A Sky News Arabia correspondent reported that about 60 missiles were fired from Lebanon towards Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee, as shown in videos that spread on Tuesday evening.
Hezbollah announced, “Bombarding the town of Kafr Blum with dozens of Katyusha rockets, and targeting a building in Kiryat Shmona and directly hitting it, in response to targeting a house and killing 3 civilians in Hula.”
For its part, Israeli Army Radio said: “Bombing Kiryat Shmona, about 30 launches were detected, about 10 of which were intercepted.”
She added: “In Kfar Blum, damage was reported after rockets fell. Security forces are surveying other areas where they were reported to have fallen.”
This escalation comes within a series of tensions on the Lebanese front between Hezbollah and Israel, which increased in intensity after the war in Gaza.
For its part, the Lebanese National News Agency indicated that three civilians, a couple and their son, were killed in an Israeli strike that hit a house in the town of Houla on the border with Israel in southern Lebanon, earlier Tuesday.
The agency reported, “Three civilians from one family, the husband, wife, and son from the Hussein family, were martyred in the enemy raid, which targeted a three-story house in Houla,” adding, “Search operations and the removal of rubble are still continuing until now.”
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant indicated on Tuesday that the ongoing tension with the Hezbollah group on the border with Lebanon has brought matters closer to military escalation.
He added in a statement following his meeting with the US special envoy to Lebanon, Amos Hockstein: “We are committed to the diplomatic process, but Hezbollah’s aggression brings us closer to a critical point in making a decision regarding military activities towards Lebanon.”
The Gaza war broke out when Hamas launched an attack on October 7 on Israel, which it said killed 1,200 people and took 253 hostages.
2024-03-05 18:42:44
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