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Lebanon's Hezbollah says it fired rockets into northern Israel

2024-08-05

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According to a report by Hezbollah's Lighthouse TV on the 4th, Hezbollah fired dozens of Katyusha rockets at northern Israel in the early hours of the morning. The report said this was a response to Israel's attack on southern Lebanon on the 3rd.

Lebanese military sources told Xinhua that on the afternoon of the 3rd, an Israeli drone attacked a small shop in the southern Lebanese village of Deir Silyan with two missiles, killing one boy and injuring six civilians, including three children; an Israeli drone attacked the southwestern Lebanese village of Tel Halfa, injuring one civilian.

The source also said that Israeli warplanes and drones carried out six air strikes on five towns and villages in southern Lebanon on the afternoon of the 3rd, and Israeli artillery fired 30 artillery shells at eight towns and villages in the southern border area of ​​Lebanon.

On July 30, Israel launched an airstrike on a Hezbollah target in the southern suburbs of Beirut, killing Fuad Shukur, a senior military commander of Hezbollah, and five civilians, and injuring 74 others. On August 1, Hezbollah leader Nasrallah vowed revenge at Shukur's funeral.

Since the outbreak of a new round of Israeli-Palestinian conflict on October 7 last year, Hezbollah in Lebanon has launched attacks on northern Israel and the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights from time to time, and the Israeli army has retaliated with air strikes and artillery shelling of targets in southern Lebanon. The conflict between the two sides on the Lebanese-Israeli border has continued to this day, and a large number of residents in the southern Lebanese and northern Israeli border areas have been evacuated.

In view of the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on the 3rd that it would temporarily close its embassy in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, and withdraw its diplomatic personnel. Previously, the governments of the United States, Britain, Germany, Switzerland, Australia and other countries had issued travel warnings, urging their citizens to leave or avoid traveling to Lebanon. According to multiple media reports, many international airlines, including Delta Airlines and United Airlines, Air France, Lufthansa, and Alitalia, have suspended flights to Tel Aviv or Beirut.

According to Xinhua News Agency