After hitting UN peacekeepers, army 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 Pressure 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 army “affirms that the required actions shall be taken towards any automobile transporting armed people, no matter its kind”.
Adraee additionally warned residents of southern Lebanon not to return to their houses as Israeli troops continued fighting Hezbollah fighters within the space.
“In your personal safety, don’t return to your houses till additional discover. Don’t go south, anybody who goes south could put his life in danger,” he mentioned.
The Israeli army 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.
Preventing 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 towards 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, situated within the Bekaa Valley, 5 extra individuals had been killed and 5 wounded in further air assaults.
“It has been an intense night time of bombing at many areas within the Bekaa Valley in Lebanon as was the case yesterday,” mentioned Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting from Chtoura. “What now we have been witnessing is Israeli assaults on residential buildings.”
Hezbollah mentioned it used “qualitative missiles” to hit an Israeli army 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 web site, and a number of rocket barrages geared toward Israeli positions.
Iran parliament speaker in Beirut
The speaker of Iran’s parliament and former army commander, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, was visiting the Lebanese capital to satisfy 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 informed Iranian state tv after arriving in Beirut.
Ghalibaf visited the location of an Israeli assault on the densely populated Basta space that killed at least 22 people, 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 talk about a shared “responsibility” to assist besieged Palestinians and Lebanese individuals together with his counterparts.