The leader of the Lebanese extremist Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was informed about the plans of the Palestinian Hamas to carry out multiple attacks on the south of Israel half an hour before the start, on October 7, Figaro announced today.
According to a newspaper report, one of the leaders of Hamas, Saleh al-Aruri, who lives in Lebanon, was informed in a phone call on the morning of October 7 about the imminent attacks and was asked to inform the pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah.
Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has been clashing with the Israeli army in the border area almost daily since then, firing rockets and launching drones into northern Israel, which has led to the evacuation of most populated areas near the border.
On Wednesday, those settlements were hit by the heaviest Hezbollah barrage since the start of the war between Israel and Hamas, according to Israeli media. Missile warning sirens were sounded repeatedly in northern Israel as the rocket attacks on Roch Hanikra and Kiryat Shmona continued.
It is a major escalation of violence along the restive border and Israel’s army chief has announced that it is ready to fight Hezbollah even as fierce fighting continues in the southern Gaza Strip.
No one was injured in the Israeli rocket fire from Lebanon, and it was a response to the killing of a member of Hezbollah, his brother and daughter-in-law in an attack blamed on the Israeli army.
Hezbollah has announced that 129 members of the organization have been killed since the beginning of the intensified conflict, most in Lebanon and some in Syria. In Lebanon, 16 Palestinian operatives, one Lebanese soldier and 19 civilians, including three journalists, were also killed.
Four civilians and nine soldiers were killed on the Israeli side, Beta news agency writes.
