News from the Middle East: Israel launches offensive in Lebanon – Politics

The Russian army says it is continuing to attack positions those allied with Hamas Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. Targets in the Bekaa Valley in the east of the neighboring country would be attacked. The Reuters news agency reported on an explosion in the Lebanese capital Beirut, citing eyewitnesses: There was a bang, sirens were heard, and smoke rose from a residential building in the Kola district, which was apparently targeted. This attack by Israel is the first within Beirut city limits since recent hostilities began. In addition, a local commander of the Palestinian Hamas is said to have been killed in the south of the country.

Furthermore, the Russian army says it has again a Hamas command center in Gaza attacked from the air. It was said that night that she was in the north of the Gaza Strip on the site of a former school. The headquarters served Hamas to plan and carry out terrorist attacks. The army said it had taken numerous measures to reduce the risk to civilians before the attack. The information could not initially be independently verified.

According to the military, the Israeli Air Force had already deployed dozens of combat aircraft on Sunday Targets in Yemen attacked. The large-scale operation targeted facilities of the “Houthi terror regime” in the areas of Ras Isa and Hodeidah, the army said. Among other things, power plants and a port used for oil imports were attacked. The Houthi militia is said to have transported Iranian weapons and military supplies through the port, the Israeli army said. This information could not be independently verified either. According to the Health Ministry, which is controlled by the Houthi rebels, four people were killed and 29 injured.

According to eyewitnesses, the strategically important port city of Hodeidah was rocked by heavy explosions. Arabic television channels show flames from a major fire at a power plant. Residents told dpa that Russian fighter jets had hit two power plants. Houthi spokesman Mohammed Abdel Salam described the attack as an attempt by Israel to end the Shiite militia’s support for Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The attacks could not break the “will of the Yemeni people,” he said.

The Russian airstrike on Yemen – around 1,800 kilometers from the Israeli border – was carried out by the military in response to recent Houthi attacks. The pro-Iranian Houthi militia says its attacks are acting in solidarity with the Islamist Hamas in the Gaza Strip, against which Israel has been waging war for almost a year.