11/1/2024–|Last updated: 11/1/202406:39 PM (Mecca time)
The Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it bombed Kiryat Shmona with dozens of missiles in response to the Israeli attacks, which today, Thursday, killed medics in a health authority affiliated with the party, at a time when the American envoy Amos Hockstein was holding discussions in Beirut during which he called for calm.
Hezbollah said – in a statement – that it bombed Kiryat Shmona in the Upper Galilee, near the border with Lebanon, with dozens of missiles “in response.” On Zionist attacks on civilians.
Israeli media reported that 30 rockets and shells were fired from Lebanon towards towns in the Upper Galilee, including Kiryat Shmona.
Since this morning, the party announced a series of operations against Israeli positions and concentrations of soldiers, which it said left people dead and wounded.
The party explained that its fighters targeted Israeli soldiers with missiles in the vicinity of Al-Tihat Hill and Jabal Nadhar, killing and wounding them.
The party also targeted the Ramta site in the occupied Shebaa Farms and the Al-Malikiyah site, confirming direct casualties.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that missiles were launched from southern Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona, Margaliot and Metulla in the Upper Galilee, where sirens sounded.
Earlier today, Hezbollah announced that Israel targeted a civil defense center affiliated with the “Islamic Health Authority” in the town of Hanin, southern Lebanon, killing two people and wounding a number of people who were in the center.
The party added – in a statement – that what happened was “a blatant attack on a center that serves Lebanese citizens, provides relief, and provides care to the wounded and wounded as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression against our country and our people.”
The Islamic Health Authority said that the Israeli raid also destroyed an ambulance.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent said, “Israeli artillery bombed the vicinity of the towns of Hula, Markab, Mays al-Jabal, Blida, Aitaroun, Maroun al-Ras, and Yaroun in the eastern and central sectors of the border region.”
A call for calm
Meanwhile, US Special Envoy Amos Hockstein held discussions with Lebanese officials in Beirut, during which he called for action to avoid the situation on the border deteriorating to the worst.
Hockstein stated, “We prefer a diplomatic solution, and I believe that Lebanon and Israel want that.”
During his meeting with Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati and Foreign Minister Abdullah Bou Habib, the American envoy stressed “the necessity of working to calm the situation in southern Lebanon, even if it is not possible to reach a final solution agreement at the present time.”
Hockstein called for working to reach a “temporary compromise, so that things do not deteriorate for the worse,” according to a statement issued by Mikati’s office.
For his part, Mikati stressed “the priority of a ceasefire in Gaza, and stopping the Israeli attacks on Lebanon, and the repeated violations of Lebanese sovereignty.”
The Lebanese Hezbollah entered into a confrontation with the occupation forces following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7th and the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The confrontation escalated after Israel assassinated Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in a raid in the southern suburbs of Beirut on January 2, and the assassination of Hezbollah military commander Wissam Tawil in a raid in southern Lebanon last Monday.