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Wednesday, 26 August 2020_Lebanese media say Israeli forces have fired phosphorous shells at areas along the country’s border with the occupied territories
Lebanon’s al-Manar television channel announced late on Tuesday that the Israeli occupation forces had fired phosphorus bombs at Lebanese territories in the southern towns of Houla and Mays al-Jabal.
Witnesses also said Israel had fired dozens of illumination flares at border villages in southern Lebanon over what the regime claimed was a "security-related incident.”
Israeli media initially said the firing was amid concerns over a possible infiltration near Kibbutz Menara in the Upper Galilee area, located near the Lebanese border and the Israeli-occupied side of Golan.
The firing of more than 30 flares was followed by orders compelling Israeli settlers in five communities to stay at home.
Israel's Channel 12 television network confirmed the report and underlined that the incident took place “as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was on vacation in the north.”
The Lebanese media also said Israeli aircraft had been spotted after violating the country’s airspace in the south.
During the past several weeks, the occupied territories have been on alert over the possibility of a retaliatory attack by Lebanon’s Hezbollah resistance movement after one of its members was martyred in an Israeli aggression on the Syrian soil last month.
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