Marjayoun, South Lebanon, February 16, 2024 (Xinhua) Three Hezbollah members and others from the Amal and Madaniyya movements were killed today (Friday) in artillery shelling and Israeli air strikes on border towns in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese security and medical sources.
The sources told Xinhua News Agency that “Israeli drones and warplanes carried out more than 12 air strikes on 8 border towns, while Israeli artillery fired about 75 artillery shells that hit 17 towns in the eastern, central and western sectors of the border region in southern Lebanon.”
The sources added, “Three Hezbollah members were killed in raids that targeted the town of Blida and its environs in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon.”
She continued, “Israeli raids on the town of Qantara in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon led to the killing of three members of the Amal Movement.”
A member of the Amal Movement was killed in an air strike that targeted a building in the city of Nabatieh, according to sources.
The sources stated that “an elderly Lebanese civilian was killed as a result of an Israeli raid that targeted her town of Hula in the eastern sector of the border region in southern Lebanon.”
Today, the Lebanese Resistance Regiments, Amal, the military wing of the Amal Movement, mourned four of its members, saying that they “died while carrying out their national and jihadist duty in defense of Lebanon and the south.”
Hezbollah also mourned three of its members and said, “They rose as martyrs on the road to Jerusalem.”
The party announced that its military wing (the Islamic Resistance) today attacked several Israeli sites with “appropriate weapons,” including “Dovev Barracks, Kiryat Shmona Colony, and Zibdin Barracks,” and the sites of Al-Raheb, Ruwaisat Al-Alam, Al-Samaqa, Al-Matla, Al-Marj, Markaba, Birkat Risha, and Zarit.
South Lebanon witnessed an escalation the day before yesterday (Wednesday), with Israel launching a wave of air strikes that affected several towns, some of which are located 25 kilometers from the border with Israel, resulting in the killing of 11 civilians.
On Wednesday, the Israeli army announced the launch of a “large wave” of raids inside Lebanon after a missile bombardment from the Lebanese side, for which no party claimed responsibility, on the city of Safed, northern Israel, which left one dead and seven wounded.
The Israeli army said today that it continues to raise its readiness on the northern front on the border with Lebanon.
The Israeli army spokesman for the Arab media, Avichai Adraee, published a statement on the ((X)) platform, stating that “the IDF continues to raise its readiness on the northern front.”
Adraee said, “In conjunction with the training of reserve fighters of the 146th and 210th Brigades on the northern front, Golani Brigade fighters this week began the process of raising readiness on the northern front.”
He continued, “As part of an effort to raise the eligibility and readiness of the ground forces to fight in the northern region, under the leadership of the Northern Training Center, the reserve and regular brigades on the northern front carried out training in terrain that simulates the northern border, amid winter weather conditions.”
He explained that the exercises included a joint exercise for armored forces, engineering infantry and artillery, practicing camouflage techniques, fighting in the open area, as well as transporting the wounded amid harsh weather conditions.
The border between Lebanon and Israel has witnessed mutual bombardment between Hezbollah and armed factions on the one hand, and the Israeli army on the other hand, since the outbreak of war between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel in the Gaza Strip on the seventh of last October.
The confrontations on the Lebanese side since last October 8 led to the killing of 303 people, including 205 members of Hezbollah, three members of the Civil Defense, a soldier from the Lebanese Army, a member of the Internal Security Forces, 12 members of the Amal Movement, a member of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, and 23 members of the Hamas and Jihad movements. The Islamist group in Lebanon and 57 civilians, including three journalists, according to party statements and security and medical reports. /end of news/
2024-02-16 21:22:11
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