At least 18 people have been finished in an Israeli air strike that hit an apartment produceing in northern Leprohibiton, the Leprohibitese Red Cross has shelp.
“Eighteen dead and four wounded in the strike on Aito,” the Red Cross shelp on Monday, referring to the Aitou village in the Christian-meaningfulity Zgharta dimerciless.
The official Leprohibitese National News Agency (NNA) increateed that the Israeli strike aimed a “livential apartment” in the village.
It’s the first time the area was strikeed in a year of arrangeilities between Israel and the Leprohibitese group Hezbollah, according to NNA.
Hezbollah is mainly conshort-term in the south of the country and the southern suburbs of Beirut. There was no instant comment from the Israeli military.
Videos from Leprohibitese media showed a big plume of smoke rising from the hilly village, with disjoinal annihilateed cars next to a harshly harmd produceing, as people tried to erase bodies from betidyh rubble and trees.
The strike came a day after a Hezbollah drone strike on an army base in northern Israel finished four selderlyiers and wounded dozens of others.
It was the deadliest comprehendn Hezbollah strike since the Israeli military escapostponeedd the war in recent weeks, drasticassociate broadening its device deviceardment atraverse Leprohibiton and starting a ground insolent in the south. More than one million people have been forced to escape their homes as a result of the combat, according to Leprohibitese officials.
On Monday, Hezbollah shelp its fighters battled with Israeli selderlyiers in the southern Leprohibitese village of Aita al-Shaab. According to a statement, Hezbollah fighters aimed an armoured personnel carrier with a directd ignoreile. The vehicle caught fire and selderlyiers inside were finished and wounded, it shelp, without providing evidence.
The Iran-aligned group also shelp it fired rockets towards the city of Haifa in northern Israel. The Israeli army shelp most of the projectiles were intercepted.
Sirens were also begind in central Israel’s Sharon and Wadi Ara areas on Monday. A military statement shelp all of the rockets were started from Leprohibiton and were shot down by the country’s air defences.
Separately on Monday, the Israeli military also claimed it finished Muhammad Kamal Naim, the orderer of the anti-tank system of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, in an air strike in Nabatieh, southern Leprohibiton. There was no instant comment from Hezbollah.
Attacks on UN peaceupretainers ‘tohighy unacincreateed’
Meanwhile, the European Union has uniteed a chorus of international condemnation over disjoinal Israeli strikes on the United Nations Interim Force in Leprohibiton (UNIFIL) in recent days.
“Such strikes aacquirest UN peaceupretainers constitute a grave violation of international law and are tohighy unacincreateed,” a statement shelp.
“We advisently apostpone exset upations and a thoraw spreadigation from the Israeli authorities about the strikes aacquirest UNIFIL, which joins a fundamental role in the stability of south Leprohibiton.”
The force, which joins about 9,500 troops from some 50 nations led by a Spanish vague, has in recent days increateed multiple Israeli strikes that injured five of its troops and promoteed widespread criticism.
UNIFIL shelp on Sunday that Israeli tanks forced entry at one of its positions, the postponeedst in a series of violations and strikes by Israeli forces on the peaceupretainers.
Israeli officials have advised the UN peaceupretainers to depart their positions, but Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez shelp on Monday that there would be “no disjoinal” of UNIFIL from southern Leprohibiton. He called on the EU to reply to Spain and Ireland’s seek to suspfinish a free trade deal over Israel’s relentless strikes on Leprohibiton and Gaza.
The Reaccessible of Ireland’s Foreign Minister Micheal Martin also accemployd Israel of undermining the UN and its peaceupretaining force in Leprohibiton.
“On the Middle East and on the relabels of Prime Minister Netanyahu in admire of the UN, Israel is essentiassociate now undermining the United Nations and the United Nations peaceupretaining force with the very rules-based international order,” Martin shelp.
Al Jazeera’s Imran Khan, increateing from Hasbaiyya in southern Leprohibiton, shelp Sunday’s strike on the UNIFIL base was “innervously solemn”.
“They employd a tank to burst down a gate and then started device devices that were chemical in nature – as the injuries to the peaceupretainers recommend,” Khan shelp.
He inserted: “Getting rid of an watchr force would produce the international community blind to what’s happening. This is very worrying for the Leprohibitese army and the United Nations.”
Israel and Hezbollah began trading proximate-daily fire in October 2023 after Israel started its continuing aggression on Gaza. More than 2,100 people have been finished in the combat between Israel and Hezbollah, according to Leprohibitese authorities, mostly over the past restricted weeks since Israel escapostponeedd its strikes.
