Hezbollah is using rockets and artillery fire against Israeli soldiers trying to advance in southern Lebanon, according to the Iran-backed movement, as reported by the news agency AFP. Clashes are ongoing, according to the reports.
Earlier on Wednesday, Hezbollah reported that two attempts by the Israeli military to enter southern Lebanon had been thwarted.
Hezbollah fired tens of rockets from Lebanese territory towards Israel's northern regions early on Wednesday morning, according to the Israeli military. Some of the rockets were reportedly shot down by air defense.
According to medical reports, two people were killed by one of the rockets. Several people were injured in the attack, according to the military.
Important Stronghold
In the past 24 hours, the Israeli air force has targeted 185 Hezbollah targets in Lebanon. According to a statement from the military, the attacks were directed against military infrastructure, buildings, observation posts, rocket and drone launch sites, and weapons depots, reports Haaretz.
In recent days, there have been reports of Israeli attacks on, among other places, the Beirut suburb of al-Dahiya, which the Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari describes as an important stronghold for Hezbollah.
That's where their decisions are made, and they manufacture and hide their strategic weapons inside and under civilian buildings in al-Dahiya. al-Dahiya is not like the rest of Beirut, he says in a video clip published on Wednesday.
"Destruction and Suffering"
In a speech on Tuesday, Benjamin Netanyahu warned that "destruction and suffering" on a scale similar to Gaza awaits if Lebanon does not free itself from Hezbollah. He claimed that Hezbollah is weaker than ever before.
But according to Hezbollah's second-in-command Naim Qassem, the organization's military capacity remains intact after several weeks of Israeli airstrikes over large parts of Lebanon.
On Tuesday, Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets against Israel and promised to continue putting pressure on the country. According to the Israeli military, Hezbollah launched around 180 rockets across the border.
Israel announced simultaneously that more ground troops had been sent into southern Lebanon and that the successor to the killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah had been killed.
The parties' accounts of events in the war are difficult to confirm.
