Sirens in the north: the northern front continues to heat up. As reports come in of a delay in the cease fire and exchange of hostages for prisoners with Hamas deal, a heavy salvo was fired from Lebanon, apparently by Hezbollah, towards targets in northern Israel. Per reports, this is the heaviest such bombardment in the north since the war began. No casualties have been reported.
The terror organization had previously announced the death of five members last night, killed in an Israeli strike on the village of Beit Yahoun in southern Lebanon. One of these was Abbas Mohammad Ra’ad, the son of the Hezbollah Parliamentary Faction leader, Mohammad Ra’ad.
According to Lebanese sources, another senior leader in the Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force was also killed in the strike. The total number of Hezbollah members killed in Israeli Air Force strikes since the war began is now 84, though estimates of the actual number are higher than the official one.
The Lebanese Health Ministry reported their own statistics, and aside from Hezbollah’s dead, there are 350 wounded enough to require hospitalization or significant medical treatment, most if not all of them likely Hezbollah members struck by IDF attacks.
The Lebanese ministry also revealed that close to 50,000 people have fled southern Lebanon, which is under the military control of the terrorist organization, towards the center and north of Lebanon, seemingly for fear of a wider war in the area between Israel and Hezbollah.