Hezbollah: "Clashes with Israeli soldiers on the border with Lebanon". A leader of the al-Qassam brigades killed

Saeed Atallah Ali leader of the Ezzedine al-Qassam brigades, military wing of Hamas, was killed in an Israeli raid in northern Lebanon together with his wife and two young daughters. The Palestinian movement confirmed this to the local media. “We promise our people to avenge the pure blood that has been shed and to confirm that our next set of responses will be in deeds before words,” Hamas said in a statement.

Ali was killed in his home in Beddawi refugee camp, near Tripoli, in northern Lebanon, hit for the first time since the start of the war.

At least 18 Hamas militiamen have been killed in Lebanon and among these, by the group’s own admission, its leader in Lebanon Fatah Sharif Abu al-Amine in his home in Al-Bass camp in southern Lebanon; Samer al-Hajj, eliminated in August while he was aboard a vehicle in Sidon, southern Lebanon, and in January Hamas deputy leader Saleh al-Aruri with six other militiamen in the Hezbollah stronghold in southern Beirut.

There are around ten Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon created for those who were expelled or fled during the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of Israel. By long-standing convention, the Lebanese army stays out of the camps and lets Palestinian factions handle security.

The armed movement Hezbollah reports clashes with Israeli troops on the border with Lebanon. He had previously said he had forced Israeli soldiers to “retreat” to the area. “Israeli enemy soldiers attempted to advance again towards the outskirts of Adaysseh village” and ‘clashes continue,’ the group said in a statement. The Lebanese movement also said it had hit Israeli troops with rockets in the Yarun area of ​​southern Lebanon and at two points across the border. The latest Israeli raid would have cut off the main highway connecting Lebanon to Syria. The capital of Lebanon, Al Jazeera reports, is once again in the sights of Israeli air attacks. The incident occurred after the IDF ordered residents of a southern suburb of Beirut to leave the area. The Israeli army said it attacked Hezbollah-owned buildings.

Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged cross-border fire daily for almost a year, with the movement claiming to be acting in support of Palestinian ally Hamas over the Gaza war. Israel, saying it is targeting Hezbollah in an effort to make northern Israel safe for returning displaced people, has stepped up its bombing and this week announced that its troops have begun carrying out ground raids in parts of southern Lebanon .

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IDF, a Hezbollah command hidden in a mosque hit

A command center hidden in a mosque in Bint Jbeil, in southern Lebanoninside the Martyr Salah Ghandour hospital complex, was hit during the night by the IDF. The attack, carried out with drones, was “precise” and based on intelligence sources, military sources cited by the Times of Israel said.
According to the army, the command room was used by Hezbollah operatives “to plan and carry out acts of terror against IDF troops and the State of Israel.”

Before carrying out the attack, the IDF said it sent text messages to residents and called officials in nearby villages, “demanding that all terrorist attacks carried out in the hospital stop immediately.” “Since the beginning of the war, and even more so since the beginning of limited ground activity in southern Lebanon, the IDF has made great efforts to prevent harming uninvolved civilians and civilian infrastructure, in contrast to the cynical use by of the Hezbollah terrorist organization of civilian infrastructure, including essential buildings, to carry out terrorist acts,” the IDF added in a statement.