Escalation continues – Israeli attack targets Hezbollah, air defense official killed

From the Palestine Chronicle editorial board

The Israeli army announced on Saturday that it had killed an official of Hezbollah’s air defense system during ongoing exchanges of artillery fire on both sides of the border.

The Israeli army reported that it had killed “Maytham al-Attar, an official in Hezbollah’s air defense system.”

The Al Jazeera correspondent said an Israeli airstrike targeted a car near the town of Shaath in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon.

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A source close to Hezbollah told Agence France Presse (AFP) that a drone attacked a car on the road to Shaat, north of Baalbek, resulting in the death of Maytham al-Attar, a local Hezbollah official.

The official Lebanese news agency reported that one person was killed in a “hostile march that targeted a white Rapid car at the Shaat town-Baalbek district junction.”

‘Direct hits’

In response, Hezbollah launched an attack on two Israeli military positions in the occupied hills of Kfar Shuba.

The Lebanese group confirmed that it bombed the Samaka site in the occupied hills of Kfar Shuba with suitable weapons and scored a direct hit.

The party also reported that it had attacked the Ruwaysat al-Alam site in the occupied hills of Kfar Shuba with rockets, resulting in another direct hit.

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Israel’s Channel 12 reported that air defenses fired a missile to intercept a suspicious object in Safed in the Upper Galilee following a false alarm. Earlier, the occupation army reported that two soldiers were injured by rockets fired from Lebanon at the settlement of Kiryat Shmona.

Hezbollah also announced that it had bombarded “the settlement of Margaliot with a salvo of Katyusha rockets.”

Increased tensions

Since the beginning of the Israeli war against Gaza on October 7, the Lebanese Hezbollah movement has been directly involved, albeit on a relatively limited scale, in the war against the Israeli occupation.

According to Hezbollah sources, the movement carried out 1,194 military operations in the first 250 days of the war, killing or wounding more than 2,000 Israeli soldiers.

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Israel has occupied parts of Lebanon for decades and only left the country in 2000 after fierce Lebanese resistance led by Hezbollah.

The attempt to reoccupy Lebanon in 2006 failed, which Lebanon considers a major victory against Israel.

However, Israel continues to occupy parts of Lebanon, particularly the Sheeba Farms region.

Hezbollah has vowed to retake every inch of Lebanon occupied by Israel in violation of international law.

(PC, AJA)