The fear of an escalation between these two border countries is growing day after day.
:quality(50)/2023/07/06/64a68815cd1a7_placeholder-36b69ec8.png)
Published
Reading time: 1 min
:quality(50)/2024/02/14/000-34jc6fz-1-65cce8b420fac714717940.jpg)
The Israeli army announced on Wednesday February 14 that combat aircraft launched “a series of raids on Lebanon” neighbor, raising fears of an escalation between the two border countries after months of daily exchanges of fire in the context of the war in Gaza. Since the day after the bloody Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, which sparked the war in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah has targeted Israeli military positions on the border in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement, its ally.
Israel, for its part, regularly bombs southern Lebanon and carries out targeted attacks against Hezbollah officials. The army announced that it had targeted “Hezbollah terrorist targets” in the areas of Jabal el Braij, Houneh, Dunin, Adchit and Sawaneh.
Israeli soldier killed
These raids come after a rocket fired from Lebanon injured several people in northern Israel on Wednesday, according to Israeli medical sources. According to the Magen David Adom emergency services, seven people were injured, including five in the town of Safed. An AFP photographer saw doctors and soldiers evacuating an injured person from Safed hospital by military helicopter to another facility.
According to the Lebanese newspaper The Orient By Day, at least four people died in these Israeli strikes. An Israeli soldier was also killed in a rocket attack from Lebanon on a military base in northern Israel, the Israeli army announced in a statement.
