“Hezbollah” announces the targeting of Israeli soldiers and sites, and clashes escalate with the Israeli army.. and martyrs, including two members of the party.. and an Israeli raid on a center for the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon.

Lebanon. South of the Litani River. June, 1981. Shot from Rashidiyyah Palestinian Camp south of Tyre. (R. Prince photo)

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Note: This article is a “google translation of a piece that appeared in Arabic at Raialyoum, an Arabic news source. I print it mostly because we in the USA virtually never get news about the fighting going on between Hezbollah in S. Lebanon and the Israeli forces in N. Israel.

As this article notes – Israel continues to “break red lines” in an effort to provoke Hezbollah to launch a full scale war against Israel that  Netanyahu is counting on, would draw the U.S. directly into the conflict.

Extremely tense, fluid times … as both Israel and the USA suffer from “wounded beast syndrome’

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“Hezbollah” announces the targeting of Israeli soldiers and sites, and clashes escalate with the Israeli army.. and martyrs, including two members of the party.. and an Israeli raid on a center for the Amal Movement in southern Lebanon.

Wassim Saif Al-Din/Anatolia
Hezbollah announced launching attacks with artillery and rocket shells, on Friday, on Israeli soldiers and military sites after occupation raids on towns in southern Lebanon that killed two people.

This came in various statements published by the party through its social media accounts.

The party reported that its fighters targeted, with “appropriate weapons” (which it did not specify), “the spy equipment in the Israeli “Zarit” military barracks, and “directly hit it.”

He added that his fighters targeted with artillery and rocket shells a movement of Israeli army soldiers and vehicles at the Al-Malikiyah site, and “achieved confirmed hits.”

Hezbollah indicated that its fighters targeted, with a guided missile, a military vehicle at the gate of the “Al-Matula” site, “hitting it directly, which led to its destruction and its crew being killed and wounded.”

He pointed out that they also targeted the “Hadab Yaron” Israeli military site with artillery shells and “directly hit it.”
The party also targeted with artillery shells a deployment of Israeli army soldiers in the vicinity of the “Al-Manara” military site, and “hit it directly,” according to its statements.

There was no confirmation from the Israeli side of these “Hezbollah” announcements until 15:05 GMT.

On Friday, Hezbollah announced the martyrdom of two of its members in clashes with the Israeli army in southern Lebanon, bringing the number of its martyrs to 267 since last October 8.

In separate statements, Hezbollah mourned the racists, “Bilal Haidar Halal, born in 1996 from the town of Qana in southern Lebanon, and Ali Nasser Abd Ali, born in 1998 from the town of Aytit (south).”

The party explained that its members “rose martyrs on the road to Jerusalem,” as it put it, without details about the circumstances of their killing.

With the martyrdom of two members, the party’s death toll as a result of clashes with the Israeli army rises to 267 since October 8, according to Anatolia monitoring.

Earlier today, two people were killed and a third was injured in an Israeli air strike that targeted a house in the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon, according to the official Lebanese News Agency.

It added that Israeli warplanes also bombed 4 homes in the towns of “Kafr Kila,” “Tair Harfa,” and “Al-Zaloutiya,” and on the outskirts of the town of “Zibqin,” without clarifying the identity of the targeted homes, and whether or not this resulted in casualties.

Subsequently, Hezbollah announced launching attacks with artillery and rocket shells on Israeli soldiers and military sites in Zarit, Al-Malikiyah, Metulla, Hadab Yaron, and Al-Manara, in which it achieved “direct hits.”

The Israeli army claimed, in simultaneous statements, that it had targeted Hezbollah sites with air strikes, including “infrastructure, two military buildings, and a reconnaissance site.”

Three people were martyred and another wounded, on Friday, in an Israeli raid that targeted a center for the “Amal Movement” in the Nabatieh Governorate, southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese News Agency reported that “three martyrs and one wounded were killed in an enemy raid that targeted a center for the Amal Movement in the village of Jdeidet Marjayoun.”

The agency reported that this afternoon, Israeli forces fired machine-gun fire towards the town of Al-Dhahira.
No statement was issued by the Amal Movement about the raid until 17:00 (UTG).

In the wake of a devastating Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, which led to Tel Aviv being brought before the International Court of Justice on charges of “genocide,” the Israeli-Lebanese border has witnessed, since October 8, 2023, an exchange of fire between the Israeli army on the one hand, and “Hezbollah.” And Palestinian factions, on the other hand, led to deaths and injuries on both sides of the border.

Recently, threats have escalated from Israeli officials to expand attacks on Lebanese territory unless Hezbollah fighters withdraw away from the border with northern Israel.