Hezbollah said it had hit two Israeli tanks in the area with guided missiles and launched an attack with rockets and artillery shells against the invaders.
Israeli tanks have been advanced to a distance of about six kilometers from the border, near the city of Hiam in southern Lebanon, as reported by the Lebanese News Agency (NNA). “A large number of Israeli occupation army tanks” have been deployed on a hill east of Hiam, it said.
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it had hit two Israeli tanks in the area with guided missiles and that it had launched an attack with rockets and artillery shells against the invaders.
In the evening, the Lebanese News Agency reported that Israeli warplanes had launched strikes in Khiam.
After a year of war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has escalated its military operations in Lebanon, where since September 23 it has been launching airstrikes against Hezbollah strongholds in the south and east of the country, as well as in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut. On September 30, the Israeli military began ground operations against pro-Iranian Hezbollah.
Since September 23, when Israeli attacks on Lebanon escalated, more than 1,750 people have died, according to an AFP tally based on data from the Lebanese health ministry.
During the Israeli occupation of Lebanon, the city of Hiam housed a large prison run by the so-called South Lebanon Army (SLA) – a local militia allied to the Israeli forces.
After 22 years of occupation, Israeli troops withdrew from southern Lebanon in May 2000.
At the same time, at least eight people were killed tonight in an Israeli bombardment in Sarafad, a coastal town near Sidon in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Ministry of Health announced.
“Tonight’s raid by the Israeli enemy in Sarafad claimed the lives of eight people and injured 21 others, according to the tally so far,” the ministry said in a statement.
The city’s mayor, who spoke to the Reuters news agency, said at least 10 people had died, including women and children.
Earlier today, six people were killed and 37 injured by Israeli shelling on the outskirts of Sidon, the largest city in southern Lebanon, according to the latest tally from the country’s health ministry.
Source :Skai
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