Lebanese Hezbollah militias have joined the open conflict between Hamas and Israel with a series of attacks on Israeli positions in the border region of Shebaa Farms, while Palestinian militias and the Israeli military continue fighting in at least seven locations in southern Israel after the first night of the war that began Saturday with a massive attack launched from the Gaza Strip.

Hamas’ military wing, the Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, has confirmed that its troops, who carried out an unprecedented incursion into Israel yesterday, They continue to fight against the army in seven cities. along the border between Israel and in the enclave, including Ofakim, Sderot, Yad Mordechai, Kfar Aza, Be’eri, Yeted and Kissufim.

Sderot was one of the main sources of conflict last night after at least a dozen police officers took control of a police station in the city. After several hours of clashes, Israeli police killed all the residents and destroyed the site.

Although Sderot police have not provided data on the number of officers killed in police custody, Israeli security forces confirmed at least 56 deaths among its ranks on the first day of clashes: 30 police and 26 soldiers, including the commander of the Nahal brigade, 42-year-old Colonel Yonatan Steinberg, at the Kerem Shalom pass, near the dual border with the Gaza Strip and Egypt.

The general head of the victims is leaving for now In Israel 350 dead and 1864 wounded to this should be added 313 deaths and 1,788 injured in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest updated reports from the respective health ministries of Israel and the Palestinian enclave. The Israeli army has reported the death of at least 400 militants since the fighting began, but the Palestinians have not confirmed the figure.

It remains to be seen exactly how many Israelis are now in the hands of Palestinian militias following a spate of kidnappings that accompanied the raid.. Yesterday, Israeli security forces released figures of around fiftyHowever, a spokesman for the Palestinian militia noted that the real figure is “much higher” than the estimates proposed by Israel.

In any case, Israeli army spokesman Daniel Hagari assured that the military intends evacuate residents all border cities with the Gaza Strip within a maximum of 24 hours, amid calls for help from the public, who have been hiding in shelters or barricaded themselves in their homes since Saturday. “Terrorists are roaming freely on our kibbutz,” he told the newspaper by phone this morning. Haaretz resident of Kfar Aza. “The army must send troops immediately.”

To this we must add the counter-offensive operation launched by Israel in the Gaza Strip, which in recent hours has focused special attention on the goals of senior Hamas officials, among them is his intelligence chief, whose residence in the enclave was hit by a missile. In addition, Israel attacked Islamic Jihad branches and arsenals.

Hezbollah bombs Israeli positions ‘out of solidarity’

Meanwhile, as the United Nations feared last Saturday, the war in the Gaza Strip has spread into Lebanon as a result of an attack launched from there by Hezbollah militias on Israeli positions in Shebaa Farms; series of mortar shots as a sign of “solidarity,” according to the Shiite militia party.

According to their statement, Hezbollah militias announced attack on three Israeli military installations in the disputed Mount Dov area, during which the Israel Defense Forces reported no casualties, the newspaper reported. Times of Israel.

Specifically, Hezbollah attacked “three positions of the Zionist enemy in the occupied Shebaa farms.” in Radar, Zebdin and Rueisat al-Aalam, using numerous artillery shells and guided missiles,” reads a Hezbollah note collected by L’Orient Le Jour.

The attack took place”in solidarity with the victorious Palestinian resistance And heroic Palestinian people According to the text, this was part of “the path to the liberation of occupied Lebanese land.”

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There were explosions confirmed by UN forces in Lebanon, UNIFIL has been on high alert since yesterday, in particular, “several rockets were fired from southeast Lebanon into Israeli-occupied territory in the Kafr Chouba area, as well as artillery fire from Israel towards Lebanon.”

In response, the Israeli army shortly thereafter announced a drone attack on Hezbollah infrastructure in the area and, according to a military source, it was a tent that the squad had set up in Israel several months ago.

(according to information from Europe Press)