Israel announced this Monday a plan to displace residents of a two-kilometer strip on the border with Lebanon, where five people were killed by gunfire from Lebanon, two of them on Sunday.
Residents of the strip, which includes 28 villages, will be relocated to public facilities, the Israeli Defense Ministry announced.
The plan was announced on the same day that the Israeli army reported that a soldier was killed on Sunday in one of the attacks with anti-tank missiles launched from Lebanon into Israel against the Nurit military post, claimed by the Lebanese Shiite militia Hezbollah. supported by Iran.
Additionally, an Israeli civilian was killed in another rocket attack, also on Sunday, against the town of Shtula, also carried out by Hezbollah.
In total, the Shiite group, which controls southern Lebanon and fought a war with Israel in 2006, fired six anti-tank missiles and nine rockets into Israeli territory on Sunday.
In response, the Israeli army attacked Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon with air and artillery, in an escalation of tension, the most serious on the border since 2006.
On Sunday, a rocket also hit the headquarters of the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon (UNIFIL), in the city of Naquora, in the south of the country, whose origin is being investigated by the United Nations, without any reports. victims. .
Israeli forces and Hezbollah have been involved in cross-border attacks, with a total of 17 deaths recorded: five in Israel – four soldiers and one civilian – and at least 12 in Lebanon, including three civilians – including a security operator. Reuters news agency camera. – four members of Hezbollah and five members of the Palestinian militias, present in Lebanese territory.
Source: TSF
