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15-02-2024
BEIRUT/ JERUSALEM: Israel has launched an “extensive wave of attacks” on Lebanon after a woman was killed and others injured in a rocket attack on northern Israel.
Lebanese media reported that villages had been hit and buildings were on fire.
Hezbollah, which is thought to have carried out the attack on Israel, has not claimed responsibility.
The two sides have traded regular fire across Israel’s northern border since the 7 October attacks by Hamas.
“Fighter jets began an extensive wave of attacks in Lebanese territory,” the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesman, Daniel Hagari, wrote on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday.
Hagari said the IDF would give more detail on its latest air strikes in the coming hours.
The attack from Lebanon on northern Israel hit the Safed area, and was targeted at the Israeli military’s northern command centre, the IDF said.
A video shows one of the rockets landing near the gate of a hospital.
Hezbollah, a Shia Muslim organization – is one of the most heavily-armed, non-state military forces in the world.
It was established in the early 1980s by the region’s most dominant Shia power, Iran, to oppose Israel.
On 14th January, An elderly Israeli woman and her son have been killed in a Hezbollah missile attack from Lebanon, Israel says.
The anti-tank missile hit the town of Kfar Yuval on Israel’s northern border, killing Barak Ayalon, 45, and his mother Miri Ayalon, 76.
Earlier the Israeli military said it killed four gunmen trying to cross from Lebanon into Israel.
It comes as Hamas health officials in Gaza said 125 more people had been killed in continuing Israeli strikes.
That brings the number of deaths in Gaza since Israel began retaliatory attacks on the Strip to nearly 24,000, with thousands more believed dead under rubble. Local officials say children and women account for about two-thirds of the dead. About 60,000 people have been injured.
Meanwhile US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Israel would have to transition to lower-intensity operations in Gaza.
He said that in a military campaign, tactics evolve as objectives are reached, and that the US had offered assistance in sharing knowhow.
Israel began striking Gaza after Hamas attacked southern Israel on 7 October, killing about 1,200 mainly civilians and taking 240 more hostage. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
