This picture taken from a position in northern Israel near the border with Lebanon shows an Israeli Air Force fighter flying over the border area on 11 August 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Jalaa Marey / AFP)
- Hezbollah reported that an Israeli air strike on Sunday
killed two of its fighters in the village of Taybeh. - The cross-border violence, which has been ongoing since
early October, has resulted in casualties on both sides, including fighters and
civilians. - In late July, a strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs
killed a top Hezbollah commander, Fuad Shukr.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement said an Israeli air strike on
Sunday killed two fighters from the Iran-backed group, with the health ministry
reporting another death from an attack days ago.
Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israel in support
of its ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group’s 7 October attack on
Israel triggered war in Gaza.
A strike on Beirut’s southern suburbs late last month killed
Hezbollah’s top military commander, Fuad Shukr, just hours before the
assassination, blamed on Israel, of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in
Tehran.
The Lebanese health ministry said Sunday that an
“Israeli strike that targeted the village of Taybeh today left two
dead.”
Hezbollah confirmed they were group fighters, killed in
Taybeh near the border with Israel.
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The Israeli military said it had “struck throughout the
day several Hezbollah military structures in the area of Adaisseh”, which
is next to Taybeh.
According to the health ministry, at least one Lebanese and
11 Syrians were wounded, two seriously, in an Israeli strike on Maaroub, near
Derdghaiya.
Separately, the health ministry specified that a Lebanese
man who had succumbed to injuries sustained in an Israeli strike “several
days ago” on the southern village of Beit Lif was a Hezbollah fighter, not
a civilian as earlier reported.
Hezbollah said overnight into Monday it launched salvos of
rockets “in response” to the Israeli fire, targeting troops stationed
in northern Israel.
“Approximately 30 projectiles were identified crossing
from Lebanon toward the area of Kabri,” the Israeli military said Monday,
reporting no casualties and announcing retaliatory strikes.
The military on Sunday said its forces had “struck a
Hezbollah terrorist cell in the area of Taybeh” as well as “a
military structure in the area of Derdghaiya”.
“Following the strike, secondary explosions were
identified, indicating the presence of weapons inside the structure” in
Derdghaiya, it added.
Hezbollah claimed several attacks against military positions
in northern Israel on Sunday, including at least two using drones.
The cross-border violence since early October has killed at
least 565 people in Lebanon, most of them fighters but also including at least
116 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights,
22 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to military figures.
Thousands have been displaced from both sides of the border
due to the fighting.
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