The Lebanese-Israeli front, where Hezbollah and the Israeli army have been fighting since October 8, flared up this Saturday, July 27. On the Lebanese side, four fighters from the Shiite party were killed in an Israeli raid. In the Golan, occupied and annexed by Israel, Haaretz reports ten deaths, aged 10 to 20, in the fall of a projectile on a soccer field in the Druze town of Majdel Shams.
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With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh
” Hezbollah terrorist organization behind rocket attack on soccer field in Majdal Shams “, the Israeli army said in a statement. For its part, an official from the Hezbollah quoted by Reuters agency denied ” any responsibility for the attack ” which killed ten people and injured 19 others.
Among the targets targeted by Hezbollah are artillery batteries in Zaoura in the Golan, Israeli battalion headquarters in the Shebaa Farms occupied by Israel and claimed by the Lebanon and in the Finger of Galilee. These regions are located on the foothills of the Syrian Golan, occupied and annexed by Israel.
Hezbollah operations intensified in the late afternoon with seven attacks in less than three hours. Earlier in the day, Hassan Nasrallah’s party had claimed responsibility for four other operations. The Shiite fighters fired more than 150 Katyusha rockets and launched several squadrons of suicide drones.
Israel “ prepares to answer »
The escalation came after Israeli aircraft destroyed two homes in the town of Kfar Kila, in the central sector of the border area, killing four fighters. Israeli artillery also pounded seven other Lebanese villages.
The Israeli army said on Saturday: prepare to answer “to Lebanese Hezbollah after this attack” the deadliest ” against civilians in Israel since that of Hamas on October 7.” We will prepare to respond to Hezbollah, we will complete our assessments and we will act ” said Army spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari.
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