BEIRUT: Four civilians were injured on Tuesday in Israeli airstrikes on towns in southern Lebanon.
The Public Health Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Health announced that “an Israeli airstrike on the town of Majadel, a village in the Tyre district, resulted in three civilians being injured, one of them moderately wounded and transferred to the Lebanese Italian Hospital for treatment.” A child was also wounded in the strikes.
An Israeli airstrike on the town of Chihine, located at the farthest border point in the Tyre district about 100 km from Beirut, also resulted in a civilian being wounded, who was transferred to Jabal Amel Hospital for treatment.
Hezbollah announced that it “targeted newly installed surveillance equipment mounted on a crane near the Dovev barracks with an assault drone, hitting it directly.”
The militia also announced “targeting buildings used by Israeli soldiers in the settlement of Netu’a.”
The hostilities between Hezbollah and the Israeli military continued for a second day after Hezbollah’s retaliatory operation on Sunday following the assassination of its commander, Fuad Shukr.
Israeli artillery struck the southeastern area of the town of Mays Al-Jabal on Tuesday afternoon with phosphorus shells, resulting in several fires.
An Israeli military drone conducted a strike on an open area located on the outskirts of eastern Nabatieh Al-Fawqa; however, the missile failed to detonate.
At dawn, the Israeli military fired on the town of Aita Al-Shaab in the central region, leading to considerable property damage.
Throughout the night, the Israeli military deployed flares over the border villages near the Blue Line, while simultaneously conducting artillery bombardments of the towns of Dahra, Ramya, and Aita al-Shaab. Reconnaissance aircraft and drones were active throughout the night, surveying the villages in the western and central regions of the Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts. On Tuesday morning, Israeli drones were observed flying extensively over the Dahr Al-Baidar area, which links Mount Lebanon to the Bekaa Valley.
Meanwhile, media reports in Beirut stated that the “chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Charles Brown, will visit Beirut as part of a tour of several countries in the region.”
Lebanon’s caretaker minister of foreign affairs, Abdullah Bou Habib, met with the US Ambassador to Lebanon Lisa Johnson. According to the media office of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the discussions focused on the security situation along the southern border and ongoing Israeli assaults on Lebanese territory, as well as the situation in Gaza and the efforts led by the US in collaboration with Egypt and Qatar to achieve a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas.
Bou Habib discussed with Johnson the extension of UNIFIL forces’ mandate, and reiterated Lebanon’s position, emphasizing that the extension should be for another year without any amendments to the resolution.
