Israel confirms naval blockade on Lebanon
The Israeli military has imposed a naval blockade on Lebanon.
Earlier, Israeli forces intensified their attacks in Lebanon, with airstrikes that blasted the country's only international airport and the Hezbollah TV station in what was Israel's heaviest air campaign against Lebanon since the 1982 invasion.
At least 22 civilians were killed in overnight Israeli attacks on southern Lebanon, including a family of 12 in the village of Dweir, the country’s leading TV station LBC reported. Other TV stations, including Hezbollah’s al-Manar, reported 27 killed, including 10 children.
Police did not confirm the overnight casualties.
In a strike in the southern suburbs of the capital Beirut, an Israeli missile hit the building housing the studios of Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV in Haret Hreik district this morning, said the channel’s spokesman Ibrahim Farhat. He had no details, but the station’s manager Abdullah Kassir told Voice of Lebanon radio that one person was hurt.
The station continued to broadcast, reporting that an Israeli rocket had hit a “minor transmission unit”.
In northern Israel, thousands of civilians spent last night in underground shelters as Hezbollah fired rockets across the border. A 40-year-old Israeli woman was killed and five people were wounded in the rocket attacks, the Israeli army reported.
The fighting erupted yesterday after Hezbollah attacked Israeli positions on the southern Lebanese border, capturing two Israeli soldiers. Eight other Israeli soldiers were killed in the fighting and Israel promised harsh retaliation, blasting bridges and roads in southern Lebanon throughout yesterday.
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