Eurasia Press & News
This past week Hezbollah claimed responsibility for 77 attacks on military and civilian targets
in Israel, including the first attacks on the Jezreel Valley, the Lower Galilee and the suburbs
around Haifa. An attempt by a Hezbollah terrorist squad to plant an explosive device bomb
near an IDF post was foiled. Two IDF soldiers were killed in the attacks and five civilians were
injured; substantial property damage was reported.
Israeli Air Force aircraft expanded their attacks on Hezbollah terrorist targets and operatives
in south Lebanon and the Lebanon Valley, including preventive strikes to prevent rockets from
being fired and missiles from being launched into Israeli territory. In an attack in Beirut,
Ibrahim Aqil, head of Hezbollah’s operations and commander of the Radwan Force, was killed,
along with the top commanders of the Radwan Force. Hezbollah announced that 65 operatives
and commanders had been killed during the past week.
The IDF warned the residents of south Lebanon to evacuate their homes in preparation for
attacks on Hezbollah weapons hidden in civilian sites. As a result, there was a mass departure
of residents from south Lebanon to the north of the country.
