Air-raid sirens sounded from Haifa’s bayside suburbs to the Golan Heights on Thursday.

Earlier, the IDF shot down an unmanned aerial vehicle that had crossed into Israeli territory from Lebanon on Thursday, the IDF said.

A Hezbollah military complex was targeted during the strikes.

IDF strikes the source of Lebanese rocket fire

In addition, the IDF struck a terrorist cell that attempted to fire anti-tank missiles at Israeli territory.Israeli forces attacked another cell that fired rockets at northern Israel earlier on Thursday.

In southern Lebanon, a UN peacekeeper was hurt when a group of young men attacked a patrol and tried to stop it from moving through their village, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said Thursday in a statement.

The incident took place on Wednesday night when residents of the village of Taybeh briefly blocked the peacekeepers’ patrol traveling through the area, UNIFIL said.

The wounded man was an Indonesian soldier, a security source said. A vehicle was damaged, UNIFIL said.

It called on Lebanese authorities to investigate the attack and bring the perpetrators to justice.

In a second incident on Thursday morning, a peacekeepers’ convoy traveling to UNIFIL’s eastern headquarters was briefly blocked by residents, who let them go ahead after a brief discussion, UNIFIL said.

A Lebanese security source said a group of men had hit the UNIFIL vehicles with sticks and rocks.

The reason for the actions was not clear, but in previous incidents, local people have objected to UNIFIL peacekeepers driving military vehicles through residential areas.

There was no comment from Hezbollah, which controls security in southern Lebanon.

No peacekeepers have been killed since the escalation of hostilities. But two peacekeepers have been wounded in two separate incidents, and UNIFIL compounds and bases have been hit and damaged by mortar fire several times.

One Irish peacekeeper was killed in December 2022 when the UN vehicle he was driving in was fired on as it traveled through southern Lebanon.

The UN mission currently has about 10,000 troops drawn from 47 countries and about 800 civilian staff, stationed in 45 positions throughout a 1,060-square-km. area between the Litani River and the Blue Line.

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“A lot of conspiracy theories are now appearing. Just the other day, our television and social networks once again conveyed a message from Western media, Western journalists, and researchers that the Israeli leadership, a year before October 7 and intelligence, warned about the impending large-scale terrorist attack.

“I cannot admit that if this is true,” Lavrov continued. “Then, no precautions or preventive measures were taken. Moreover, we know how the Israeli army and Israeli security forces are always ready to carry out preventive strikes,” Lavrov said.

Lavrov also said, “It is time everyone drew a lesson from the consequences of the United States’s attempts to play at behind-the-curtain diplomacy in the Middle East. It was Washington’s policy of monopolizing mediation and undermining the international legal framework for a settlement that resulted in the current escalation in the conflict zone,” the Russian Foreign Ministry Ministry website quoted him as saying on Thursday.

“It is alarming that, according to the available information, the United States is again trying to solicit solutions that have nothing in common with international law, as it did in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and many other countries and regions, which have been left in ruins because of Washington’s opportunistic actions,” he continued.

Hamas’s response to Lavrov

The Hamas terror organization stated that they appreciated Lavrov’s comments, stating that they “stressed the importance of lifting the injustice that the Palestinians have suffered for generations so that stability can be achieved in the region.

“Lavrov’s reference to the United States’ responsibility for increasing tensions in the field of international security confirms Washington’s criminal role in the continued suffering of our Palestinian people, with its blatant bias towards the Zionist occupation. It also confirms the need for an international will, represented by the active states in the United Nations, to lift the injustice against our people.