No white smoke surrounding the American proposal for a truce in the conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, while Lebanese officials said they were studying the option presented. Meanwhile, clashes and strikes continue on both sides of the border, as well as in Gaza, where the Israeli army has been at war with Palestinian Hamas since the bloody attack launched by the terrorist movement October 7, 2023
Information to remember
⇒ Strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut after an Israeli call to evacuate
⇒ Civil Defense in Gaza announces 20 deaths in Israeli strikes
⇒ Flares fired near Benyamin Netanyahu’s home
Three arrests after flares fired near Benjamin Netanyahu’s home
Three suspects arrested after two flares were fired Saturday evening near the private residence of the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahuwho was not at the scene, the police and the Shin Beth (internal security service) indicated this Sunday morning. No information has filtered out on the identity of the suspects or their motivations.
The court ordered a ban on the publication of information on the investigation or the identity of the suspects for a period of 30 days, the press release said. Around 7:30 p.m. (local time) on Saturday, two flares landed in the courtyard in front of the Prime Minister’s residence, according to the police and the Shin Beth who spoke of “a serious incident” and “a dangerous escalation”.
Gaza: Civil Defense announces 20 deaths in Israeli strikes
The Palestinian Civil Defense in Gaza announced this Sunday morning the death of 20 people, including four women and three children, in Israeli airstrikes, which also left dozens injured, in the Gaza Strip. The deadliest strike, which left ten people dead, targeted a house in the al-Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza, Civil Defense spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal told AFP.
At least one woman died and ten people were injured in a separate strike on another house in the camp, he added. Five other people were killed and 11 injured by a “missile launched by an Israeli drone this morning in eastern Rafah”, in the south of the Palestinian territory, the spokesperson said. Four other people – “three women and a child” – were killed in a nighttime strike against a house in the west of the Nusseirat camp (center), he said.
Lebanon: strikes on the southern suburbs of Beirut after an Israeli call to evacuate
New airstrikes, at very short intervals, targeted the southern suburbs of Beirut early this Sunday morning, according to images from AFPTV, the day after intensive bombings in the area where the Israeli army says it is targeting Hezbollah installations. . After three successive strikes on three different sites, a thick cloud of white smoke formed above buildings in the southern suburbs, according to AFPTV. Throughout the day on Saturday, the Israeli army shelled the area.
Shortly before Sunday’s raids, the Israeli army called on residents to evacuate the neighborhoods of Hadath, Bourj al-Barajneh and Chiyah, in the southern suburbs, assuring them that they were “close to infrastructure and interests of Hezbollah. The Lebanese national news agency Ani reported that “enemy aircraft” carried out a “violent strike in the vicinity of Saint-George hospital” in Hadath. Likewise, a strike hit “a residential building […] near the church of Mar Mikhail in Chiyah”, specifies Ani.
This Sunday at dawn, the Israeli army carried out several strikes on villages in southern Lebanon, including seven on Jebchit in less than two hours, according to Ani. For its part, Hezbollah reported in a press release nighttime fighting with the Israeli army near the town of Chamaa, approximately five kilometers from the border. Hezbollah fighters “ambushed the armed forces of the Israeli enemy who were advancing on the eastern outskirts of Chamaa,” according to the statement, reporting fighting “with automatic weapons and rockets.”
Israel says around 80 projectiles fired by Hezbollah
Around “80 projectiles” were fired from Lebanon towards Israel on Saturday by the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, supported by Iran, the Israeli army announced. “Approximately 80 projectiles fired by the terrorist organization Hezbollah crossed the border from Lebanon to Israel today,” said in a statement the Israeli army, which itself carried out multiple strikes on the same day on the suburbs. south of Beirut, stronghold of Hezbollah, and on the city of Tire (southwest of Lebanon).