Beirut, April 14 (IANS) Lebanon has introduced the closure of the Lebanese airspace to aviation as a result of Iranian drone assault on Israel.
“The Lebanese airspace has been closed to all plane arriving, departing, and crossing Lebanese airspace, briefly and as a precaution, as of 1 a.m. on Sunday till 7 a.m.,” the Lebanese Minister of Public Works and Transport Ali Hamieh mentioned on Saturday night.
Iran has launched dozens of unmanned aerial autos (UAVs) towards Israel which arrived within the Israeli airspace within the early hours of Sunday, Xinhua information company reported.
In the meantime, Hezbollah introduced early Sunday that its fighters focused the Israeli Kela barracks with dozens of Katyusha rockets within the occupied Syrian Golan.
Hezbollah mentioned in an announcement that it launched its assault in response to the Israeli enemy’s assaults on secure villages and cities in southern Lebanon.
Israeli warplanes on Saturday night time continued their airstrikes in a number of areas in southern Lebanon, paralleled with violent artillery shelling concentrating on many cities and villages, Lebanese navy sources informed Xinhua information company.
The navy sources, who spoke anonymously, mentioned that Israeli warplanes carried out 5 raids in southeast Lebanon.
Eyewitnesses from border villages confirmed to Xinhua, “Dozens of highly effective explosions reverberated in many of the border areas, and a number of other drones flew at low to medium altitudes within the airspace of southern Lebanon.”
Furthermore, Israeli artillery fired practically 80 shells towards greater than 21 cities and villages within the jap, central, and western sectors of the border space in southern Lebanon.
The navy sources reported that in addition they monitored the crossing of a number of drones from Lebanon to Israel, most of which had been intercepted by the Israeli Iron Dome.
Tensions alongside the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on October 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah towards Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ assault on Israel on October 7 final yr. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery towards southeastern Lebanon.
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