Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
Israel closed the airspace over its northern region on September 21, just a day after targeting senior members of Hezbollah in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The closer, which will last a full day, includes skies from the city of Hadera, some 48 kilometers north of the city of Tel Aviv city and around 38 kilometers to the south of the port of Haifa, northward.
Head of air intelligence at the Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement that “due to security tensions, all infrastructures in the domestic space are closed to all types of aircraft” to facilitate the operations of the Israeli Air Force.
The move came just a day after an Israeli strike hit the southern Beirut suburb of Dahiyeh, killing Hezbollah top military commander Ibrahim Aqil, who led the elite Radwan Force, and several other senior members of the group, including the commander of the Central Training Unit Ahmed Wahbi.
According to the latest update by the Lebanese Health Ministry, the strike killed at least 31 people, including three children and seven women, and left more than 68 others wounded.
The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) said that at least ten senior members of Hezbollah were killed alongside Aqil, while the group has mourned the commander and 15 other members since the attack. It is unclear however how many of them were killed in Dahiyeh.
Hezbollah and its allies in Lebanon have been launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of the Gaza Strip since the start of the Israeli war on the Palestinian enclave last October.
The IDF latest operations against Hezbollah, including the strike on Dahiyeh and the sabotage attack that targeted communication devices used by the group’s members a few days earlier, indicate that Israel wants to launch a full-on war against Lebanon.
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