“We have the capacity to bring Lebanon back to the Stone Age, but we don’t want to do it (…) We don’t want a war.” Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has been clear, Israel does not want conflict with its Lebanese neighbor, but his government is preparing “for any scenario”. “Hezbollah understands very well that we can inflict enormous damage on Lebanon if a war is launched”, declared Minister Yoav Gallant, Thursday June 27, at the end of a visit of several days to Washington. Follow our live stream.
A spread of conflict would be “potentially apocalyptic.” The extent of the war in Lebanon what Israel is doing against Hamas in the Gaza Strip would be “potentially apocalyptic”warned the UN humanitarian chief, Martin Griffiths, from Geneva. “I see this as the spark that will ignite the powder”he underlined, believing that a conflict involving Lebanon “will win Syria…will win the others” territories of the region, leading to consequences “unpredictable”.
New bombings in Gaza and Lebanon. Bombings in different areas of the Gaza Strip took place overnight from Wednesday to Thursday, while in Lebanon, five people were injured in an Israeli airstrike on a building in Nabatiyeh (south), according to the agency Lebanese official Ani.
Attacks in Syria and Yemen. Two people were killed in an Israeli strike shortly before midnight, the official Sana agency announced, citing a military source. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (OSDH), the strike targeted a service center of a foundation affiliated with Lebanese Hezbollah and pro-Iranian groups, near the capital Damascus. In Yemen, the US Army Middle East Command claimed to have destroyed a “radar” Houthi rebels, allies of Hamas, who target international maritime traffic in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden in “ssolidarity” with the population of Gaza.