International Courant
ANKARA
The Israeli military on Friday proposed concluding its army offensive within the southern Gaza Strip at Rafah and redirecting its efforts in the direction of a brand new offensive in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli Channel 12 reported that the Israeli military really useful ending its army offensive in Rafah within the southern Gaza Strip, and heading in the direction of an “operation within the north” in reference to Lebanon.
Tensions have risen sharply between Hezbollah and the Israeli military for the reason that killing of senior Hezbollah commander Taleb Sami Abdullah in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon.
In retaliation, Hezbollah launched 150 rockets into northern Israel on Thursday, following an earlier barrage of 215 rockets and drone assaults on Wednesday.
This marked the biggest single-day rocket launch by Hezbollah for the reason that confrontations started on Oct. 8, 2023.
Tensions have risen alongside Lebanon’s border with Israel amid cross-border assaults between Hezbollah and Israeli forces as Tel Aviv presses forward with its lethal offensive on the Gaza Strip.
Israel has confronted worldwide condemnation amid its continued brutal offensive on Gaza since an Oct. 7, 2023 assault by Hamas regardless of a UN Safety Council decision demanding a right away cease-fire.
Greater than 37,200 Palestinians have since been killed in Gaza, most of them ladies and kids, and over 85,000 others injured, in keeping with native well being authorities.
Eight months into the Israeli battle, huge tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid a crippling blockade of meals, clear water and drugs.
Israel stands accused of genocide on the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to instantly halt its operation within the southern metropolis of Rafah, the place over 1,000,000 Palestinians had sought refuge from the battle earlier than it was invaded on Might 6.
*Writing by Ikram Kouachi
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