JERUSALEM/BEIRUT: The Israeli military said on Tuesday it had launched targeted raids against Hezbollah in southwest Lebanon, expanding its ground operations along the country’s coastline after deploying more troops.
On its Telegram channel, the military said its 146th Division began “limited, localized, targeted operational activities” against Hezbollah targets and infrastructure in southwestern Lebanon.
While the military has not disclosed how many troops are operating inside Lebanon, the Times of Israel newspaper reported the number likely exceeds 15,000.
The 146th division is the first reserve division to operate in southern Lebanon as part of the ongoing operations against Hezbollah, the military said.
It previously served in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank.
Israeli ground operations inside southern Lebanon began on September 30.
The military describing them as “limited, localized, and targeted raids” aimed at dismantling Hezbollah’s infrastructure.
Initially concentrated in the south and southeast of Lebanon, the Israeli military operations have now been extended to the southwest.
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Israel army begins operations against Hezbollah in southwest Lebanon
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Israel army begins operations against Hezbollah in southwest Lebanon
- The military said its 146th Division began “limited, localized, targeted operational activities” against Hezbollah targets
- Israeli ground operations inside southern Lebanon began on September 30
90 civilians killed in drone strikes on Sudan’s Kordofan in two weeks: UN
- Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council that the strikes have injured more than 140 people
GENEVA: Drone strikes killed nearly 100 civilians and injured many more in Sudan’s conflict-torn Kordofan region in just over two weeks, the UN rights chief said Monday.
“In a period of just over two weeks to February 6, based on documentation by my office, some 90 civilians were killed and 142 injured in drone strikes,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He said the strikes, which were carried out by both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s regular army, “struck a World Food Programme convoy, markets, health facilities and residential neighborhoods in South and North Kordofan.”
Turk also said the atrocities unleashed on El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region last October were a “preventable human rights catastrophe."
He warned that they now risked being repeated in the neighboring Kordofan region.
“My office sounded the alarm about the risk of mass atrocities in the besieged city of El-Fasher for more than a year ... but our warnings were ignored,” he said.
He added that he was now “extremely concerned that these violations and abuses may be repeated in the Kordofan region.”
“In a period of just over two weeks to February 6, based on documentation by my office, some 90 civilians were killed and 142 injured in drone strikes,” Volker Turk told the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva.
He said the strikes, which were carried out by both the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and Sudan’s regular army, “struck a World Food Programme convoy, markets, health facilities and residential neighborhoods in South and North Kordofan.”
Turk also said the atrocities unleashed on El-Fasher in Sudan’s Darfur region last October were a “preventable human rights catastrophe."
He warned that they now risked being repeated in the neighboring Kordofan region.
“My office sounded the alarm about the risk of mass atrocities in the besieged city of El-Fasher for more than a year ... but our warnings were ignored,” he said.
He added that he was now “extremely concerned that these violations and abuses may be repeated in the Kordofan region.”
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