Marjayoun, East and South Lebanon, March 12, 2024 (Xinhua) Two members of the Lebanese Hezbollah were killed and 12 civilians were wounded today (Tuesday) in the final toll of a series of Israeli air strikes that targeted several areas in the city of Baalbek and its environs in eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources.
Military sources told Xinhua News Agency that today, Israeli warplanes carried out 4 air strikes targeting a residential building in the Dhahur al-Ayroun locality on the Baalbek-Riyaq International Road, a house on the outskirts of the town of Nabi Sheet, and another house at the opposite end of Badat Sarein, near the city of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon. .
She added that the Israeli raids led to the killing of two Hezbollah members and the wounding of 12 civilians, while three buildings were destroyed and about 20 homes were damaged.
Hezbollah mourned two of its members and said in two separate statements, “They died as martyrs on the road to Jerusalem,” without any additional details.
The sources continued, “Members of the Civil Defense, the Lebanese Red Cross, and the Islamic Health Authority rushed to the targeted locations, equipped with several bulldozers and cranes, and worked to remove the rubble and transport the injured to hospitals.”
Official medical sources in eastern and southern Lebanon confirmed to ((Xinhua)) “the arrival of two bodies and 12 wounded to the Baalbek Governmental Hospital and Dar Al Amal in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon.”
Military sources confirmed to Xinhua that they “observed this afternoon the launching of about 40 surface-to-surface missiles from southern Lebanon towards northern Israel, and some of them were responded to by missiles fired by the Israeli Iron Dome.”
Hezbollah announced that its military wing (the Islamic Resistance) attacked several Israeli sites with appropriate weapons, including the Baranit Barracks, Jabal Adir, Zabdin, Ruwaisat Al-Alam, Al-Jardah, Jal Al-Alam, Hadab Yarin, and Birkat Risha.
The border between Lebanon and Israel has witnessed exchanges of fire and bombardment between Hezbollah and armed factions on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other since the outbreak of war between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel in the Gaza Strip on October 7th.
The confrontations on the Lebanese side since the eighth of last October until today have led to the killing of 360 people, including 238 members of Hezbollah, 12 from the Amal Movement, 28 from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Islamic Group in Lebanon, and 71 civilians, including three journalists, 8 from the Civil Defense and a soldier from… The Lebanese Army, a member of the Internal Security Forces, and another from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, according to party statements and security and medical reports.
2024-03-12 19:59:30
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