Israel attacks Hezbollah in Lebanon after intercepting an “enemy aircraft”

Jerusalem, January 7 (EFE) – Israeli aircraft attacked positions of the Shiite Hezbollah group in Lebanon on Sunday, after intercepting an “enemy aircraft” that entered Israel.

The Israeli army said in a statement that its anti-aircraft system intercepted the plane last night in the Evin Menachem area in northern Israel.

He added in a statement that, as a result, Israeli warplanes launched attacks in several areas in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah targets, as a result of which explosions were detected indicating the presence of weapons at the points that were attacked.

Hezbollah fired at least 62 shells at one of its main intelligence centers in northern Israel on Saturday, in its first response to the assassination on Tuesday of the second man in the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Saleh Al-Arouri, on the outskirts of Beirut. The bombing attributed to Israel.

The Lebanese Shiite group confirmed that five of its fighters were killed in Israeli attacks on Saturday, including with white phosphorus, on a particularly violent day on the border between Israel and Lebanon.

The Israeli-Lebanese border is witnessing the greatest tension since the war between Hezbollah and Israel in 2006, following renewed aggression by pro-Palestinian militias the day after the outbreak of war between the Islamist Hamas movement and Israel in Gaza last October. Seventh.

Hostilities escalated further after the bombing that killed Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas, in Beirut on Tuesday, in an act attributed to Israel, which neither acknowledged nor denied the operation.

Israel has deployed more than 200,000 soldiers on its northern border, where the violence has also displaced thousands of residents, with about 80,000 people evacuated from communities in northern Israel and more than 70,000 fleeing southern Lebanon.