The Lebanese Hezbollah group announced on Friday evening that two of its members were killed in an exchange of shelling with the Israeli army on the southern border after the end of the humanitarian truce in the Gaza Strip.
In a statement, Hezbollah mourned Shehada Mishik, from the town of Wadi Umm Ali, in the Bekaa Governorate (east).
The party explained that Mishik “rose as a martyr on the road to Jerusalem,” which is the expression the group has used to mourn its members since the outbreak of border confrontations with Israel on October 8.
The party also mourned Muhammad Hassan Mazraani, from the town of Houla in southern Lebanon, bringing the group’s death toll to 88 since last October 8.
The official Lebanese Information Agency also reported, “A Lebanese woman was killed as a result of an Israeli bombing that targeted a house in the border town of Hula in the Marjayoun district” in southern Lebanon, bringing the death toll of civilian casualties in the Israeli bombing to 23, including 3 journalists.
Earlier Friday, the Israeli army announced the bombing of Hezbollah sites on Lebanese territory.
The army said in a statement: “The Israeli army bombed the infrastructure of the Hezbollah organization with aircraft, combat helicopters, and artillery fire, in response to the launching of missiles towards Israeli territory today (Friday).”
Before that, Hezbollah announced that its members had targeted gatherings of Israeli soldiers, in several military sites, opposite the southern Lebanese border, and had investigated some of them with “direct hits.”
The southern Lebanese border areas witnessed a state of cautious anticipation and calm, amid intense flights by Israeli reconnaissance aircraft since the announcement of the truce between Hamas and Israel, on November 24.
Immediately after the end of the truce, at seven in the morning on Friday, Palestine time, Israel resumed its military operations against the Gaza Strip, targeting various areas in the north, center and south of the Gaza Strip, resulting in dozens of deaths and injuries, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.
The truce came after a devastating war waged by Israel in the Gaza Strip, since last October 7, which left massive destruction to infrastructure and tens of thousands of civilian casualties, most of them children and women, in addition to an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, according to official Palestinian and UN sources.
TRT Arabic – Agencies
2023-12-02 07:46:13
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