Cross-border violence picked up again in South Lebanon early on Sunday with missile exchanges and Israeli air raids, following a night during which the Israeli army continued to launch flares over the villages of Tyre and the coastal area.
Israeli reconnaissance aircraft also flew over villages adjacent to the Blue Line in the western and middle sectors, according to the National News Agency (NNA).
Israel carried out six air raids on Sunday morning targeting woods in Yaroun and Kounin, as two shells crashed in Wadi Hamoul in the outskirts of Naqoura. The Israeli army also fired machine gun rounds from its position opposite Aita al-Shaab at the outskirts of the town.
For its part, Hezbollah said that it targeted the “Arab al-Aramsha” area with an anti-tank missile, and the Israeli army retaliated on Hamoul.
Meanwhile, extreme caution and high anticipation of heavy shelling prevailed in the eastern sector, after Israel had expanded its attacks targeting Majidiyah Al-Ghajar, the outskirts of Al-Mari, and the peripheries of Kfar Hamam, Kfarchouba, Rachaya al-Foukhar, and Helta in the Hasbaya district, including the Shebaa Farms and the heights of Mount Hermon.
Heavy artillery was used in the night attacks, in parallel to airstrikes and helicopter raids. Israeli MK-type aircraft have continuously surveilled the region, reaching the skies of the Western Bekaa and Al Tuffah Province, firing incendiary phosphorus shells.
Residents of villages close to the Blue Line are taking advantage of lulls in the confrontations in order to secure their needs for food and medicine. The Israeli army has been targeting moving objects and civilian cars at night, making it impossible to circulate after sunset.
Israel has, in the past couple of days, targeted Lebanese army and UNIFIL positions. On Saturday evening, an Israeli shell hit a watchtower for the Spanish battalion in UNIFIL in Ebel al-Qamh.
