Yesterday evening, Tuesday evening, Lebanon's Hezbollah denied claims by the Israeli occupation army that the party's marching unit or air force officer assassinated Ali Hussein Burji, amid escalating clashes between the two sides, threatening an escalation of the conflict.
The party said in a statement, “The Zionist Organization's broadcasting authority and the Israeli occupation army's military spokesman said that the enemy assassinated what was sometimes called an officer of the Hezbollah marching unit and an air force officer.”
“The marching wing of the party or the officer of the air force was never subjected to any assassination attempt as claimed by the enemy,” the statement added.
A military spokesman for the occupation army, Daniel Hagari, announced that an air strike in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah marching unit officer.
Hagari said, as Israeli newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported on its website, “We targeted him using an Israeli air force aircraft. Burji led dozens of attacks using drones against Israel.”
Expansion of wars
Earlier, Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz, in a televised interview, announced yesterday that Israel was responsible for the killing of Hezbollah leader Wissam al-Tawil.
In the event of a major war, Katz warned, Lebanon would “receive a blow 50 times stronger than what it received in the Second Lebanon War (in 2006)”.
According to observers, the situation in which Hezbollah adhered to certain rules in the military conflict with Israel, a front that supports the Gaza Strip, collapsed with the escalation of the wars with Israel following the massacres it carried out in Lebanon.
Clashes between the two sides escalated after an Israeli assassination of Tel Aviv's Saleh al-Aruri, deputy head of Hamas's political bureau in the southern suburbs of Beirut, and key Hezbollah field commander Wissam Tawil on January 2. His car was raided in southern Lebanon on Monday.
Yesterday evening, an official Israeli channel reported that the health ministry had instructed hospitals in the north to accommodate thousands of wounded amid rising tensions with Lebanese Hezbollah.
Khan Channel, affiliated with the Israel Broadcasting Authority (Official), reported that Health Ministry Director General Moshe Bar Shiman Dov had instructed all hospitals to switch to emergency mode within 24 hours. So.
This means that, when necessary, hospitals will move to protected areas (shelter) and release patients who can be discharged, he explained, preparing to receive more infected people.
