An AFP correspondent reported Israeli air strikes on a two-story building near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, on the night between Saturday and Sunday.
“Israeli aircraft fired five rockets at a two-story residential building in Al-Osseir, on the outskirts of Baalbek,” the correspondent said. It is the third strike in nearly six months of fighting between Hezbollah and the IDF in this remote area of the border with Israel.
Climbing from October 7th.
Following an unprecedented attack by Palestinian Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, Lebanese Hezbollah engaged in a deadly firefight with the Israeli army on the Israeli-Lebanese border. The Shiite party says it is targeting Israeli military positions in support of the Islamist Hamas movement following Israel’s war against its ally in the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army is responding with air and artillery bombardments that it says are targeting the party’s “infrastructure” and militant movements near the border.
Cross-border violence escalated in early February when Israel carried out a series of deadly strikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday, killing at least 15 people, including 10 civilians, according to an AFP tally. The strikes were carried out in response to an uncalled-for rocket attack from Lebanon on a military base in northern Israel that killed a female soldier.
From October 7 to mid-February, at least 269 people were killed in southern Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah and other allied groups, as well as 40 civilians, according to an AFP tally. According to the army, ten soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
Source: Le Parisien
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