Israeli warplanes launched successive raids on the outskirts of Qusaya in the Beqaa, targeting three locations early Friday morning.
A strong explosion was heard in the eastern range of the Beqaa, coinciding with a low-altitude flyover by Israeli warplanes.
This marks the second targeting of the Beqaa since the ceasefire went into effect in Lebanon on November 17. Israeli warplanes previously launched a raid on the plain of the town of Tariya, west of Baalbeck, at dawn on Wednesday, December 25.
Meanwhile, Israeli army spokesman Avichay Adraee announced that fighter jets on Friday carried out “strikes on infrastructure at the Jenta border crossing on the Lebanese-Syrian border, used to smuggle weapons via Syria to Hezbollah”.
“Unit 4400, responsible for arming Hezbollah and smuggling weapons from Iran through its agents into Lebanon, is seeking to supply the group with weapons,” reads his post on X.
In this context, Adraee recalled the elimination, last October, of the head of the 4400 unit, Mohammad Jaafar Qasir, and his successor, Ali Hassan Gharib, in Damascus, as well as other leaders of the unit”.
In addition, Israeli artillery bombarded the locality of Aita el-Chaab, in southern Lebanon.
In conjunction with the ongoing Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, Candice Ardell, deputy director of UNIFIL's Information Office, said, “Yesterday morning, UNIFIL received a request from the Israeli army to evacuate an injured civilian from an area near the town of Talusa in south Lebanon."
“Shortly after, UNIFIL peacekeepers and the Lebanese Red Cross went to evacuate the civilian, an employee of a UNIFIL supplier who was on his way to work at a UNIFIL base, and took him to Tibnin Hospital,” she told the National News Agency.
Ardell reminded all parties that “civilians must be protected at all times, and any actions leading to their harm are unacceptable.”
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