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Hezbollah attacks an Israeli base on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar
2024-10-12 11:42:00 / BOTA
Hezbollah said on Saturday it had fired rockets at an Israeli military base south of Haifa as Israelis were celebrating Yom Kippur, the most important holiday in the Jewish calendar, when Jews fast and pray.
The Iranian-backed militant group said in a statement that its forces targeted "explosives factories".
Israel has not commented on Hezbollah's claims, as diplomatic criticism of Israel mounts over a second attack on a United Nations peacekeeping site in Lebanon.
Two UN peacekeepers of Sri Lankan origin were injured in the incident, the mission said on October 11.
The Israeli military said it struck a threat to it, about 50 meters from the UN position.
On October 10, two Indonesian soldiers, engaged as part of the UN mission, were injured as a result of another Israeli attack on an observation tower in the Lebanese town of Nakuora.
The incidents have been strongly condemned by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres and Israel's Western allies, prompting the Israeli military to pledge a "thorough investigation".
Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon against Hezbollah, the US-designated terrorist group, have raised fears of a major regional war.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on October 11 that Washington is working to prevent a major war in the Middle East, and called on Israel to protect civilians after 11 people were killed as a result of two attacks on two buildings in downtown Beirut.
Hezbollah's Al-Manar television said after the attacks that attempts to kill Wafiq Safani, a senior security official for the group, had failed.
Reports say that Safa was not in any of the targeted buildings. Safa heads a department responsible for working with Lebanon's security agencies, the sources said.
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