Middle East tension: US urged Lebanon to stop Hezbollah attacks on Israel

United States on Friday he urged the government to Lebanon prevent militants of the terrorist organization Hezbollah fire rockets at Israel after this week there will be at least one attack on Israeli territory in the Golan Heights.

“We call on the Lebanese government to urgently prevent these attacks and bring the area under its control”the State Department spokesman said, Ned Prize, who also added: “We strongly encourage all efforts to remain calm.”

Hezbollah, a Shiite terrorist movement backed by Iran, has long played a powerful role in Lebanon, a country hit by economic collapse and political instability.

Price’s message came after more than ten rockets were launched today from Lebanon into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, which set off anti-aircraft alarms in several places and were retaliated by Israeli army attacks on the Arab country, in what is the second such incident in the region in just two days.

According to a military spokesperson, “at least ten rockets were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory“, most of which”they were intercepted”By the Israeli air defense system and the rest fell in an area depopulated near the disputed territory of the Shebaa farm in the Golan Heights.

The military responded to the launch with attacks from reprisals against points in Lebanese territory from which the shots were fired, the same source said.

Although until now there was no certainty as to the origin of these attacks, the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah claimed responsibility for them today and claimed it had launched “dozens” of rockets at areas close to Israeli positions in the Shebaa Farms area, contested between Lebanon and Israel.

Faced with the situation, the Israeli Prime Minister, Naftali Benet, plans to meet with the Minister of Defense in the next few hours, Benny Gantz, and the chief of general staff of the army, Aviv Kochavi, to assess what happened, his office reported.

According to the emergency services, the shooting today caused no injuries or material damage, although they mark a further escalation of tension on the dividing line between Lebanon and Israel, just two days after three projectiles were launched from Lebanon into Israeli territory on Wednesday.

The Israeli armed forces also responded to this attack with three rounds of artillery strikes and an early morning aerial bombardment, the first to have occurred against the south of the Arab country since the 2006 war.

This attack was denounced by Lebanon, which announced yesterday to file a complaint.urgent“So before the UN Security Council.

Today’s release, in turn, It is the sixth against Israel to occur from Lebanese territory in just over three months.

The increase in border tension is also occurring as the crisis in the Lebanon, which has heightened fears in Israel that the unstable situation will give wings to Hezbollah or other armed groups and lead to a new conflagration.

Israel and Lebanon are technically still at war and do not maintain diplomatic relations, and in recent years there have been intermittent and low-intensity skirmishes in the border area.

(With information from AFP and EFE)

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