Hezbollah has confirmed that it has targeted a movement of Israeli forces in the vicinity of the southern Lebanese town of Aitaroun with artillery shells for the second time, according to a report by the Cairo News Channel.
This comes as part of the escalating tensions on the Lebanese-Israeli border, where clashes and shelling between the two sides have increased since the start of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip in October 2023.
The UNIFIL has been operating in the area since 1978 under a UN mandate to preserve peace on Lebanon’s southern border, but rising military tensions has raised fears that the conflict could expand to southern Lebanon more broadly.
It has repeatedly called for restraint and military de-escalation as international parties are attempting to prevent a military conflagration in the region.
Edited translation from Al-Masry Al-Youm
