BEIRUT: Hezbollah mentioned on Friday (Jun 12) that its fighters had confronted Israeli forces advancing in the direction of a southern Lebanese city, as Israel pressed on with its strikes in Lebanon.
In an announcement, Hezbollah mentioned its fighters first focused Israeli troops advancing in the direction of Majdal Zoun, round 5 kilometres (three miles) from the western aspect of the border, on Thursday night “with repeated rocket barrages, forcing them to retreat”.
It then mentioned it engaged with an advancing drive there on Friday “partaking them with gentle and medium weapons and rockets”.
The group additionally claimed different assaults on Israeli troops in southern Lebanon.
The Israeli navy in the meantime issued an evacuation warning for 3 southern Lebanese villages.
Lebanon’s state-run Nationwide Information Company reported a sequence of strikes throughout the south, together with on areas not included within the Israeli warning.
An help convoy organised by the Vatican envoy to Lebanon that was headed for southern Christian villages, whose residents remained regardless of the battle, was stopped by the Israeli navy and compelled to alter course, a convoy member informed AFP on Friday.
Lebanon was dragged into the Center East conflict on March 2, when Hezbollah fired rockets at Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran’s supreme chief Ali Khamenei.
