By Najia Houssari

Attacks by the Israeli army on Lebanese territory escalated on Thursday, prompting Lebanese President Joseph Aoun to order the army to confront such aggression.

Israeli forces carried out heavy airstrikes on the outskirts of Aaichiyeh, Jarmaq and Khardale, and a municipal employee was killed in the border town of Blida.

The strikes followed an earlier raid by Israeli warplanes on the village of Al-Labouneh, near the town of Naqoura, just 200 meters from a Lebanese army position.

The Israeli escalation coincided with intensive flyovers at low altitude by Israeli warplanes that extended as far as Beirut and its southern suburbs, even breaching airspace over the Presidential Palace in Baabda and the prime minister’s office in the heart of the capital.

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