2024-02-29 19:42:30
Marjayoun, South Lebanon, February 29, 2024 (Xinhua) Three Hezbollah members and an elderly couple were killed and seven civilians were wounded today (Thursday) in Israeli air strikes that targeted several villages in the border region of southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources.
The sources told Xinhua News Agency that three Hezbollah members were killed and two civilians were wounded in a raid carried out by an Israeli march on the town of Blida in the eastern sector of southern Lebanon.
An elderly man and his wife were also killed and five other civilians were wounded as a result of successive raids carried out by Israeli warplanes, during which eight air-to-surface missiles were fired at the towns of Siddiqin, Kafra and Ramiyah in the central sector of the border region in southern Lebanon, according to the sources.
The sources added that the raids led to the destruction of 11 homes and seven cars and damage to 28 homes.
Official sources in the Civil Defense told Xinhua that members of the Civil Defense and the Islamic Health Authority went to the towns of Blida, Ramia, Siddiqin and Kafra, equipped with several bulldozers and cranes, and worked to remove the rubble and recover the injured, and ambulances transported the bodies and injured to Bint Jbeil Governmental Hospital.
Hezbollah mourned three of its members, saying that they “rose as martyrs on the road to Jerusalem,” without any additional details.
Hezbollah announced today that its military wing (the Islamic Resistance) today attacked a deployment of Israeli soldiers in the vicinity of the Jal al-Alam site, the Elon settlement, and the sites of Hadab al-Bustan, Zabdin, Ruwaisat al-Alam, and al-Samaqa.
Israeli warplanes launched six air strikes on five towns in the border region of southern Lebanon, while Israeli artillery fired regarding 45 shells on regarding 9 towns in southern Lebanon, according to military sources.
On the other hand, the Israeli army announced in a statement an attack on a “military building” belonging to Hezbollah in Blida and the removal of a “threat” in Mays al-Jabal.
The Israeli army spokesman for the Arab media, Avichai Adraee, said in a statement on the (X) platform that fighter jets raided a “military building” belonging to Hezbollah in the Blida area, “in which a terrorist element was detected.”
In addition, the Israeli army launched an attack to remove the “threat” in the Mays al-Jabal area, according to the military spokesman, who indicated that firing operations were observed towards the Gorin area, without causing any casualties, while the army forces attacked the source of the fire.
The border between Lebanon and Israel has witnessed exchanges of gunfire 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 325 people, including 219 members of Hezbollah, 12 from the Amal Movement, 25 from Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Lebanon, and 61 civilians, including three journalists, 5 from the Civil Defense and a soldier from the Lebanese Army. A member of the Internal Security Forces and another of the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, according to party statements and security and medical reports. /End of the news/
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