The crisis in the Middle East worsens. The Israeli army has four open fronts. On its nearby borders it faces the Hezbollah militias in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, and hundreds of kilometers of its territory it encounters attacks with Iran and the Houthis in Yemen.
The situation has rapidly degenerated in recent weeks, placing the Middle East in its biggest crisis in decades, a few days before the first anniversary of the trigger, the massacre of October 7, 2023, when Hamas assaulted the border fence with Israel from Gaza. to murder 1,200 people.
While Iran’s airstrike on Tuesday night focused international attention, the most tense situation is on the border between Israel and Lebanon. The bombings that accompany the Israeli ground incursion are constant: the Israeli air offensive has killed 55 people in the last 24 hours in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. Hezbollah, for its part, has launched around a hundred projectiles and drones towards towns in northwestern Israel near the border. The map below shows verified Israeli bombings from the last two days by the Institute of War Studies (ISW).
Israel has ordered the residents of some 50 towns in southern Lebanon to leave them and go north of the Awali River, 60 kilometers from the border and 30 kilometers north of the most conflictive area, where nearly 10,000 blue helmets are deployed, about 650 Spaniards. It is also the place from which Hezbollah launches most of its projectiles against northern Israel. Tel Aviv troops affirm that they will continue to direct there the “limited and localized” incursions announced since last Monday, the real extent of which is unknown. At the moment, Hezbollah has only acknowledged one direct confrontation on Lebanese soil, in the border village of Odeiseh. It is estimated that more than one million people have fled their homes in southern and eastern Lebanon.
Israeli attacks on the Lebanese capital
Further north, Israeli aviation continues to bomb Beirut, especially in Dahiye, a Shiite suburb in the south of the city. Israel struck the center of the neighboring capital last Monday for the first time since the war between both countries in 2006.
Israel, for its part, was on Tuesday the target of nearly 180 ballistic missiles that Iran launched against Israeli soil, in retaliation for the deaths of Hezbollah leaders Hasan Nasrallah and Hamas leaders Ismail Haniya. The attack was intended to surpass the Israeli anti-missile shield. It involved the launching of about 60 more rockets than in a previous attack, when last April Tel Aviv’s defensive system neutralized all the projectiles. This time not all have been intercepted: Iran targeted some military air bases, without causing any fatalities.
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