Israel Determined to ‘Change Security Reality’ with Lebanon

An Israeli artillery battery stationed near the border with Lebanon (AP)
An Israeli artillery battery stationed near the border with Lebanon (AP)
TT

Israel Determined to ‘Change Security Reality’ with Lebanon

An Israeli artillery battery stationed near the border with Lebanon (AP)
An Israeli artillery battery stationed near the border with Lebanon (AP)

Amid continuous violations of the rules of engagement, Israeli drones on Friday, and for the second day in a row, targeted the vicinity of the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh.
Meanwhile, the commander of the northern region in the Israeli army, Ori Gordin, announced that Israel aims to change the security situation in the north, near the border with Lebanon, in a way that allows “the safe return of residents.”
Army spokesman Avichay Adraee, on his account on X platform, quoted Gordin as saying that Israel was determined to change the security reality, as it continues “to prepare to expand the scope of the war.”
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that on Friday, an Israeli drone launched a raid on a deserted house in the Al-Sokra neighborhood at the northern entrance to the town of Yahmar Al-Shaqif in Nabatieh, and fired two missiles in two batches that penetrated the roof of the house, causing significant damage.
Later on Friday, Lebanese media reported a second raid targeting a site between the towns of Arnoun and Yahmar in Nabatieh.
Yahmar, which is about 8 km away from the city of Nabatieh, was subjected, for the first time on Thursday, to an Israeli drone strike that hit a car in what Israeli media claimed was an assassination attempt of a Hezbollah military official.
Artillery shelling also hit the town of Kafr Kila, located in the Marjayoun District, while Israeli warplanes carried out a raid on the Hamul area in Naqoura, south of Tyre. The bombing targeted the outskirts of the town of Aitaroun in the Bint Jbeil District and the vicinity of Ali Al-Taher Hill.
Hezbollah, for its part, announced the targeting of spying equipment in Israel’s Dovev Barracks, as well as in the vicinity of the Al-Malikiyah site and the Ramta site.
The head of Hezbollah’s Sharia Committee, Sheikh Mohammad Yazbek, said that the “Islamic Resistance on our front in the south has recorded successive achievements in striking the Zionist enemy.”
Yazbek said during the Friday prayers: “The envoys will only hear one word; the beginning of the solution starts from Gaza, and threats will not work.”

 

 

 

 

 

 



Arab League to Convene Emergency Meeting to Address Israeli Threats Against Iraq

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
TT

Arab League to Convene Emergency Meeting to Address Israeli Threats Against Iraq

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)
Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul Gheit at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo, Egypt. (Reuters file photo)

The permanent delegates to the Arab League will convene an extraordinary session on Sunday, chaired by Yemen, in response to a request from Iraq.

Arab League Assistant Secretary General Ambassador Hossam Zaki said on Saturday that the meeting will focus on a memo from the UN Security Council president, which contains the Israeli occupation's claims of increased attacks from Iraqi territory since September, SPA reported.

"The General Secretariat of the Arab League received Iraq's request to hold an extraordinary session of the Arab League Council.”

“The request was circulated among member states for consultation, and it was agreed to hold the meeting tomorrow at the General Secretariat," Zaki said, adding that several Arab countries have expressed support for Iraq's initiative.