Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon killed three Hezbollah members, according to the Lebanese militant group that retaliated by launching a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, injuring several people.
BEIRUT– Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three people Hezbollah members, according to the Lebanese militant group that retaliated by launching a rocket attack on the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, injuring several people.
Israel’s Magen David Adom paramedic service initially reported 11 people injured, five of them seriously, while the remaining six suffered serious injuries.
Hezbollah said in a statement that the attack, in which its militants fired Katyusha rockets at an Israeli army post in the Golan Heights, was in response to Israeli airstrikes on villages in southern Lebanon. The group had previously said three of its members were killed on Saturday, without specifying where. Israel’s military said its air force attacked a Hezbollah weapons depot in the border village of Kfar Kila, adding that militants were inside at the time.
Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria during the 1967 Middle East war and later annexed them in 1981.
Israel and Hezbollah have negotiated near the daily fire since the war in Loop It began after Hamas’ surprise attack on October 7 that killed about 1,200 people and took another 250 hostage. Israel launched an offensive that has so far killed more than 39,000 people, according to local health authorities, and has displaced more of 80% of the territory’s population and has caused a humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip.
In recent weeks, the exchange of fire along the Lebanese-Israeli border intensified with Israeli airstrikes and rocket and drone attacks by Hezbollah striking deeper and farther from the border. edge.
Since early October, Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon have killed more than 450 people, mostly members of Hezbollah, but also about 90 civilians and non-combatants. On the Israeli side, 21 soldiers and 13 civilians have been killed.
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