Izrael libanoni célpontot bombázott válaszul a rakétatámadásokra
Az izraeli légierő egy libanoni célpontot bombázott pénteken válaszul az előző napon Észak-Izrael ellen végrehajtott rakétatámadásokra – közölte egy izraeli katonai szóvivő.
IDF bombs Lebanon target in retaliation for rocket attack
IDF spokesman says Air Force jets bombed terror site south of Beirut overnight in response to rocket fire from Lebanon, carrying direct hits; adds Israel holds Lebanese government accountable
Yoav Zitun
Israel’s Air Force bombed a terror target in Lebanon early on Friday in retaliation for a cross-border rocket salvo on Thursday, the IDF spokesman said. The aircraft carried out a direct hit.
The terror site bombed was near Na’ameh, between Beirut and Sidon.
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„Israel will not tolerate terrorist aggression originating from Lebanese territory,” military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner said in a statement announcing Friday’s air strike.
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Military sources said that the target was a group of tunnels that may have served as rocket launching pads but that do not belong to Hezbollah.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV reported that the IDF targeted a base belonging to a Palestinian organization in Naameh in south Lebanon. According to the report, there were no injuries and minor damage was caused to the site.
Ramez Mustafa, a Lebanon-based official with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command said the group will respond „in the right place and the right time.”
Reported site of Israeli attack in Lebanon
He said that the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, an al-Qaeda-inspired group based in Lebanon who claimed responsibility for the attack, were not at the site of the attack.
On Thursday, IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz held a situation assessment meeting with top military officers following the rocket fire from Lebanon. It is estimated that global jihad terrorists fired the rockets, but the army is pointing a finger at Lebanon.
Iron Dome battery in Galilee (Photo: George Ginsburg)
On Thursday afternoon, two air raid sirens sounded in the western Galilee after four katyusha rockets were fired at Israel from Lebanon. Sirens sounded, among other places, in Nahariya and Akko where alarms were not heard since the Second Lebanon War.
Rocket hit (Photo: Libby Hornick)
Two rockets exploded in residential areas and a recently-deployed Iron Dome battery intercepted at least one rocket. Three people suffered from shock. One 14-year-old girl sustained a light head wound from falling while running for shelter.
Photo: AFP
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed rocket fire from Lebanon in the direction of Israel’s Western Galilee, saying „We are working on all fronts,” the prime minister added; „in the north and in the south, so as to protect the citizens of Israel from these attacks.”
Netanyahu stressed that the State was „utilizing various means, in both defense and prevention, and acting responsibly. Our policy is clear – to defend as well as to thwart. Anyone who harms us should know and anyone who tries to harm us should know we will harm them back.”
Reuters contributed to this report
Részleteket mellőzve Peter Lerner arról tájékoztatott, hogy a célba vett „terrorhely” a Bejrút és Szidón között fekvő Naameh közelében található.
„Izrael nem fog eltűrni libanoni területről eredő terrorista agressziót” – mondta a szóvivő.
Libanonból csütörtök délután négy rakétát lőttek ki Észak-Izraelre. A rakétatámadások károkat okoztak, de emberéleteket nem követeltek. Az egyik rakétát kivédte a Vaskupola nevű rakétaelhárító-rendszer, egy rakéta egy Naharia és Akkó közötti kibucban ért földet, a másik kettő pedig lakatlan területen csapódott be.
Észak-Izraelben a 2006-os libanoni háború óta először ismét megszólaltak a légvédelmi szirénák és a lakosság az óvóhelyekre menekült. A támadásért egyik libanoni fegyveres szervezet sem vállalta a felelősséget, de Joáv Mordecháj, az izraeli hadsereg szóvivője szerint szélsőséges iszlamisták állhatnak az akció mögött, amelyet egyszeri, elszigetelt esetként kezelnek.
