BEIRUT, Nov. 5 (Xinhua) — Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati on Sunday slammed Israel for its assaults in southern Lebanon earlier within the day, killing and injuring civilians.
Israel’s assaults “will not go unnoticed” and Lebanon’s authorities will submit a grievance to the UN Security Council, Mikati mentioned in a press release launched by the Council of Ministers.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Foreign Affairs Minister Abdallah Bou Habib introduced that his ministry is making ready to submit an pressing grievance to the UN Security Council in response to Israel’s assaults on the Ainata-Aitaroun highway, killing three youngsters and their grandmother.
The violent confrontations on the Lebanese-Israeli borders proceed. On Sunday, two Hezbollah fighters and 4 civilians have been killed whereas 5 different folks have been injured.
A press release launched by Hezbollah reported that two of its fighters have been killed, elevating the group’s complete casualty to 64 members.
Al-Mayadeen native TV channel reported {that a} missile assault was fired by an Israeli drone, hitting a automobile within the southern village of Aitaroun and killing three youngsters and their grandmother whereas injuring their mom.
On a distinct be aware, Lebanese navy sources advised Xinhua that an Israeli drone on Sunday fired an air-to-surface missile on two ambulances belonging to Scouts of the Islamic Message within the neighborhood of the southern village of Tayr Harfa, injuring 4 paramedics heading to a hospital within the area.
The Lebanese Health Ministry on Sunday condemned the Israeli assault towards paramedics, saying “the barbaric act not only flagrantly violated international humanitarian laws, but also disregarded for the most basic principles of humanity and morality.”
The navy sources added that Israeli heavy artillery on Sunday fired six shells on the village of Yohmor on the jap fringe of the southern metropolis of Nabatieh, which is eighteen kilometers from the borderline separating Lebanon and Israel.
Moreover, the Israeli military expanded its navy operations to areas exterior the borderline in southern Lebanon, in a outstanding escalation that got here within the wake of Hezbollah’s use of latest surface-to-surface missiles.
For its half, Hezbollah introduced that its fighters attacked with missiles Israeli websites in Bayad Blida website, a home within the Al-Motella settlement with Israeli military members inside in northern Israel, along with Israeli positions in al-Dhahira, Aitaroun, Al-Bustan, Al-Abad, Al-Malikiyah and Jal al-Alam in southwest Lebanon.
The Lebanon-Israel border witnessed elevated pressure for practically 4 weeks after Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets towards Shebaa Farms on Oct. 8 in help of the Hamas assaults on Israel the day past, prompting the Israeli forces to reply by firing heavy artillery towards a number of areas in southeastern Lebanon.