Rising tensions near the Lebanese border. According to the Israeli emergency services of the Magen David Adom (MDA), a civilian was killed on Wednesday, March 27, 2024 in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel, by attacks from Lebanon. According to this source, it is “a 25-year-old worker”, not a resident of the city, who was found in the rubble of a factory affected by a strike.
The Lebanese Hezbollah confirmed this Wednesday that it had launched a barrage of rockets against northern Israel in retaliation for a nighttime bombing, attributed to Israel, that killed seven “rescue workers” in a border town.
A Lebanese Islamist group close to Hezbollah, Jamaa Islamiya, previously reported the death of seven “rescue workers”, killed in an Israeli attack in Habariyeh, near the border with Israel, denouncing a “heinous crime.”
“In retaliation for the massacre committed by the Zionist enemy in the village of Habariyeh (…),” Hezbollah launched “dozens of rockets against Kyriat Shmona,” the powerful Islamist movement said in a statement.
Border tensions
The Israeli army stated for its part that its “combat aircraft targeted a military complex” where “a major terrorist who was preparing attacks against Israeli territory” was located. He said this man had “been eliminated, along with other terrorists who were in his company.”
Since the start of the war on October 7 between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah and other groups allied with the Palestinian Islamist movement have carried out almost daily exchanges of fire with Israeli forces along the southern border of the Gaza Strip. Lebanon.
At least 338 people have been killed in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also at least 57 civilians, in these exchanges of fire in almost six months, according to an AFP tally.
This border violence also displaced thousands of people in southern Lebanon, but also in northern Israel, where, according to the army, ten soldiers and seven civilians were killed.
Source: BFM TV
