The Israeli army announced that it had carried out several strikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday January 6, after dozens of rockets were fired towards northern Israel by Lebanese Hezbollah. “Air Force fighter jets and other IDF forces attacked a series of targets of the terrorist organization Hezbollah earlier today in the areas of Aita al-Sha’ab, Yaron and Ramya in southern Lebanon”, announced the Israeli army on the social network
In reaction to the strike which killed Hamas number 2, Saleh al-Arouri, on Wednesday south of Beirut, Hezbollah claimed on Saturday to have fired several dozen rockets towards the Meron military base in northern Israel. Follow our live stream.
Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip. According to AFP journalists, Israeli strikes sounded early Saturday in Rafah, a town at the southern tip of the Gaza Strip, where hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have taken refuge trying to escape the fighting.
Gaza has become a “place of death”, “uninhabitable” according to the UN. The Palestinian enclave, scene of clashes between Israel and Hamas for nearly three months, has become a “place of death”, alerts the UN. She is “simply become uninhabitable”and its inhabitants “face daily threats before the eyes of the world”, summarized the United Nations humanitarian affairs coordinator, Martin Griffiths. For Unicef, the war, malnutrition and the health situation have created “a cycle of death that threatens more than 1.1 million children” Gazans.
Several diplomatic visits this weekend. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is in Turkey on a regional tour, hoping to avoid a flare-up in the conflict between Israel and Hamas. In this context, the head of European diplomacy Josep Borrell is due to meet this weekend with officials in Lebanon.