18/8/2024–|Last update: 8/18/202402:56 PM (Makkah Time)
3 UNIFIL soldiers injuredUNIFIL“They were slightly injured in an explosion near their vehicles in the vicinity of the town of Yarin in southern Lebanon, while the town of Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon was exposed to… Lebanon An Israeli raid, today, Sunday, launched Hezbollah An attack on the occupation army's Al-Marj site, announcing “a direct hit.”
A UNIFIL spokesman said in a statement that all peacekeepers who were on patrol returned safely to their base, noting that an investigation has been launched to determine the circumstances of the incident.
“We strongly remind all parties and actors of their responsibility to avoid harming peacekeepers and civilians,” he added.
Al Jazeera's correspondent quoted a Lebanese security source as saying that UNIFIL personnel were injured in an Israeli raid that coincided with their passage in the vicinity of the town of Dahra in southern Lebanon.
In another development, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Beirut reported that the town of Aita al-Shaab, south of Beirut, was subjected to… Lebanon An Israeli airstrike took place today, Sunday, and one person was killed and another was injured in an Israeli drone airstrike on the outskirts of the town of Shebaa, while Hezbollah launched an attack on the Marj site of the occupation army, announcing a “direct hit.”
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that “a hostile march targeted a motorcycle in the Jan'am area, outside the town of Shebaa, Hasbaya District, and led to the martyrdom of one person.”
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced last night that 3 people were injured in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Markaba in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese field sources also reported that the Israeli warplanes launched an airstrike targeting the town of Al-Dhahira, and launched another airstrike with missiles targeting the outskirts of the town of Al-Tayri, in addition to an airstrike on Aitaroun, and another on Aita Al-Shaab.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced yesterday, Saturday, the killing of 10 people in an Israeli raid that targeted Wadi al-Kafour in the Nabatieh Governorate in the south of the country.
Resistance missiles
For its part, Hezbollah announced that it had bombed the Israeli Al-Marj site opposite the Lebanese border with missiles, confirming that casualties had been achieved.
Yesterday, the party bombed the settlement of Illit Hashahar for the first time with Katyusha rockets, and targeted the sites of Jal al-Alam, Harsh Shtula, Hadab Yaron, Samaka, and Ruwaysat al-Alam, and also attacked soldiers at the Marj site with drones.
The Israeli Army Radio reported today that 3 rockets were launched from Lebanon and fell in open areas in Moshav Margaliot, in the Galilee Finger in northern occupied Palestine, shortly after sirens went off in Moshav Margaliot to warn of falling rockets.
This comes as Israel has been anticipating retaliatory responses from Iran and Hezbollah for days.Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) on the assassination of the head of Hamas's political bureau Ismail Haniyeh In the Iranian capital, Tehran, on July 31, and the party’s prominent leader, Fouad Shukr, in Beirut the day before.
The Israeli occupation army continues to launch raids on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, in conjunction with its ongoing aggression on… Gaza Strip For more than 10 months, the raids have killed and wounded Lebanese civilians, and forced hundreds of families to flee their homes.
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 the Gaza Strip since October 7, which has left more than 132,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing, in one of the worst humanitarian disasters in the world.