After a wave of rocket launches and hours of air attacks on Gaza, Israel’s military has said that it is “striking in Lebanon” as tensions rise in the wake of Israeli commandos storming the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem this week.
The Israeli army declared in a brief statement that it was “currently striking in Lebanon” at 4:07am (01:07 GMT) on Friday. In the vicinity of a refugee camp in the southern coastal city of Tyre, explosions were reported by a Lebanese TV station.
After Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu promised in a video speech that his country’s adversaries would “pay a price for any aggression,” there were explosions in Gaza hours earlier.
In Gaza or Lebanon, there were no reports of immediate casualties or injuries.
The most recent attacks take place as tensions over Israeli military assaulting the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, using stun grenades, attacking worshippers, and ejecting them from the holy site as they gathered for Ramadan prayers, are escalating.
This year, the Jewish holiday of Passover and the Christian celebration of Easter fall during the Muslim holy month.
