ARAB AND WORLD
Tue 12 Nov 2024 5:36 pm - Jerusalem Time
Drone explosion in Haifa, Israeli missiles reach new range in Lebanon
Sirens sounded continuously in various areas in northern Israel, and the army reported that a number of drones were spotted in the area. This coincided with raids targeting sites in Lebanon - including the Akkar region - the farthest point that Israeli missiles have reached since the start of its war on Lebanon.
The Israeli army announced that its helicopters were chasing a number of drones spotted in the skies of Acre coming from Lebanon.
Yedioth Ahronoth reported an explosion in a march near a community center in Nesher, east of Haifa.
This came after the Israeli Home Front Command announced the activation of sirens in Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings, and in the western Galilee and the northern coast.
The Israeli army said earlier that its defenses intercepted a march south of the occupied Syrian Golan coming from the east.
The Israeli army also confirmed earlier that it intercepted a march that infiltrated from the east into the Wadi Araba area in southern Israel.
The Israeli Broadcasting Authority also said that air interceptions took place in Eilat, southern Israel, while the Islamic Resistance in Iraq said that it had attacked a military target south of the occupied territories and another north of them with drones.
Israeli raids
On the other hand, Israeli raids continued on several towns in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health said that eight people were killed and 14 injured in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential building in the town of Ain Yaacoub in the northern Akkar Governorate last night.
A security source told Agence France-Presse that the building destroyed by the raid was inhabited by a displaced family from southern Lebanon, noting that the targeted person was one of its members and a member of Hezbollah.
The head of the union of municipalities in the region - to which the town belongs - confirmed to the agency that the raid targeted "a two-story house inhabited by displaced people," adding that this was the first time that this area, which is more than 100 kilometers from Lebanon's southern border, had been targeted.
The Ministry of Health also announced the martyrdom of 7 people in an Israeli raid on the Sidon district in southern Lebanon.
Al Jazeera's correspondent said that Israeli raids targeted, during the past hours, the surroundings of the towns of Kfar Reman and Siddiqin, and the towns of Shama, Majdal Zoun, Dabaal, Jabal al-Batm, and Zebqin in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli army issued new warnings to residents to evacuate a number of buildings in the southern suburb of Beirut.
Meanwhile, Israeli Defense Minister Yisrael Katz said there would be no ceasefire and no respite in the strikes against Hezbollah.
Katz, who held a meeting with the Public Defense Forum on Monday, added that Israel will continue to strike Hezbollah with all its might until the war's goals are achieved.
Katz pointed out that Israel will not agree to any arrangement that does not guarantee its right to reject and prevent what he called "terrorism" on its own, and to achieve the goals of the war in Lebanon of disarming Hezbollah, withdrawing it beyond the Litani, and returning the residents of northern Israel safely to their homes.
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Drone explosion in Haifa, Israeli missiles reach new range in Lebanon