5/31/2024–|Last updated: 5/31/202408:39 PM (Mecca time)
The Civil Defense in southern Lebanon reported that a paramedic was killed, and another was injured, when an Israeli march targeted an ambulance belonging to the Islamic Health Authority in the town of Naqoura, while Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah confirmed that the battle of “Al-Aqsa Flood” is an existential battle for Palestine and Lebanon as well.
This targeting comes days after an Israeli strike targeted a hospital run by the Islamic Health Authority in the town of Bint Jbeil, killing two civilians, according to the hospital administration.
On March 28, the United Nations condemned the repeated and “unacceptable” attacks on health facilities and health workers who risk their lives in southern Lebanon, after ten paramedics were killed in one day.
Israeli warplanes launched two raids on the towns of Naqoura and Aitaroun.
Hezbollah attacks
Hezbollah has announced that it has carried out several attacks against Israeli targets. He said that he targeted, with assault marches, the Iron Dome platforms in the “Zaoura” camp in the occupied Golan, causing them to be damaged and to catch fire.
The party also bombed with “Burkan” missiles the “Branit” barrack and the “Al-Baghdadi” site, and targeted the “Maayan Baruch” site and the “Ramot Naftali” settlement in the Upper Galilee, and targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in the “Shomera” settlement.
Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that two missiles were fired towards the Israeli site of Zabdin in the occupied Shebaa Farms in southern Lebanon.
For its part, Hebrew media reported that the Israeli army monitored the launching of 3 missiles from southern Lebanon towards areas in the north of the country, today, Friday, causing a fire to break out.
Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper said that the army monitored the launching of 3 missiles from southern Lebanon towards the areas of Baruch and Kfar Yuval in the Upper Galilee (north).
The newspaper quoted the Upper Galilee Regional Council as saying that the missiles caused a fire in one of the sites in the Upper Galilee, without causing any injuries or damage.
The battle of existence
In the same context, Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah said that the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation concerns everyone, and that the battle, as it concerns Palestine, also means the future of Lebanon and its water and oil resources.
In a televised speech, Nasrallah considered that “the battle of the Al-Aqsa flood (which the Palestinian resistance in Gaza is waging against Israel) is a battle of existence and destiny, and Israel’s victory in it will leave very serious effects on all the peoples of the region, and its defeat will have many great effects on the region and its peoples.” “.
He pointed out that “the Southern Front (Lebanon) continues its work and is part of the battle that shapes the fate of Palestine, Lebanon and the region.”
Nasrallah pointed out that “the Prime Minister of the Israeli enemy, Benjamin Netanyahu, and his lunatics continue the war of extermination in Gaza and Palestine, in the face of the silence of countries and rulers, but thank God these crimes awaken the world.”
Nasrallah announced the implementation of an operation a few meters away from an Israeli site, saying, “If our fighters wanted to storm it, they would have entered it.”
Since last October 8, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, most notably Hezbollah, have exchanged intermittent daily bombardment with the Israeli army across the dividing “Blue Line,” resulting in hundreds killed and wounded, most of them on the Lebanese side.
The factions say that they stand in solidarity with Gaza, which has been exposed to an Israeli war since October 7 that left more than 118,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid famine and massive destruction.
Since the start of the cross-border escalation, about 446 people have been killed in Lebanon, including at least 87 civilians and 289 Hezbollah fighters, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse based on party statements and official Lebanese sources, including a number of paramedics affiliated with the Islamic Health Authority.
The Israeli side, for its part, announced the killing of 14 soldiers and 11 civilians.
