In yet another clash with Hezbollah<\/b>, the Israel <\/b> army attacked a religious Catholic<\/b> building in Southern Lebanon<\/b>. <\/p>\n
In the incident, the Israeli army confirmed it damaged a “religious building” in southern Lebanon, while a French Catholic association condemned the action as “deliberate” that targeted a monastery.<\/p>\n
Specifically, the Israeli army said its forces operating in the village of Yarun damaged a building at a religious site while destroying what the Israeli army described as “terrorist infrastructure” in the area.<\/p>\n
“During operations conducted (…) to destroy a terrorist infrastructure, one of the houses located in a religious site was hit and damaged<\/b>,” the army’s Arabic-speaking spokesman Avihai Andrai<\/b> said in a post on X.<\/p>\n
“There was no visible sign indicating that it was a religious building. Once clear distinctive features were identified on another building at the site, (Israeli) forces acted to prevent further damage<\/b> to the site,” he added.<\/p>\n
Official Lebanese news agency “ANI” reported yesterday, Friday, that “the Israeli army caused damage in Yarun, including a monastery, a private school, residences and shops<\/b>“. For his part, Avihai Adrai justified the presence of the Israeli army in the area by saying that “Hezbollah was firing rockets at Israel from the site”.<\/p>\nReactions from French Catholics<\/h3>\n
Denouncing the event, the French Catholic organization “The Work of the East” said in a statement that “the army ‘seized’ a monastery in Yarun belonging to the Salvatorian Sisters, a Greek Catholic religious order supported by the organization The Work of the East<\/b>“. The religious organization denounced the action as “a deliberate act of destroying a place of worship and systematic destruction of homes in southern Lebanon in order to prevent the return of the civilian population<\/b>.”<\/p>\n
Initially, Israel’s Foreign Ministry<\/b> denied that the building, described as a monastery, had been destroyed,” accompanying its statement with a photo of a two-story building.<\/p>\n
However, the incident comes days after the Israeli army announced a one-month jail sentence for two of its soldiers who vandalized a statue of Jesus Christ<\/b> in another village in southern Lebanon.<\/p>\n
However, Israel continues to advance in southern Lebanon operating against Hezbollah, despite a ceasefire<\/b> that went into effect on April 17, aimed at ending more than six weeks of fighting.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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