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Hind Al Soulia - Riyadh - TEL AVIV — Israel's military has been instructed to expand its operations in Lebanon, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Thursday, after Hezbollah fired a heavy barrage of rockets at Israel overnight in a sharp escalation of the 10-day conflict.
Katz also warned Lebanon to stop the strikes or Israel "will take territory".
“Hezbollah fired heavy barrages yesterday toward the State of Israel,” Katz said in a video address.
“The IDF responded with force in Dahiyeh and against Hezbollah targets throughout Lebanon,” he added, referring to a Beirut neighborhood seen as a Hezbollah stronghold.
Israel has already issued vast evacuation orders in southern and central Lebanon, forcing hundreds of thousands of people to abandon their homes amid intense fighting along the border.
Israeli warplanes bombarded Beirut’s southern suburbs and southern Lebanon after Hezbollah launched drones and rockets at northern Israel on Wednesday night.
Hezbollah let off successive volleys of rockets and drone swarms at Israel on Wednesday night, injuring two people, with most of the projectiles either being intercepted or falling into open areas.
The attack by Hezbollah was the most intense launched by the pro-Iran group since it first fired rockets at Israel 10 days earlier, triggering a retaliatory military campaign by Israel. The rockets were launched in tandem with Iranian missiles, the first time the two coordinated their attacks against Israel since the Iran war started.
Hezbollah’s operation, dubbed “Operation Chewed Wheat”, was a sharp escalation by the group, believed to be battered by nearly two years of daily airstrikes by Israel.
Lebanon was quickly becoming the most intense site of fighting in the region as the war in Iran, launched by Israel and the US two weeks prior, continued to consume the Middle East and beyond.
Israel also carried out a strike in the early hours of Thursday in the neighbourhood of Ramlet al-Baida in central Beirut, on the corniche where many displaced families had been sleeping rough for the last week.
The strike hit the densely packed area, with videos showing at least two men lying dead on the seaside walkway. Lebanon’s health ministry said that at least seven people had been killed in the strike.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said later that they had carried out some strikes with Hezbollah.
In a statement carried by the Fars and Tasnim news agencies, the Guards said the “joint and integrated operation” involved a missile attack by Iran carried out in conjunction with missile and drone fire from Hezbollah.
The operation focused on “more than 50 targets” on Israeli territory, the statement added, including Israeli military bases in Haifa, Tel Aviv, and Beersheba.
Katz said that he had warned Lebanese President Joseph Aoun that if his government does not stop Hezbollah from firing toward Israel that “we will take the territory and do it ourselves.”
“We promised quiet and security to the northern communities, and that is exactly what we will deliver,” Katz added. — Agencies
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