Raid in Lebanon, hundreds of positions destroyed. Iran threatens Israel: "Our response will be overwhelming"

The Israeli army has ordered residents of the north of the Jewish state, including communities located far from the border with Lebanon, to stay near protected areas and avoid using roads. The directive was issued to residents of Katzrin, Kiryat Shmona, Safed, as well as the regional councils of Golan, Upper Galilee and Merom Hagalil.

Israeli fighters have struck in the last few hours Over 100 Hezbollah rocket launchers in southern Lebanon which were ready to be used against the Jewish state. The Israeli military said, specifying that the raids began in the afternoon and were carried out in several waves.

Iran: “Our response will be overwhelming”

The response to Israel from the so-called “axis of resistance”, the Shiite alliance supporting Hamas, will be “overwhelming” and will lead to “the complete destruction of this cruel and criminal regime“. This was promised by Iran, following the explosions of portable devices that killed 37 Hezbollah members in Lebanon and injured thousands of others, through the voice of the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Major General Hossein Salami. In a message to Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, quoted by the Iranian agency IRNA, Salami stressed that Israel will face “a crushing response from the axis of resistance” for its acts of terror in Lebanon, which are the result of the regime’s desperation.

In addition to condemning “the terrorist crime of the occupying regime, which has led to the martyrdom and mass wounding of beloved Lebanese citizens and Hezbollah fighters,” the general stated “that such terrorist acts, which are undoubtedly due to the desperation and successive failures of the Zionist regime, will soon face an overwhelming response from the resistance front and we will witness the complete destruction of this cruel and criminal regime.”

Moscow warns: ‘Avoid catastrophic scenario’

The Russian Foreign Ministry warned Israel against a large-scale operation in Lebanon and called to avoid such a “catastrophic scenario.”
“We are convinced that the launch of a large-scale military operation in Lebanon would have devastating consequences for the security of the entire Middle East. It is necessary to avoid such a catastrophic scenario,” Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said at a forum in St. Petersburg.
Quoted by TASS, she once again called on all parties involved to contain and cease hostilities. Russia, she added, is ready to “closely cooperate with regional and international partners to reduce tensions and stabilize the military-political situation” in the Middle East.
Moscow had already condemned the “unprecedented” attacks against Lebanon, calling them a “grave violation of its sovereignty and a serious challenge to international law through the use of unconventional weapons.”

The Case of the Bodies Thrown from Roofs

The Israeli military has announced an investigation after soldiers were filmed pushed the lifeless bodies of Palestinian gunmen off a roof following a gunfight in the West Bank town of Qabatiya, near Jenin. “This is a serious incident that is not in line with the values ​​of the IDF and what is expected of IDF soldiers,” the army said. Israeli troops killed four gunmen during clashes in Qabatiya this morning, while a drone strike targeted additional gunmen in a car this evening.