23/8/2024–|Last update: 8/23/202404:30 PM (Makkah Time)
Seven people, including a child, were killed on Friday in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon. Hezbollah At least 3 of them, amid the ongoing escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border for more than 10 months.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health stated in a statement that “the Israeli enemy’s raid on the town of Tyre Harfa led to the martyrdom of 3 people.”
Al Jazeera correspondent said that Hezbollah mourned 3 fighters who were killed in an Israeli raid on the town of Tyre Harfa. South Lebanon.
For its part, the Israeli army announced in a statement that its soldiers had spotted “a terrorist cell that was planning to launch rockets from the Tyre Harfa area in southern Lebanon towards Israel.” It said that an Israeli Air Force plane “eliminated” the group.
In the town of Aita al-Shaab, the Lebanese Ministry of Health reported – in a second statement – the killing of “two people, one of whom was a 7-year-old child” in a preliminary toll as a result of a drone strike.
According to the official National News Agency, a “hostile drone” targeted a house in the town with two guided missiles.
Later, the Ministry of Health reported the killing of two people, one in an Israeli raid on the town of Mays al-Jabal, and the second in a raid on a motorcycle in the town of Aitaroun. The two raids resulted in three injuries.
A short while ago, Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that an Israeli drone targeted a car in the vicinity of the town of Ma’arka in southern Lebanon.
The National News Agency reported Israeli raids on several towns in southern Lebanon.
She explained that the occupation army bombed at dawn the surroundings of the town of Naqoura and Jabal al-Labouneh in the western sector, where most of the UNIFIL centers in the south of the Litani River sounded the sirens.
Throughout the night and until Friday morning, the occupation forces continued to fire flares over border villages adjacent to the Blue Line, while warplanes and reconnaissance aircraft continued to fly over the southern villages, according to the agency.
The occupation army’s artillery also bombed targets in the Shebaa area in southern Lebanon.
Israeli losses
In contrast, Hezbollah claimed responsibility on Friday morning for targeting the espionage equipment at the Meron base, “in response to the enemy’s attacks on the steadfast southern villages and safe homes.”
Al Jazeera’s correspondent said that air raid sirens sounded in Al-Malikiyah in the Upper Galilee.
In the same context, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority reported that a number of settlements in the Western Galilee received instructions to reduce traffic and avoid gatherings.
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Earlier on Friday, an Israeli news website revealed the material and human losses that Israel suffered during the months-long confrontation with the Lebanese Hezbollah, while the exchange of shelling continued between the occupation army and the party’s fighters across the border.
The Israeli website “Walla” reported that 44 people were killed since the beginning of the confrontations with the Lebanese Hezbollah, including 24 civilians, 19 officers and soldiers, and one foreign worker.
The news website added that 271 Israelis, including 141 soldiers and officers, have been injured since the beginning of the confrontation with Hezbollah on October 8.
The website revealed that 1,091 rockets were launched from Lebanon towards Israel last month, an increase of three times compared to the beginning of this year.
The website reported that 180,000 dunams of land in northern Israel have been burned since the beginning of the confrontation with Hezbollah, noting that about 4,400 compensation claims for damages caused in towns adjacent to the border with Lebanon have been filed so far.
Regarding the losses of the tourism sector in northern Israel, the website revealed that they exceed 1 billion and 150 thousand shekels (about 270 million dollars), while direct losses reach 1 billion and 600 thousand shekels.
The Israeli-Lebanese border has been witnessing a noticeable escalation for weeks, as Israel awaits retaliatory responses from Hezbollah for its assassination of the prominent military commander. Fouad ShukrAnother response from Iran in response to the assassination of the head of the political bureau of the Islamic Resistance Movement (agitation) Ismail Haniyeh In Tehran.
Since October 8, 2023, Lebanese and Palestinian factions in Lebanon, most notably Hezbollah, have been exchanging daily shelling with the Israeli army across the Blue Line, resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, most of them on the Lebanese side.
The factions are linking the cessation of the bombing to Israel ending its US-backed war on Gaza Strip Since October 7, more than 133,000 Palestinians have been killed and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 have gone missing, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.
