evening, the pro-Iranian group claimed to have hit the headquarters of the Liman battalion in retaliation for the Naqoura attack that killed a Hezb member.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah's deputy secretary general, Naim Kassem, asserted that the Iran-backed group was ready for a global war, should Israel provoke it.
In an interview with the Qatari al-Jazeera TV, Kassem said that any extension of the war by Israel would be met “with devastation, destruction, and displacement.” He warned that Hezbollah had only used a small proportion of its capabilities so far, commensurate with the nature of the war.
Kassem denied rumors of a Radwan Forces withdrawal from the Lebanese border, insisting that the Lebanese front is linked to the Gaza front.
On the Israeli side, sirens sounded in the Ras Naqoura locality on the border with Lebanon, as well as in the Hanita region in the western Galilee.
The Israeli Army announced on Tuesday that 4,800 projectiles had been fired from Lebanon into Israel since the start of the war.
Israel's Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, called for starting the fires in Lebanon “instead of putting them out in the north (of Israel).”
Also on Tuesday, Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said during a tour of the northern border, “the work here (on the front with Lebanon) will be finished by September, diplomatically or by escalation,” stressing that Israel could not “waste another year” in the North.
He added that the greatest operational challenge for his country lay on the northern front, while the greatest moral challenge lay in Gaza.
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