Two people were killed yesterday in an Israeli airstrike on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Aitaroun, the Lebanese National News Agency reported. NNA agency, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The Israeli army said in a statement that its soldiers had identified a "Hezbollah" in the area of Aitarun, which was liquidated.
Israeli forces fired two rockets at a cafe and a gas station, causing significant damage, the NNA reported.
The Lebanese armed group "Hezbollah" said yesterday that it responded to the Israeli attack by firing rockets at the northern Israeli city of Malkiya, and later a salvo of Falak-2 rockets. against a military command center, again in northern Israel, Reuters points out.
A security source told Reuters that the group had used this type of missile for the first time, having previously fired Falak-1 missiles. in dozens of previous shelling of Israel.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu last night urged his rival Benny Gantz, a member of the military cabinet, not to resign from the “emergency government” after the minister gave him an ultimatum amid disagreements over the post-war political order in the Strip Gaza, reported France Press, quoted by BTA.
„I appeal to Benny Gantz: do not leave the emergency government”, Netanyahu wrote on the social network "X", adding that it is time for “unity, not division”. Earlier yesterday, Gantz announced that he was canceling a press conference at which Israeli media had expected him to possibly announce his resignation.
Israel's military operation in the refugee camp "Nuseirat" in the Gaza Strip will not affect the deal to exchange Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, said Mohammed al-Hindi, deputy head of the "Palestinian Islamic Jihad" group, which is an ally of "Hamas", reported Reuters, quoted by BTA.
Al Hindi said in a comment on the "Hamas" "Al-Aqsa" television, that the conditions presented for the conclusion of the agreement remain the same.
The Iranian Foreign Ministry blamed the Israeli attack on a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip during a hostage rescue operation on world governments and the UN Security Council for "their inaction", Reuters reported, quoted by BTA, saying quoted Iranian state media.
"These appalling and outrageous crimes /.../ are the result of the inaction of governments and responsible international bodies, including the UN Security Council, in the face of the ongoing eight months of war crimes and violations by the Zionist regime (Israel)&ldquo ;, said Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani.
Earlier today, the Israeli army said it was striking Palestinian militant infrastructure in the area of the Nuseirat refugee camp. in the central part of the Gaza Strip, and the Ministry of Health in the Palestinian enclave reported dozens of dead and wounded.
At the same time, the Israeli military announced that they had rescued four hostages in two separate locations in the central part of the Gaza Strip. In a televised press conference, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said that in the special operation to rescue the four hostages from their captors by the Palestinian Islamist movement "Hamas" hundreds of Israeli soldiers were involved.
Later, the media relations office of the "Hamas" The government in Gaza said, quoted by Reuters, that at least 210 Palestinians were killed and about 400 wounded in today's Israeli strikes in the area of the Nuseirat camp.