Hezbollah claims to have fired dozens of missiles at northern Israel

He Lebanese Hezbollah He said on Thursday he fired dozens of missiles into northern Israel a day later Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon that killed 15 peopleincluding a commander of this pro-Iranian movement.

“In the first response to the massacres [en las localidades libanesas] of Nabatieh and Sawaneh, Islamic Resistance fighters fired dozens of Katiusha-type rockets at [la ciudad israelí de] Kiryat Shmonaon the border with Lebanon, Hezbollah said in a statement.

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The powerful, Iranian-backed movement also claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on Israeli military positions near the border.

In three separate statements, it also reported the death of three of its fighters in Israeli bombings, bringing the group’s number of members to eight. Hezbollah dead since Wednesday.

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The Israeli army confirmed on Thursday that it killed a commander of the movement, identified as Ali al Debs, along with his deputy Ibrahim Issa and another fighter in a bomb attack on Wednesday against a building in Nabatieh, in southern Lebanon.

The attack also killed seven civilians, who were part of the same family, according to a Lebanese security source. The family was on the first floor of the building while members of the Hezbollah They were on the ground floor, the source said.

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Rescue teams removed the bodies of seven civilians, including five women and a child, from the rubble, according to the national information agency (ANI).

The UN denounced a “dangerous climb” of violence, which broke out the day after the start of the war in Gaza between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas.

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The conflict, which began on October 7, fueled tensions on the border between Israel and Lebanon, where there are daily exchanges of gunfire.

Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati condemned the “new massacres” of civilians by “Israeli enemy”.

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A spokesperson for the UN interim force in Lebanon, Andrea Tenenti, urged in a statement “all affected parties must immediately cease hostilities”.

On Wednesday, three civilians were killed in another Israeli bomb attack in Sawaneh. In total, ten civilians were killed in Israeli attacks that day. This is the highest balance since October 8th.

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At least 262 people, including 40 civilians, have been killed in southern Lebanon since that date, according to an AFP report. Ten soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side, according to the army.

Source: Elcomercio

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