This Sunday, Israel ordered the evacuation of 14 more communities in the north of the country, near the border with Lebanon, as attacks on military infrastructure by the Shiite militia Hezbollah intensify.
“The National Emergency Management Authority of the Ministry of Defense and the Israel Defense Forces announce the expansion of the state-funded evacuation plan to other communities in northern Israel,” a military spokesperson said.
The 14 communities added to the plan are: Snir, Dan, Beit Hillel, She’ar Yashuv, Hagoshrim, Liman, Matzuva, Eylon, Goren, Gornot HaGalil, Even Menachem, Sasa, Tziv’on and Ramot Naftali, at the same time. since there was an increase in the launching of anti-tank missiles and rockets against Israeli territory.
This Sunday, the Israeli army had already accused Hezbollah of seeking a military escalation in the border area, running the risk of dragging Lebanon into a war, after new exchanges of fire between Israel and the Shiite group.
“Hezbollah attacks and drags Lebanon into a war from which it will gain nothing, but in which it risks losing a lot,” warned Israeli army spokesman Jonathan Cornicus on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
On Friday, Hezbollah claimed Israel will pay a heavy price every time it launches a ground offensive in the Gaza Strip and said it already has troops on the border, deputy leader Naim Kassem said.
Hamas officials have said that if Israel begins a ground offensive in Gaza, Hezbollah will join the fighting.
There are concerns that Hezbollah, backed by Iran and which has a weapons arsenal consisting of tens of thousands of rockets and missiles, as well as different types of drones, may try to open a new front in the war between Israel and Hamas with an attack massive. stopover in northern Israel.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack in southern Israel on October 7 with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a total siege. to the territory with a cut in the supply of water, fuel and electricity.
The Rafah terminal, in the south of Gaza and the only passage to Egypt, will allow humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian territory.
The conflict has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
Source: TSF
