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2019-08-28 Israel-Palestine-Jordan
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Israeli air force hits Palestinian base in Lebanon
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| More on this story about the attack on the PFLP-GC camp from yesterday. |
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Israeli drones bombed a Paleostinian base in eastern Leb near the border with Syria early Monday amid rising tensions in the Middle East, the Lebanese state-run National News Agency and a Paleostinian official said.
The strike came a day after an alleged Israeli drone crashed in a stronghold of the Lebanese Death Eater group Hezbollah in southern Beirut while another went kaboom! and crashed nearby.
Lebanese President Michel Aoun
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...president of Leb, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Hizbullah...
told the UN Special Coordinator for Leb, Jan Kubis, that the attacks violate a UN Security Council resolution that ended the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah.
"What happened is equal to a declaration of war and gives us the right to defend our illusory sovereignty, independence, and the safety of our land," Aoun said in comments released by his office on Monday.
"We are people who seek peace and not war, and we don’t accept that anyone to threatens us though any means."
UN front man Stephane Dujarric said later on Monday that the UN took note of Aoun’s statements and reiterated the UN appeal to stop violations of the Security Council resolution and implement all its provisions.
"The UN calls on the parties to exercise maximum restraint, both in action and in rhetoric," Dujarric said.
The Lebanese state news agency report said there were three strikes after midnight on Sunday, minutes apart, that struck a base for a Syrian-backed group known as the Popular Front for the Liberation of Paleostine - General Command, an ally of Hezbollah.
Abu Wael Issam, an official with the Paleostinian group in Leb, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named that the strike was carried out by Israeli drones and did not inflict any casualties. He accused the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is using such attacks to boost his credentials ahead of Israel’s parliamentary elections next month.
He said the Paleostinian group’s "alternatives are open in confronting the Zionist enemy" but didn’t specify how or if it would retaliate. A statement issued later by the group said "the Zionist aggression" will not stop the group and its allies.
There was no immediate comment from Israel on the strike, which the Lebanese news agency said hit near the village of Qusaya in the eastern Bekaa Valley.
Airstrikes by Israel against Paleostinian factions in Leb, such as this one, have been rare in the past years.
Hezbollah leader His Eminence Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah
...The satrap of the Medes and the Persians in Leb...
said on Sunday that his group will confront and shoot down any Israeli drones that enter Lebanese airspace from now on, raising the potential for conflict amid heightened regional tensions.
Nasrallah also vowed to retaliate to an Israeli Arclight airstrike
 ...KABOOM! ...
inside Syria that took place late Saturday, which he said killed two Hezbollah members.
He said allowing Israel to keep flying drones over Leb would lead to a similar situation as in Iraq, where a series of attacks there targeting military bases and weapons depot belonging to Iranian-backed Shiite militias have left the country on edge. US officials say at least one of the airstrikes on the militia in Iraq was carried out by Israel.
In Saturday’s strikes near the Syrian capital, Damascus, Israel publicly stated it was thwarting an imminent dronezap against Israel by the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
The Lebanese news agency also reported that Israeli drones flew over parts of southern Leb on Monday.
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