The variety of Lebanese troops killed in Israeli assaults since October 2023 is reported to have reached 41 after newest assault kills three troopers in southern Lebanon.
Three Lebanese troopers have been killed in an Israeli air strike on a military base in southern Lebanon’s city of Sarafand, whereas at the least 17 civilians residing close by the ability have been injured, the nation’s navy and Ministry of Public Well being stated.
“The Israeli enemy focused a military centre within the city of Sarafand within the south, which led to the martyrdom of three troopers,” the Lebanese navy stated in a publish on social media late on Tuesday.
Lebanon’s Well being Ministry stated that 17 individuals have been injured within the strike after reporting earlier that Israeli attacks throughout the nation over the earlier 24 hours had killed 28 individuals and wounded 107 – bringing the demise toll in Lebanon since preventing erupted between Hezbollah and Israel in October 2023 to three,544 useless and greater than 15,000 injured.
The Lebanese military’s spokesperson, Fadi Eid, informed The Related Press (AP) information company earlier than the assault in Sarafand that 38 troopers had been killed in Israeli strikes since October final yr. The three newest casualties carry the general demise toll within the Lebanese military to 41, the AP reported.
استهدف العدو الإسرائيلي مركزًا للجيش في بلدة الصرفند- الجنوب، ما أدى إلى استشهاد ٣ عسكريين.#الجيش_اللبناني #LebaneseArmy pic.twitter.com/QKy5BcCTYe
— الجيش اللبناني (@LebarmyOfficial) November 19, 2024
Translation: The Israeli enemy focused a military centre within the city of Sarafand within the south, which led to the martyrdom of three troopers.
On Sunday, Israeli forces bombed a Lebanese navy publish in Mari, within the southeastern Hasbaiyya province, killing two troopers and critically injuring three others.
The Israeli navy has not but commented on its newest killing of Lebanese troopers who’ve for months offered safety for Lebanese civilians and engaged in search and rescue efforts amid the preventing between Hezbollah and Israel.
Lebanon’s authorities stated on Monday that it plans to file a proper grievance with the United Nations Safety Council over “repeated assaults” by Israel on its military, and accused Israeli forces of repeated violations of international law.
Earlier on Tuesday, Italy’s Ministry of Defence reported that eight rockets hit the headquarters of the Italian contingent of the UN peacekeeping force, UNIFIL, in Chama, in southern Lebanon, and Ghanaian peacekeepers have been injured in a rocket explosion in close by Ramyah.
“4 Ghanaian peacekeepers on obligation sustained accidents as a rocket – fired most probably by non-state actors inside Lebanon – hit their base” within the village of Ramyah, UNIFIL stated in an announcement.
Although no accidents have been reported, 5 Italian troopers are being monitored within the Chama base’s medical facility after the rocket assault, Italy’s Defence Ministry stated in its assertion. Investigations are additionally beneath approach to decide the place the rockets originated and to determine these answerable for the assault, which hit some outside areas and the bottom’s provide warehouse.
Additionally on Tuesday, Argentina knowledgeable UNIFIL that it will be pulling out of the peacekeeping mission in Lebanon.
“Argentina has requested its officers to return [to Argentina],” UNIFIL spokesperson Andrea Tenenti stated in response to a query a couple of newspaper report. He declined to touch upon the explanation for the Argentinian departure, referring the query to Argentina’s authorities.
Argentina is certainly one of 48 nations contributing peacekeepers to UNIFIL, with a complete of three workers at present in Lebanon, in response to a UN web site.
UNIFIL has beforehand referred to “unacceptable pressures being exerted on the mission by way of numerous channels”, amid calls for by the Israeli navy for UN personnel to go away their bases and withdraw from southern Lebanon.
Greater than 20 peacekeepers have been injured previously two months and several other UNIFIL bases have been broken by Israeli air assaults, which Israel has claimed have been unintentional. Israel accuses UNIFIL peacekeeping bases of protecting Hezbollah fighters.
UNIFIL has rejected Israel’s calls for to evacuate from southern Lebanon for its personal security.
