Day: August 9, 2024

Israeli enemy warplanes conducted over midnight a number of flights over southern border villages near the Blue Line, deploying flares in the sky above the area. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

National News Agency correspondent in Sidon reported that an Israeli enemy drone targeted a jeep with two missiles near the Sidon Hisba roundabout. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

National News Agency correspondent reported that an Israeli enemy drone targeted a car at the southern entrance of Sidon. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

National News Agency correspondent reported that Israeli enemy aircraft raided the southern Lebanese town of Aita al-Shaab at around 5:45 pm today, launching two air-to-ground missiles. Additionally, NNA correspondent in Hasbaya reported that an Israeli enemy air raid targeted the area between Rashaya Al-Fakhar and Kfar Hamam. NNA correspondent in Marjeyoun reported that enemy warplanes raided the southern Lebanese town of Mhaibeb. An enemy air raid also targeted the town of Markaba - Marjeyoun District. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

An ambulance belonging to the Civil Defense of the Islamic Risala Scout Association was subjected to enemy artillery shelling in the southern Lebanese town of Mays al-Jabal, resulting in the injury of the Scout's Jabal Amel Commissioner Ali Mannah by shrapnel, our correspondent reported. Disaster Management Commissioner, Mousa Shaalan, miraculously survived. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

The annual Mass for Caritas Lebanon, Zgharta-Ehden chapter, will be celebrated by Bishop Joseph Naffah, the Patriarchal Vicar of Jebbeh and Zgharta-Ehden dioceses, at St. George Church, Ehden. He will be assisted by Monsignor Stephan Frangieh and Father Michel Abboud, President of Caritas Lebanon. 3:00 pm Condolences will be received for late Wafa Ali Ammar, mother of caretaker Minister of Culture, Judge Mohammad Wissam Mortada, and widow of Adnan Abdel Karim Mortada, at the Association of Specialization and Scientific Guidance in Ramlet Al-Bayda until 6:00 pm. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on Friday announced in a statement that its fighters carried out an aerial attack using a squadron of strike drones against the command center of the newly established Coastal Battalion of the Western Brigade in Lehman. The operation, which targeted the positions of Israeli officers and soldiers, was a response to the Israeli enemy's assaults and assassinations in the towns of Hanawi and Naqoura. The statement confirmed that the drones accurately hit their targets, resulting in confirmed casualties. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

The 'Islamic Resistance' announced in a statement, 'In support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, our mujahideen targeted, at 01:25 pm on Friday, August 9, 2024, the enemy's Al-Samaqa site in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kfar Shuba, with rocket weapons, and achieved direct hit." The ''Islamic Resistance'' also announced in another statement: "in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance, and in response to the Israeli enemy's attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes, the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted on Friday, August 9, 2024, a building used by the enemy soldiers in the Manara settlement with appropriate weapons." Source : National news agency - Lebanon

The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon on Friday said in a statement that its fighters launched Falaq missiles at the headquarters of the 769th Brigade in the Kiryat Shmona barracks. The attack was carried out in support of the resilient Palestinian people in Gaza and their steadfast resistance, and in response to the Israeli enemy's recent assassinations and attacks, particularly in the towns of Naqoura and Hanawi. Source : National news agency - Lebanon

At a historically peculiar moment for Lebanon, the Military Technical Committee for Lebanon - MTC4L, under Italian leadership, continues its action of support to the Lebanese population, this time paying attention to the little ones. During the past days, infact, in the context of humanitarian initiatives, the Committee has made food donations, involving some locations in different and important Lebanese cities. The Franciscan convents of the Custody of the Holy Land of the cities of Beirut and Tripoli were involved, providing material for communities in southern, central and northern Lebanon. Moreover, in these circumstances, MTC4L donated food - kits for the most needy and, on a day entirely dedicated to it, food items to children. In this virtually itinerant route, the Military Technical Committee, thanks to the support of the motherhouse of NGO mentioned above, has not only provided humanitarian support but also given smiles to those who, at the moment, suffers from deteriorating security conditions an d the very heavy economic - financial crisis. The donations will also provide maintenance for the Terra Sancta Summer Camp, a recreational and convivial reality where children play and have fun away from everyday worries, and where religious differences, which reflect the religious heterogeneity of Lebanon, find a perfect space for synthesis, blithe and gregarious. MTC4L, a multilateral humanitarian and capacity building initiative led by the Major General Diodato Abagnara, operates in full compliance with the UN resolutions, bilateral and international missions already present on the territory and is currently composed by the following 8 partner countries: Italy, United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain and the Netherlands. Source : National news agency - Lebanon