ARAB AND WORLD
Sun 21 Jul 2024 9:56 am - Jerusalem Time
Loud explosions following Israeli bombing on Adloun, southern Lebanon
Israeli warplanes launched missiles at the Adloun Plain area, north of the city of Tyre, south of Lebanon, late on Saturday night.
The official Lebanese National News Agency said, "The raid on the town of Adloun targeted an ammunition warehouse." It previously referred to Israeli raids on several towns, which resulted in 3 citizens being slightly injured.
The agency reported that the Sidon-Tyre Highway was cut off in both directions and traffic was diverted to internal streets.
The bombing on Adloun - 40 kilometers north of the border with Israel - led to a series of loud explosions.
Shrapnel from the explosions flew to the villages surrounding the town, where one of them fell in the town of Burj Rahal.
Israeli aircraft also launched raids on the towns of Shehabiya, Aitaroun, Deir Saryan, and Hula.
Earlier, an Israeli drone targeted a car in the vicinity of the town of Burj al-Muluk, wounding 4 people, including children.
Targeting the Dafna settlement
For its part, the Lebanese Hezbollah announced that it bombed for the first time - with dozens of Katyusha rockets - the Dafna settlement in the Upper Galilee, in response to the targeting of civilians in the town of Burj al-Muluk in the south of the country.
The party announced that it had bombed with artillery a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Al-Manara site. Al Jazeera's correspondent also reported that missiles were fired from southern Lebanon towards Israeli positions in the Western Galilee.
For its part, the Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), announced that it had bombed, with a missile salvo from southern Lebanon, the headquarters of the “300th Brigade - Shumira” in the western sector of the Upper Galilee.
Al-Qassam said that this bombing comes in response to the Israeli massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Hezbollah entered into a confrontation with Israel following the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on October 7, 2023, and the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza.
The party gradually escalated its operations, while the Israeli army carried out deeper raids into Lebanese territory.
The Israeli authorities were forced to evacuate tens of thousands of residents from settlements near the border with Lebanon, as a result of this confrontation, which is the most violent between the two sides since the 2006 war.
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Loud explosions following Israeli bombing on Adloun, southern Lebanon