China News Service, Beijing, March 30 Comprehensive news: According to the official Palestinian news agency "Wafa", as of the 29th, Israel launched 7 attacks on the Gaza Strip in the past 24 hours, resulting in 71 civilian deaths and 112 injuries. Israeli Defense Minister Galante said on the 29th that the Israeli military will expand operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
On the 29th local time, the Israeli military air raided a car and a house in Gaza City, killing at least 20 civilians, including women and children.
In the West Bank, the Israeli army attacked a small town south of Jenin in the early morning of the 30th, killing a 13-year-old Palestinian boy and injuring two other young people.
Local sources said Israeli forces entered the town in civilian vehicles before the attack, deployed snipers on rooftops, ransacked several houses and arrested a father and son from one of the houses. Local Palestinians tried to resist, and violent clashes ensued. The Israeli army also impounded ambulances and prevented them from entering the town to transport the injured.
According to the "Times of Israel" report, the Israel Defense Forces issued a statement on the 29th saying that Israel launched a series of attacks on the Lebanese Hezbollah north of its border that morning. In one of the drone strikes, Ali Naim, the deputy commander of the Lebanese Hezbollah rocket and missile force, was killed. Naim was in a car near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre when the incident occurred.
The Israeli military said Naim was the leader of Hezbollah’s rocket field in Lebanon and was responsible for planning and executing attacks against Israeli civilians.
Lebanese Hezbollah later confirmed that Ali Naim was killed in the Israeli attack, but did not identify him.
Galante said on the 29th that Israel’s air strikes on Syria that day killed 38 people, including five Lebanese Hezbollah members and Syrian army soldiers. He said that the Israeli army will expand its operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon and extend the target locations to Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, Damascus, the capital of Syria, and beyond.
According to Reuters, two people familiar with the matter revealed on the 29th that despite the United States publicly expressing concerns about Israel's attack on Rafah, it has recently authorized the provision of billions of dollars worth of fighter jets and ammunition to Israel. The decision was made after Galante's visit to the United States.
According to CNN, U.S. officials said that high-level talks between the United States and Israel on Operation Rafah will be held in Washington as early as April 1. (over)