Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria throughout the 1967 Mideast struggle and later annexed them in 1981.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded near daily fire since the struggle in Gaza began after Hamas’ shock assault on Oct 7 killed some 1,200 individuals and took 250 others hostage.
Israel launched an offensive that has to date killed greater than 39,000 individuals, in accordance with native well being authorities, displaced over 80 per cent of the territory’s individuals and triggered a humanitarian catastrophe within the Gaza Strip.
Over the previous weeks, the alternate of fireside alongside the Lebanon-Israel intensified with Israeli airstrikes and rocket and drone assaults by Hezbollah placing deeper and additional away from the border.
Since early October, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed greater than 450 individuals, largely Hezbollah members, but in addition round 90 civilians and non-combatants.
On the Israeli aspect, 21 troopers and 13 civilians have been killed.
