Israel responds to launching two rockets from Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it responded on Tuesday to two rockets fired from Lebanon into northern Israel.

“IDF artillery forces recently attacked Lebanese territory in response to rocket fire from Lebanon into Israeli territory”They said so in a message posted on Twitter.

IDF said that “One of the rockets was intercepted by the Iron Dome air defense system” while “the second rocket landed in an open space inside Israel.”

“The Lebanese state is responsible for rocket fire at night, because it allows terrorists to operate on its territory,” the Minister of Defense said in a statement this morning. Benny Gantz.

Likewise, a few minutes earlier, they announced that warning sirens had been activated in this region, although no casualties or material damage had been recorded so far.

Hours earlier, Syria claimed that its air defenses intercepted an Israeli airstrike on Monday on the town of Al Sapphira, located in the southeast of Aleppo governorate. For its part, Israel did not comment on the attack.

“Two rockets were fired from Lebanon against Israeli territory … In retaliation, Israeli artillery fired against Lebanese territory”the military said in a statement.

The last rocket fire at Israel from Lebanon came in May, as Israel waged a war against the Islamist movement Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

The Israeli trade press today emphasizes that the rockets were not fired by Hezbollah, a Shiite terrorist group based in southern Lebanon with which Israel already waged a war in 2006, but by Palestinian groups linked to Hezbollah. and the Islamist movement Hamas, which he controls. Gaza since 2007.

In fact, in recent weeks, Israel has detained dozens of young Palestinians, linked to Hamas, on the border with Lebanon for engaging in arms smuggling.

Gantz warned that Israel “will act in the face of any threat to its sovereignty or its citizens and respond according to their interests at the right time and in the right place.”

“We are not going to allow the social, political and economic crisis to become a threat to Israel’s security. I call on the international community to take measures to restore stability in Lebanon. “, he stressed.

As the crisis deepens in the neighboring country, fears have grown in Israel that the state of political instability will drag Hezbollah – backed by Iran, Israel’s main enemy in the region – and lead to a new conflagration with Lebanon, a country with which it is technically still at war and there are no diplomatic relations.

Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri resigned last week to form a new government after eight months of attempts that led to political paralysis, an economic crisis and social protests on the streets.

(With information from Europa Press and EFE)

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