Tel Aviv [Israel], March 29: The Lebanese Hezbollah force announced that it had launched dozens of rockets at the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona on March 27.
Rueters today, March 28, quoted security sources in Lebanon as saying that at least 8 people, including some members of Hezbollah , were killed on March 27 due to Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon.
Lebanese official media and security sources said five people were killed in the border village of Tair Harfa and at least three others died in a restaurant in the border town of Naqura.
Meanwhile, the Israeli emergency agency confirmed that a rocket attack on March 27 killed a factory worker in Kiryat Shmona after sirens were sounded in the area.
Hezbollah's attack targeted Kiryat Shmona in response to Israel's deadly attack on the village of Hebbariyeh in southern Lebanon on March 26, according to Reuters. On March 27, Hezbollah condemned the attack on Hebbariyeh.
Two Lebanese security sources told Reuters that at least seven people were killed in the Israeli attack on Hebbariyeh. The source said that the Israeli attack appeared to target the Hezbollah emergency and relief center in the village.
On March 26, Hezbollah wrote on the Telegram messaging application that Israeli airstrikes near two towns in northeastern Lebanon killed three Hezbollah members. Israel has confirmed those attacks.
According to AFP data, cross-border fighting between Israel and Lebanon since October 2023 has killed at least 338 people in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah members but also at least 64 civilians. According to the Israeli army, at least 10 soldiers and 8 civilians were killed in Israel.
The Hamas-Israel conflict in the Gaza Strip has spread beyond the territory's borders to several other areas in the Middle East, and the Israeli military says pilots have increasingly carried out long-range attacks over northern border with Lebanon in a sign of further escalation.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) paused training operations at the start of its air campaign against Gaza in response to a Hamas attack on southern Israel on October 7, 2023, but has gradually returned to training over the weeks. recently, according to Reuters.
"The training program will focus on enhancing the IAF's combat readiness in the northern theater and other arenas during extended combat periods," the Israeli military emphasized in a statement, according to the statement. the training will include "large-scale, long-range attacks, deep into enemy territory," it added.
Source: Thanh Nien Newspaper