After hitting UN peacekeepers, navy claims Hezbollah is utilizing ambulances for fighters whereas providing no proof.
The Israeli military has threatened to hit ambulances in southern Lebanon, claiming they’re being misused by Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and in addition ordered extra villages to evacuate.
The warning got here after Israeli forces hit positions of the United Nations Interim Power in Lebanon (UNIFIL), injuring peacekeepers.
Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee on Saturday alleged that “Hezbollah components are utilizing ambulances to move fighters and arms.” He didn’t present any proof of his accusation.
“We name on medical groups to keep away from contact with Hezbollah members and to not cooperate with them,” he mentioned. The Israeli navy “affirms that the required actions shall be taken in opposition to any car transporting armed people, no matter its sort”.
Adraee additionally warned residents of southern Lebanon not to return to their properties as Israeli troops continued combating Hezbollah fighters within the space.
“In your personal safety, don’t return to your properties till additional discover. Don’t go south, anybody who goes south could put his life in danger,” he mentioned.
The Israeli navy additionally ordered residents of twenty-two southern Lebanese villages to evacuate to areas north of the Awali River, in line with an announcement launched on Saturday.
Combating ongoing
Israeli air assaults proceed to accentuate throughout Lebanon, whereas Hezbollah has responded by launching rockets at Israel.
Since September 23, when Israel expanded its battle in opposition to Hezbollah by bombarding southern Beirut and different strongholds of the group with lethal air strikes, greater than 1,200 individuals have been killed in Lebanon.
An Israeli air raid on Baysarieh, a village in Sidon province, killed three individuals, together with a 2-year-old and a 16-year-old, and injured three others, Lebanon’s Ministry of Well being mentioned.
In Baalbeck-Hermel province, positioned within the Bekaa Valley, 5 extra individuals have been killed and 5 wounded in extra air assaults.
“It has been an intense evening of bombing at many places within the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon as was the case yesterday,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting from Chtoura. “What we have now been witnessing is Israeli assaults on residential buildings.”
Hezbollah mentioned it used “qualitative missiles” to hit an Israeli navy base making weapons south of Haifa, in its seventh assault on Israeli positions on Saturday.
The group mentioned the assault occurred at 6am (03:00 GMT) and included artillery hearth concentrating on Israeli troopers close to the Lebanon border, the launch of a “guided missile” on the Ramyah website, and a number of rocket barrages geared toward Israeli positions.
Iran parliament speaker in Beirut
The speaker of Iran’s parliament and former navy commander, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, was visiting the Lebanese capital to fulfill his counterpart and Amal Motion chief Nabih Berri.
“I’m right here to ship a message from the individuals, supreme chief and the president of Iran to the individuals of Lebanon that, as all the time, we stand with the Lebanese individuals, authorities and resistance, and can keep by their stand in troublesome circumstances,” he advised Iranian state tv after arriving in Beirut.
Ghalibaf visited the positioning of an Israeli assault on the densely populated Basta space that killed at the very least 22 individuals, accompanied by two Hezbollah legislators, in line with the AFP information company.
He’s subsequent heading to Geneva to participate in an meeting of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, the place he mentioned he’ll focus on a shared “responsibility” to assist besieged Palestinians and Lebanese individuals along with his counterparts.
