While waiting for the Israeli retaliation to the Iranian attack the day before with 180 missiles – “It made a serious mistake and will pay for it,” warned its Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu -, the Israeli army announced this Wednesday the sending to Lebanon of more troops, suggesting an expansion of the scale of their ground incursion. The 98th division (the elite corps of the Army that fought for months in Gaza) is now joined by an infantry division, an armored brigade and Golani soldiers, a famous brigade. Israeli aircraft have again bombed the Shiite suburb of Beirut, where the shelling could be heard during the early hours, and ordered the evacuation of more towns in southern Lebanon.
The provisional balance made by the Lebanese Ministry of Health puts 55 dead and 156 injured as a result of the Israeli air offensive in the last 24 hours in cities and towns in the south of the country.
The Israeli army indicates that it will continue to carry out the “limited and localized” incursions – without entering Beirut or the southern cities – that it announced on Monday and whose real scope and number of clashes that have caused is unknown. In the capital, he attacked “weapons production facilities and terrorist infrastructure,” he said. No casualties have yet been reported. The day before, overshadowed by the Iranian attack, there were 82, according to the country’s Ministry of Health.
This Wednesday and for the first time, the Hezbollah militia reported crossfire within Lebanon with Israeli troops, which it claims to have caused casualties and forced them to retreat. “An Israeli enemy infantry force attempted to infiltrate the village of Odeiseh, confronted it, inflicted losses and forced it back,” he said in a statement.
Another ally of Iran, the Houthis of Yemen, claim to have joined the attacks against Israel this Wednesday, with three Quds 5 rockets against military posts, according to their military spokesman, Yahya Saree. The Israeli army has not confirmed it, as it has done on previous occasions: the Houthis have occasionally launched missiles and drones against Eilat and Tel Aviv and Israel has twice bombed an important port city, Hodeida. “We will not hesitate to expand our military operations against the Israeli enemy and against those who support him until the aggression against Gaza and Lebanon ends,” said Saree.
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