Israeli army threatens to attack ambulances in southern Lebanon

After hitting UN peacekeepers, subject claims Hezbollah is utilizing ambulances for fighters portion offering nary evidence.

The Israeli service has threatened to deed ambulances successful confederate Lebanon, claiming they are being misused by Lebanese equipped radical Hezbollah, and besides ordered much villages to evacuate.

The informing came aft Israeli forces hit positions of the United Nations Interim Force successful Lebanon (UNIFIL), injuring peacekeepers.

Israeli service spokesperson Avichay Adraee connected Saturday alleged that “Hezbollah elements are utilizing ambulances to transport fighters and arms.” He did not supply immoderate impervious of his accusation.

“We telephone connected aesculapian teams to debar interaction with Hezbollah members and not to cooperate with them,” helium said. The Israeli subject “affirms that the indispensable actions volition beryllium taken against immoderate conveyance transporting equipped individuals, careless of its type”.

Adraee besides warned residents of confederate Lebanon not to spell backmost to their homes arsenic Israeli troops continued fighting Hezbollah fighters successful the area.

“For your ain protection, bash not instrumentality to your homes until further notice. Do not spell south, anyone who goes southbound whitethorn enactment his beingness astatine risk,” helium said.

The Israeli subject besides ordered residents of 22 confederate Lebanese villages to evacuate to areas northbound of the Awali River, according to a connection released connected Saturday.

Fighting ongoing

Israeli aerial attacks proceed to intensify crossed Lebanon, portion Hezbollah has responded by launching rockets astatine Israel.

Since September 23, erstwhile Israel expanded its struggle against Hezbollah by bombarding confederate Beirut and different strongholds of the radical with deadly aerial strikes, much than 1,200 radical person been killed successful Lebanon.

An Israeli aerial raid connected Baysarieh, a colony successful Sidon province, killed 3 people, including a 2-year-old and a 16-year-old, and injured 3 others, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health said.

In Baalbeck-Hermel province, located successful the Bekaa Valley, 5 much radical were killed and 5 wounded successful further aerial attacks.

“It has been an aggravated nighttime of bombing astatine galore locations successful the Bekaa Valley successful Lebanon arsenic was the lawsuit yesterday,” said Al Jazeera’s Assed Baig, reporting from Chtoura. “What we person been witnessing is Israeli attacks connected residential buildings.”

Hezbollah said it utilized “qualitative missiles” to deed an Israeli subject basal making weapons southbound of Haifa, successful its seventh onslaught connected Israeli positions connected Saturday.

The radical said the onslaught occurred astatine 6am (03:00 GMT) and included artillery occurrence targeting Israeli soldiers adjacent the Lebanon border, the motorboat of a “guided missile” astatine the Ramyah site, and aggregate rocket barrages aimed astatine Israeli positions.

Lebanese troops patrol astatine the tract of an Israeli aerial onslaught successful Beirut, Lebanon, connected October 11, 2024 [Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters]

Iran parliament talker successful Beirut

The talker of Iran’s parliament and erstwhile aerial unit commandant of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, was visiting the Lebanese superior to conscionable his counterpart and Amal Movement person Nabih Berri.

“Iran is acceptable to assistance the war-stricken, displaced and wounded radical nether the supervision of the Lebanese authorities and nonstop assistance if an aerial corridor tin beryllium opened by the authorities for Beirut,” helium told a associated quality league alongside Berri.

Ghalibaf visited the tract of an Israeli onslaught connected the densely populated Basta country that killed astatine slightest 22 people, accompanied by 2 Hezbollah legislators, according to the AFP quality agency.

He is adjacent heading to Geneva to instrumentality portion successful an assembly of the Inter-Parliamentary Union, wherever helium said helium volition sermon a shared “duty” to assistance besieged Palestinians and Lebanese radical with his counterparts.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies