Israel has also announced several infiltration efforts from Lebanon, which it said it foiled. Hezbollah has released videos showing snipers destroying Israeli surveillance cameras along the heavily fortified border zone.
The Lebanese branch of Hamas, the militant group that controls Gaza, claimed responsibility for the attacks, but the vast majority of rockets so far have come from Hezbollah.Īt least a dozen Hezbollah fighters have been killed by Israeli shelling, the militia group announced.
Thursday saw the single largest barrage of rockets launched from Lebanon into Israel. He then heard the death announcements of three men from his village: all members of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s strongest political party with an Iranian-backed paramilitary that last waged major battles with Israel in 2006. Jordanian King Abdullah II and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi warned that the conflict “threatens to plunge the entire region into a catastrophe,” according to a statement.įor Fattouh, word reached him that the Israeli shelling had reached the outskirts of his village, Aitroun, about 18 miles southeast of Tyre. In Gaza, people are on the move from Gaza City and elsewhere, fearing an expecting Israeli invasion. In northern Israel and near the Gaza border, villages and farms have been emptied. They were among nearly 4,000 displaced people who have reached Tyre, a coastal city 12 miles north of the border with Israel and another way station for those fleeing a conflict that has widened steadily since the deadly Hamas incursion into Israel on Oct. They drove away, expecting to never see their home again. When Israeli bombardment reached his friends’ house in a town nearby – in response to rockets from areas controlled by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia – he wrapped his daughter’s arms around his neck. “I packed 12 boxes of milk, diapers, some canned goods.” The day he saw Israeli airstrikes begin to rain down on Gaza, he packed seven bags for himself and his 14-month-old daughter Jana and secured them to his motorcycle in case they needed to dash. TYRE, Lebanon – Mohammed Fattouh didn’t wait for the war to possibly reach his own backyard in southern Lebanon.
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