Lebanon
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi orders the reinforcement amid an explosion of terror emanating from Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Judea and Samaria.
Terrorists in Strip fire 44 projectiles towards southern Israel overnight • Hamas launches 34 rockets from Lebanon at the Jewish state • “Israel’s response, tonight and in the future, will exact a heavy price,” says Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Two Israelis in Nahariya were injured by shrapnel.
“Any military or security Zionist attack on Lebanon will be met with a fast response from the resistance,” said the Hezbollah terror chief.
An Israeli army engineering vehicle carrying out routine work was hit by the blast.
The terrorist was not spotted by soldiers at lookout posts, nor did he set off the detection system, said the military.
The military did elaborate or provide a definitive account of how the terrorist penetrated Israel’s border.
Joelle Maroun, who was removed, had tweeted: “Every Palestinian has to kill one Jew and the case is closed” and made pro-Hitler jokes.
It hasn’t conducted an attack in Israel for 17 years, said Liram Koblentz-Stenzler of the global far-right extremism desk at the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism and a visiting Yale fellow.
The device that wounded a man in northern Israel was planted by a terrorist who infiltrated from Lebanon.
The suspect, armed with a suicide vest and a rifle, was killed at a security checkpoint.
“Our peacekeepers are on the spot to de-escalate the situation,” UNIFIL says.
