Israelis invaded southern Lebanon and Hezbollah fired hundreds of rockets

Rising tensions in the Middle East have led to chaos in air travel, with major flight delays and cancellations at regional airports in Beirut, Tel Aviv and Kuwait.

Airlines including British Airways and Air France-KLM delayed flights to Ben Gurion Airport, while Dubai International Airport in Beirut saw 85% delays and 60% of flights.

Although some flights have resumed over Iranian airspace, the general air traffic situation shows no signs of normalization before mid-October.

Dahiya, a suburb of Beirut where Hezbollah has a stronghold, has been shaking since early morning.

There is also fighting on site as part of a limited ground invasion. Israeli commandos and paratroopers entered Lebanon yesterday morning. There are initial reports of personal clashes between Hezbollah and the IDF in the border villages. Israel will strengthen its armed forces and send additional troops to southern Lebanon.

The beheaded “Party of God” continues to demonstrate violence, but without much effect. Despite losing almost its entire command structure in just ten days, Hezbollah fired a hundred rockets into Israel this morning. They fell on areas from which people were being evacuated.

Despite the opening of a new front, Israel’s hold on Gaza is not waning. Last night’s attack left at least 25 people dead in the center of the enclave.

The Israeli army announced on Wednesday that infantry and armored units would take part in ground operations in southern Lebanon, but reiterated that the operation would be limited.

A day earlier, Israel announced that its commandos and paratroopers had crossed the border, marking the first public acknowledgment of ground operations in Lebanon. The military later said its special forces had been conducting cross-border raids on Hezbollah targets for months, discovering tunnels and weapons caches under houses.

The combination of the 36th Division’s infantry and armed units, including the Golan Brigade, the 188th Armored Brigade and the 6th Infantry Brigade, shows that the operation has expanded beyond these command reconnaissances.

The Israeli army claims the aim of the ground operations is primarily to destroy tunnels and other infrastructure near the border and that there are no plans for a broader operation that would target Beirut or major cities in southern Lebanon.

The spokesman for Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, Muhammad Afifi, said its fighters had killed large numbers of Israeli soldiers in direct clashes in the south of the country.

Afifi held a press conference on the latest developments in the battlefield in the south of the country in the southern part of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, more specifically in the Dahiya region, known as Hezbollah’s stronghold.

“There were open conflicts in the settlements of al-Adisa and Marun er-Ras in southern Lebanon, in which we killed a large number of Israeli soldiers,” Afifi said at a news conference attended by more than 150 journalists.

Afifi recalled that Israel had not released any information about the number of dead soldiers and stressed that the clashes in the two aforementioned settlements in the south of Lebanon were only the beginning, as Hezbollah was in “highest combat readiness” in the area. located.

He also stated that there were no weapons or military equipment in any of the buildings bombed by Israel in the Dahiya region.

According to Lebanese authorities, 1,328 people have been killed, including 104 children and 194 women, since September 17, when Izael caused the explosion of portable communications devices across Lebanon.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah was killed in a bomb attack in Beirut on September 27.

Hezbollah, on the other hand, is shelling parts of Israel and military activities have led to mass displacement in northern Israel, but also in southern Lebanon.