Four Lebanese civilians were killed in southern Lebanon, on Sunday, in a raid carried out by an Israeli march, while Hezbollah threatened Israel to “pay the price for its crimes.”
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that a Lebanese woman and her three grandchildren were killed after an Israeli drone targeted a car they were traveling in on the Ainatha-Aitaroun road in southern Lebanon.
The agency explained that two cars were driving, one behind the other, the first driven by journalist Samir Abdel Hussein Ayoub, and the second behind him, driven by his niece, accompanied by her mother and three children, noting that the two cars were subjected to a raid carried out by an Israeli drone that directly hit the second car, causing it to overturn. And it caught fire.
It was reported that the bombing killed the journalist’s sister and her three grandchildren, aged 10, 12 and 14, and their mother and the journalist himself were also injured.
The Israeli army said that Israeli forces clashed with a vehicle in Lebanon that it determined was “suspected of transporting terrorists,” adding: “The allegation of the presence of civilians in the vehicle is subject to examination and the incident is under review.”
Hezbollah said that it fired several Grad missiles at the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, on Sunday, in response to the Israeli strike. He added, in a statement, that his attack came “in response to the heinous, brutal crime” committed by Israel.
A member of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc, Hassan Fadlallah, told Reuters: “This crime is a dangerous development in the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, and the enemy will pay the price for its crimes against civilians.” Fadlallah added: “The occupation army committed a heinous massacre against a civilian car that led to the death of three girls, ages 8 to 14, and their grandmother, and the wounding of their mother, while they were passing on a public road between the towns of Aitaroun and Ainatha.” He added: “This crime is a dangerous development in the Israeli aggression against Lebanon, and it has repercussions, and the enemy will pay the price for its crimes against civilians.”
Hezbollah Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel against targeting civilians, hinting at a reciprocal response.
As sirens sounded in the evening in the settlements of Metulla, Kafr Giladi, and Kiryat Shmona, Hezbollah attacked the settlements with Grad missiles, leading to the death of an Israeli, according to an Israeli army spokesman.
The party said in a statement: “In response to the brutal, heinous crime committed by the Zionist enemy this afternoon (Sunday), in which it targeted a civilian car on the Al-Muaisara Road between Ainata and Aitaroun, and led to the martyrdom of a woman and three of her grandchildren, the Mujahideen of the Islamic Resistance at At 7:20 pm, Sunday, 11/5/2023, the settlement of Kiryat Shmona was bombed with a number of Grad (Katyusha) missiles. The Islamic Resistance confirms that it will never tolerate harm and assault on civilians, and its response will be firm and strong.
An Israeli army spokesman said that the Lebanese Hezbollah group attacked several Israeli military sites and towns on Sunday, and that one of the attacks resulted in the death of an Israeli citizen.
The scene of daily clashes on the Lebanese border between Hezbollah and Israel continued, with the party targeting a number of Israeli sites with guided missiles.
There was conflicting information about the downing of a drone in southern Lebanon. After the National News Agency said that Hezbollah air defenses shot down an Israeli drone in the morning, the Israeli army announced in the afternoon that it had intercepted a drone over Lebanese territory that was heading towards Israel.
Al-Wataniya said that Hezbollah was able to shoot down an Israeli drone with a surface-to-air missile, and large parts of it fell over neighborhoods in the towns of Zibdin and Harouf, when it was flying with another drone since the morning hours over the airspace of Nabatieh, Harouf, Zibdine, Jabshit, and Al-Duwair. ,Eastern Toll.
It was noted, according to Al-Wataniya, that the second march flew a few minutes after the first was shot down before it receded from the sky of the region, noting that hundreds of citizens climbed onto the roofs of houses in the towns at the moment the missile exploded and the march fell. Pictures spread on social media showed that the people of the area found the remains of the march.
While Hezbollah did not announce the downing of the drone, the Israeli army said, on Sunday afternoon, that its air defenses intercepted a drone that was flying towards Israel from Lebanon, and that it was intercepted while it was over Lebanese territory, noting that “the drone was tracked.” Using detection and control systems, it was successfully intercepted by the Israeli army’s air defense in the airspace of Lebanon,” noting that it also responded with artillery to sources of fire fired from Lebanon.
While announcing that it had carried out a number of operations, Hezbollah mourned 3 of its fighters.
The funeral of a Hezbollah member in the southern suburb of Beirut, Saturday (AFP)
On the ground, the “Islamic Resistance,” the party’s military wing, announced in separate statements that its fighters had targeted the Al-Dhahra site with missiles and artillery shells, and that they had caused confirmed casualties there, in addition to “an Israeli military vehicle in the Bayad-Blida site with guided missiles, and its crew was killed and wounded.” ». It also targeted “the Misgav General site with guided missiles,” announcing that it had destroyed part of its technical equipment. It also attacked the Avivim barracks and the Jal al-Deir site with guided missiles.
The Israeli army intensified its bombing of southern Lebanon, and an Israeli drone targeted two health ambulances belonging to the Islamic Message Scouts Association (Amal Movement), in the outskirts of Tayr Harfa, wounding them and causing 4 deaths.
The Civil Defense Operations Room in Al-Resala Scouts issued a statement, in which it said, “While two Civil Defense vehicles in the Scouts were carrying out their humanitarian duty to evacuate a number of injured people from one of the homes targeted by the Israeli occupation forces on the outskirts of Tayr Harfa, Tyre district, a drone belonging to the occupation forces… The Israeli forces directly targeted the two cars, which resulted in 4 paramedics being moderately injured, who were subsequently transferred to a Tire hospital for treatment.
“This crime was put on the radar of the international community, which must move immediately to deter Israel and stop its crimes and violation of international laws, customs and conventions that prohibit anyone from obstructing the work of paramedics under any circumstances.”
For his part, the Israeli army spokesman, Avichay Adraee, wrote on the “X” platform, saying: “Earlier today, the IDF raided a cell of terrorists that attempted to launch missiles from Lebanese territory towards Israeli territory in the Ras Naqoura area, and during the raid, two cars were spotted arriving at The area from which the cell operated,” indicating that the raid was targeting the saboteurs’ cell, and did not target the two cars.
During his inspection of the wounded, the Amal Movement MP, Ali Khreis, confirmed that “Amal is present on the ground, and we are ready, as Parliament Speaker Berri said, if the enemy tries to attack Lebanon, and we will be on the lookout for him, and we are fully prepared to confront any advance.” On the south and the border.
The Amal Movement’s Civil Defense is helping to extinguish the fires raging in southern Lebanon as a result of the Israeli bombing, while its ambulance is providing support in transporting civilian victims who fall in the bombing in southern Lebanon, noting that the International Red Cross is undertaking the task of Transporting Hezbollah’s wounded and dead who fall on the border.
The bombing had begun early in the morning, targeting a number of areas in southern Lebanon. The National Agency reported that it targeted the vicinity of Alma al-Shaab, Naqoura and Labouneh, amid intense reconnaissance aircraft flying over the airspace of Tyre, and Israeli artillery bombed the outskirts of the towns of Muhaibib and Blida.
Likewise, the vicinity of a number of towns (Al-Labouneh, Naqoura, Alma Al-Shaab and Aita Al-Shaab), and the outskirts of Marwahin, Al-Jebin and Balat, were subjected to Israeli artillery shelling at night, accompanied by the firing of incendiary bombs at the forests adjacent to the Blue Line, where fires destroyed a third of the old-growth trees, especially in the vicinity of Alma. The people.
Al-Wataniya reported that the Israeli aircraft targeted a civilian car between Ainata and Aitaroun, inside which were 3 children, a man and a woman from the Ayoub family. Media information indicated that 3 victims were killed.
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