'False alarm': Israeli military rules out infiltration from Lebanon

The Israeli military on Wednesday ruled out infiltration from its northern frontier with Lebanon.

As Israeli security forces battle Hamas, it is also facing conflict on its volatile northern border with Lebanon. The Israeli military has been engaged in clashes with the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah for the past four days. On Wednesday, Israel had said that a “hostile aircraft” crossed its northern frontier from Lebanon and sounded alert over the infiltration. However, soon after, the Israel Defense Forces said that the alert issued was "false".

"The alert issued nationwide on the Home Front Command app telling residents to shelter was a false alarm," the Israeli military said. "This is a mistake, there is no such instruction."

Lebanon's armed group Hezbollah started exchanging artillery and rocket fire with Israel just a day after Hamas infiltrated Israel. Hezbollah fired an anti-tank missile on Wednesday and claimed to have killed and wounded Israeli troops.

Israel confirmed the attack from Lebanon and launched a retaliatory attack. The Israeli Army shelled an area in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

Meanwhile, White House national security spokesperson John Kirby said that the United States is monitoring the Lebanon-Israel clashes, as per a report by Reuters.

He confirmed that a rocket fire was seen coming from southern Lebanon into Israel, adding that it was not in Israel’s interest to have to fight and defend on a second front.

Meanwhile, the US Embassy in Beirut said that it has not evacuated and is open and operating normally. Reports saying otherwise are false, the embassy said.

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