BEIRUT (TDI): Israel attacked Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon and the later fired missile against military facilities in northern Israel on Tuesday, intensifying fears of a full-blown conflict after Lebanon witnessed deadliest day in decades.
Israel’s military claimed to have hit a number of Hezbollah targets overnight, hours after air raids against the armed group which Lebanese authorities said killed nearly 492 people and displaced tens of thousands.
While Hezbollah claimed to have hit several Israeli military targets overnight including an explosives factory 60 km (37 miles) inside Israel.
It said it had also attacked the Megiddo airfield near the northern Israeli town of Afula three separate times.
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With the region on brink of full-fledge war , over 30 international flights to and from Beirut on Tuesday were canceled, according to the Rafic Hariri International Airport’s website.
Meanwhile, Lebanese Caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati’s office said he would fly to New York, where the United Nations General Assembly is taking place. Monday.
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The intensity in clashes have enhanced fears that, most likely, the United States, Israel’s close ally, and regional power Iran, which is blamed for proxies across the Middle East, will enter into wider war in the region.
The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven major democracies said the Middle East risked being dragged into a broader conflict that no country would gain from, according to a statement released after they met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
