An Israeli bombing killed two people in southern Lebanon on Wednesday evening, after Hamas earlier fired a barrage of rockets towards northern Israel from Lebanon amid escalating cross-border clashes in recent days.
There has been an almost daily exchange of bombing between the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli army since the outbreak of war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on October 7, and Palestinian factions in Lebanon also claim responsibility for attacks from time to time.
The official Lebanese News Agency reported, “The enemy warplanes raided the towns of Siddiqin and Kafra in three batches, resulting in the death of two martyrs from the town of Kafra, in addition to 14 injuries to date, including wounds and cases of suffocation.”
On Wednesday morning, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement, announced that it had targeted two military sites in northern Israel with dozens of missiles from southern Lebanon.
The Brigades reported in a statement published on the Telegram application that they had targeted two military sites “with two missile salvos consisting of forty Grad missiles.”
For its part, the Israeli army said in a statement that “about 10 projectiles were detected that crossed from Lebanon into northern Israel,” adding that sirens sounded in the Kiryat Shmona region in the north of the country.
The army added that the air defenses “successfully responded to a number of projectile operations,” adding that it “hit the sources of fire in Lebanon.”
The Israeli police reported damage to property in the Kiryat Shmona area, but no injuries were reported.
The escalation over more than four months prompted tens of thousands of residents on both sides of the border to evacuate their homes, and caused the death of at least 286 people, including 197 Hezbollah fighters, 44 civilians, and at least 24 Palestinian fighters, ten of whom were from Hamas.
In Israel, the army counted the deaths of ten soldiers and six civilians.
The escalation raised local and international fears that the exchange of bombing across the border would expand into a widespread confrontation between Hezbollah and Israel, which fought a devastating war in the summer of 2006.
Hezbollah reiterates that only Israel stopping its war in the Gaza Strip will stop the shooting from southern Lebanon.
However, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant stressed on Sunday that his country’s strikes against Hezbollah would not stop even if an agreement was reached on a truce and the release of hostages held by Hamas in Gaza.
2024-02-29 00:00:46
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