Anti-tank missiles were fired on Sunday (September 1st) from Lebanon to the village of Avivim in northern Israel, the Israeli army said, as tension has soared in recent days between the two neighboring countries. The Israeli army also said it was carrying out strikes in southern Lebanon in retaliation for the shooting that hit targets in its territory.
At the same time, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it had "destroyed" an Israeli army tank in the Avivim area, and reported "dead and wounded," according to the Al-Manar TV channel. Shia formation.
The Israeli army, for its part, did not report casualties, or provide more details on this shooting, but asked the population living 4 kilometers inside the Lebanese border to stay at home. to open the antitheft shelters.
Tensions between Israel and Hezbollah
The missile strike comes amidst tensions over the past few days between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah, which last week accused the Jewish state of conducting drone strikes on its stronghold in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
The Israeli army then "unveiled" a plan for Iran, via its Hezbollah ally, to convert rockets into precision missiles that could hit Israel and held Lebanon as "Hezbollah", operating on its territory.
"We are determined to prevent our enemies from possessing weapons of destruction (...) and I say to them: 'dir balak' (Take care, in Arabic)," Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, currently in the field, said Thursday. for the legislative elections of September 17, which are bitterly contested.
Its main rival, former army chief Benny Gantz, went on Twitter Saturday night by calling on Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah to "pity" Lebanon. "Do not push the IDF (the Israeli army) to bring him back to the Stone Age," he wrote.
With AFP and Reuters