FRESH ATTACKS
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported several Israeli attacks in the south Saturday (May 30), and the Lebanese military said two of its soldiers “were seriously wounded…by a hostile Israeli drone” near the southern city of Nabatieh.
The Israeli military issued fresh evacuation warnings covering villages near Nabatieh and others in the east of the country.
Hezbollah said it launched multiple attacks targeting northern Israel Saturday, and had also clashed with Israeli soldiers near Ghandouriyeh and Debbine in southern Lebanon, saying it forced them to withdraw.
The Israeli military told AFP that more than 20 rockets and drones were launched from Lebanon on Saturday.
Netanyahu announced on Friday that Israeli forces had advanced beyond the Litani River, which runs around 30 kilometres north of the Lebanon-Israel frontier, and were “hitting Hezbollah head on”.
The Lebanese health ministry says that Israeli attacks have killed more than 3,371 people since Mar 2, when Hezbollah drew Lebanon into the Middle East war in support of its backer Iran.
Hezbollah said it attacked Israel in retaliation for the death of Iran’s supreme leader in US-Israeli strikes when the war erupted on February 28.
Iran has insisted that any agreement to end the wider Middle East war also cover Lebanon.
