The official Lebanese News Agency announced on Thursday that a woman was killed and her husband, both in their eighties, was injured in an Israeli bombing of their house in the town of Maroun al-Ras in southern Lebanon.
This incident brings the number of civilians killed since the beginning of the confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel on October 8 to 26, including 3 journalists and 3 children.
The agency stated that the ambulance teams “worked to transfer the body and the wounded person to Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil for first aid.”
TRT Arab correspondent: A woman was killed and her husband was injured in an Israeli bombing of their house in the town of Maroun al-Ras, southern Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/Bsy6MRs7kS
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The agency noted that “Israeli artillery stationed inside the occupied Palestinian territories targeted residential neighborhoods in the town of Maroun al-Ras,” and “on Thursday morning, they fired incendiary bombs at the forests of Jabal al-Labouneh, Al-Allam, and Alma Al-Shaab.”
It reported that “the outskirts of the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Ramiya in the central sector were subjected to Israeli artillery shelling, while enemy warplanes raided the town of Kafr Kila in southern Lebanon with three missiles in the morning.”
Israeli targeting
The Israeli army said in a statement on Thursday: “During the hours last night and this morning, army warplanes and drones attacked Hezbollah infrastructure and a missile platform that was used to launch rocket shells towards Israel yesterday evening.”
The statement added: “The forces also bombed areas in Lebanon with artillery,” without specifying locations.
He added: “As a follow-up to activating warnings in the north yesterday evening, several shells were monitored from Lebanon towards Israel, and the Israeli army responded with artillery shelling towards the sources of the fire,” without further details.
Hezbollah responds
On the other hand, Lebanese Hezbollah said Thursday that it had targeted military sites and settlements in northern Israel with Katyusha rockets, incendiary missiles, and assault drones.
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The party reiterated its assertion that “the resistance will never tolerate harming civilians, will not allow our villages and towns to be invaded, and will respond to any attack by striking the settlements in northern occupied Palestine.”
Local sources reported that about 20 missiles were fired at Israeli positions in the occupied Lebanese hills of Kafr Shuba, and another at the occupied Shebaa Farms from southern Lebanon.
Israeli media reported that air defenses intercepted a drone launched from Lebanese territory towards the Upper Galilee.
Hezbollah said in a statement that its fighters targeted the settlements of “Doviv and Avivim (the occupied Lebanese village of Salha) with appropriate weapons, and caused confirmed casualties there.”
Various statements from the party stated on Thursday that its members “targeted gathering centers for Israeli occupation soldiers in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms with missile and artillery weapons,” and it also launched an air attack with three attack drones “at once on the enemy’s newly created concentrations behind its positions in the occupied Lebanese Shebaa Farms.” .
In another statement, the party announced that its members “targeted the Israeli military point of al-Jardah with appropriate weapons,” and bombed the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona with “a volley of Katyusha rockets in response to Israel’s targeting of civilians.”
He noted in another statement that his members “fired incendiary missiles at the Baranit forests,” stressing that his military operations against the Israeli army resulted in direct casualties.
The exchange of bombing and gunfire between the Lebanese and Israeli sides since last October 8 also resulted in the killing of 118 Hezbollah members, and about 65,000 Lebanese civilians were forced to flee due to the ongoing confrontations in the region.
Hezbollah and Palestinian factions in Lebanon have exchanged intermittent daily bombardment with the Israeli army since October 8, “in solidarity with the Gaza Strip,” which has been witnessing a devastating war since the seventh of the same month, which, as of Wednesday, has left 20,000 martyrs and 52,600 wounded, most of them children and women. , massive destruction to infrastructure and an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to the Gaza Strip authorities and the United Nations.
TRT Arabic – Agencies
2023-12-21 21:22:30
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