Since the start of the war between Hamas and Israel in Gaza on October 7, 2023, the international community fears that the conflict in the region will expand to include the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other .

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Edited by| Paul Mitchel

 

Middle East  section -  CJ journalist

 

South Lebanon - October,19,2023

 

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"We are on alert and vigilant in the North, if Hezbollah makes a grave mistake, we will respond with great force,"Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari said.

Clashes on the Lebanese border between Israel and Hezbollah continue on a daily basis, but have so far been limited to several towns along the Lebanon-Israel border.

The exchange of fire left twenty Lebanese dead, most of them militants, as well as Reuters journalists and civilians. Three people were also killed on the Israeli side. Israel began evacuating thousands of residents from 28 northern towns following the border clashes.

This is at a time when the Lebanese Hezbollah warned its "opponents" that it has become "thousands of times stronger" than before, as its fighters exchange fire on the border with Israeli forces in violence fueled by the war between the Palestinian Islamic resistance movement Hamas and Israel.

In light of the mutual strikes, on Thursday morning, October 19, Israel targeted the villages of Kafr Shuba and adeisa in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah announced that it had targeted an Israeli army post on the border, and announced that two of its operatives had been killed.

For its part, the Israeli army announced the elimination of a "terrorist cell", as it put it, which fired mortar shells towards its territory from Lebanon. He said in a statement that he responded to the firing of anti-tank missiles targeting villages in northern Israel.

Earlier on Wednesday, sirens sounded in northern Israel and the army said that "nine shells crossed Lebanese territory towards Israel". He also announced that he had killed at least four attackers during an infiltration attempt on his border with Lebanon.