BEIRUT (Palestine Foundation Information Center) The Israeli army is continuing its military aggression against Lebanon with air and artillery bombardments, alongside ground incursions, for the 54th consecutive day on Friday. Hezbollah announced that, during the past 24 hours, it has been confronting Israeli forces attempting ground incursions in southern Lebanon, confirming the bombardment of Israeli military sites and settlements with intense rocket fire.
In a new massacre, 12 Lebanese, most of whom were members of the Civil Defense, were martyred as a result of Israeli aircraft targeting the Civil Defense center in the town of Douris in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, on Thursday evening. Efforts are still ongoing to clear the rubble and search for missing persons.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health reported that the number of martyrs from the ongoing Israeli military aggression against Lebanon since October 8, 2023, has risen to 3,305, in addition to 14,244 injured.
The governor of Baalbek-Hermel, Bashir Khadr, said that “the Douris center was targeted while more than 20 Civil Defense personnel were inside the building.” He emphasized that “a massacre occurred in Douris with the targeting of the Civil Defense center, and contact was lost with the center’s head, Bilal Raad,” before announcing his death.
The Israeli airstrike resulted in the destruction of vehicles and equipment at the regional Civil Defense center, which was in the vicinity of the attack, according to the National News Agency. Additionally, Israeli aircraft carried out the most intense strike since the beginning of the war on Nabatieh, destroying a large commercial center and its surroundings in the city.
The Lebanese news agency reported that four people were martyred on Thursday evening due to an Israeli airstrike on a house in the town of Al-Bayad in the Tyre district. The occupation army also conducted airstrikes on the towns of Anqoun and Arab Salim in southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese news agency reported the deaths of two individuals in the strike on the town of Qana in Tyre, where Civil Defense teams from the Islamic Scout Association were able to retrieve their bodies.
On Thursday, three Lebanese were martyred and others injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Al-Bazouriya in southern Lebanon, while two other citizens were martyred in a strike targeting the town of Al-Jumayjma. A farmer was reported dead due to Israeli shelling in the town of Al-Habbariya in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
The Israeli airstrikes resumed on the southern suburb of Beirut, causing widespread destruction to buildings, facilities, and infrastructure, especially in areas such as Haret Hreik, Ghobeiry, Shweifat, Burj al-Barajneh, Shiyah, and Mar Mikhael.
Israeli aircraft and artillery bombarded the city of Nabatieh and the towns of Majd al-Zun, Naqoura, Shamma, Mansouri, Yahmour al-Shaqif, Bint Jbeil, Hanin, Yatir, Kfarra, Sarbin, Al-Sawana, Hadatha, Shuqra, Majdel Selm, Barashit, Kounin, Aynatha, Ayn Baal, Beit Lif, Kherbet Selm, and Al-Tiri in southern Lebanon.
For his part, Hezbollah has continued to target gatherings of the Israeli occupation army, settlements, and Israeli military bases. Two soldiers were injured due to the explosion of a drone launched from Lebanon in southern Haifa, following more than half an hour of attempts to intercept it.
Israeli media confirmed that a drone fell in the area of Yaliakim south of Haifa after being launched from Lebanon, with efforts to intercept it by a helicopter lasting about half an hour. Hezbollah announced that its fighters carried out an airstrike with a swarm of kamikaze drones on the “Eliakim” base south of Haifa, which contains training camps belonging to the northern command of the Israeli army, and they hit their targets accurately.
The party also reported targeting a gathering of Israeli army forces in the settlement of Yiron and at the eastern edges of the town of Maroun with rocket fire. In a series of military statements on Thursday, Hezbollah announced the targeting of the Stella Maris naval base northwest of Haifa with a precise rocket barrage, and the bombing of a gathering of enemy forces in the settlement of Shlomi in the afternoon.
Hezbollah also shelled a gathering of enemy forces at the outskirts of the town of Adaisseh (near the reservoir) in southern Lebanon. Sirens sounded in Haifa and several settlements and areas around it, including Heila, Ma’alot, and Dovif in the Kiryat settlement area.
The spokesperson for the Israeli army announced the detection of five rockets launched from Lebanon toward the Haifa Bay area. A drone launched from Lebanon exploded in Naqoura in the western Galilee.
Hezbollah announced attacks on the settlements of Yiron and Ein Ya’qub with a swarm of kamikaze drones, which accurately hit their targets. The party also reported firing rocket barrages at two gatherings of Israeli forces between the towns of Hula and Markaba to the east, and at the eastern edges of the town of Markaba.
Additionally, Hezbollah shelled the Jal al-Alam border site and a logistical base for the 146th division of the Israeli army northeast of the settlement of Netiv HaShayara, east of Nahariya, along with rocket barrages targeting the city of Nahariya.
