IDF bombs weapons depot in Syria, shells Hezbollah in southern Lebanon
By YUVAL BARNEA, REUTERSPublished: FEBRUARY 17, 2024 11:49Updated: FEBRUARY 17, 2024 22:28 Smoke rises after an Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon, as it seen from the Israeli side of the border, February 8, 2024(photo credit: AYAL MARGOLIN/FLASH90)
The strikes were a response to rocket launches from Syrian territory toward the southern Golan.
The IDF struck targets inside Lebanon and Syria over the weekend, the army announced, as part of an escalation in the North after Hezbollah killed an Israeli soldier on Wednesday and wounded several others.
In Lebanon, the IDF attacked terrorist infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in the Jabal Balat area near the border.
جيش الدفاع يغير على بنى تحتية إرهابية لحزب الله داخل لبنان ومستودع أسلحة للجيش السوري داخل سورية أغارت طائرات حربية لجيش الدفاع على بنية تحتية عسكرية لحزب الله الإرهابي في منطقة جبل بلاط حيث تم القضاء على مخرب تواجد في المكان. كما تم استهداف مبنى عسكري في منطقة بنت جبيل.…
They also struck military buildings in the Bin Jbeil area.Advertisement
On Saturday morning, the IDF bombed a Syrian Army weapons depot in the area of the town Mhajjah near the Golan Heights.
Hezbollah signaling escalation
The strikes were a response to rocket launches from Syrian territory toward the southern Golan, although they did not enter Israeli territory.
THE GOLAN Heights is the region where Cabernet Sauvignon thrives; this is the Golan Heights Winery’s vineyard at Ein Zivan. (credit: GOLAN HEIGHTS WINERY)
Hezbollah signaled on Friday it would escalate attacks on Israel as its secretary-general Hassan Nasrallah said Israel would pay a price “in blood.”
Nasrallah said “the response to the [Israeli] massacre should be continuing resistance work and escalating resistance work at the front. For our women and our children killed these days, the enemy will pay the price of spilling their blood in blood.” .
Nasrallah said the killings had increased Hezbollah’s determination to increase its “presence, strength, fire, anger” and expand its operations, he said. Israel “must expect that and wait for that.”
