According to officials, the dead included a woman and her two children. The Israeli military said it had “attacked a Hezbollah weapons depot during the night”.
At least nine people, including a woman and her two children, were killed in overnight Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon, according to officials. Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday that at least five people were wounded, two of them in critical condition, in an attack in the southern Lebanese region of Nabatijeh. The Israeli military said it had “attacked a Hezbollah weapons depot during the night”.
It is said to be in Nabatijeh region. In addition, the “military infrastructure” of pro-Iranian militias was targeted in the Hanain and Marun el Ras areas along the Israel-Lebanon border.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip following a major attack by Hamas on October 7, mutual attacks between the pro-Iranian Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Israeli army have increased massively. Hezbollah has been shelling northern Israel from Lebanon for ten months. In response, Israel attacked Hezbollah targets in Lebanon.
At least 121 civilians were killed in Lebanon
At least 579 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them militants, but at least 121 civilians. According to the army, 22 soldiers and 26 civilians were killed on the Israeli side. On both sides of the border, hundreds of thousands of civilians were forced to flee their homes.
Conflicts have recently escalated significantly after the killings of Hezbollah military chief Fuad Shukr in Beirut and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran at the end of July. Shukr was killed in an Israeli military strike, Haniya in an explosion in the Iranian capital. Israel has not commented on Haniya’s killing; The Islamist militant group Hamas and Tehran blame Israel for both attacks. Iran and its backer Hezbollah threatened retaliation. (APA/AFP)