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On 1 December, Hezbollah claimed five attacks on the Israel–Lebanon border. [212] The IDF shelled Hula, killing two civilians, [213] and the village of Jebbayn, killing an additional person. [214] The IDF also struck a Hezbollah site and a Hezbollah cell preparing to carry out an attack near Malkia.
That evening, the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) and United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) withdrew from the Israeli-Lebanese border to the north to a distance of 5 kilometres (3.1 mi; 2.7 nmi) from the border, and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) declared that the communities of Metula, Misgav Am and Kfar Giladi are a closed military ...
In response, Hezbollah, who described the attack as a possible declaration of war by Israel, launched a rocket attack on northern Israel a few days later. [ 50 ] [ 51 ] On 20 September 2024, tensions further rose after Ibrahim Aqil was killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut , along with other senior commanders from the unit.
Israel has not claimed responsibility for the operation, but Hezbollah laid the blame squarely on its adversary, and two U.S. officials told NBC News that Israel was behind the attack.
Israel reported at least 30 rockets being fired in which the IDF fired back at the sources. [82] Hezbollah and the Al-Qassam brigades also conducted four cross-border attacks into northern Israel. [83] Hezbollah deputy general Naim Qassem said that the group could be forced into wider conflict over Israeli attacks in Gaza. [84]
The Lebanese militant group Hezbollah said it launched a drone attack early Monday on northern Israel that the Israeli military said wounded two Israeli troops. The violence came amid fears of an ...
On 23 September 2024, Israel began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon as part of the ongoing Israel–Hezbollah conflict with an operation it code-named Northern Arrows. [a] Since then, Israel's attacks have killed over 700 people, [5] injured more than 5,000, [6] [7] [8] and displaced hundreds of thousands of Lebanese civilians.
Gantz said he conveyed that Hezbollah's heightened aggression and attacks mean that Israel must "remove" the threat from northern Israel. Gantz's statement singled out the Lebanese state, not just Hezbollah, and called for international pressure on Lebanon to stop attacks on its southern border.