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[Text/Lin Chenli of Observer Network] According to the Lebanese National News Agency, Reuters, Al Jazeera and other media reports, in the early morning of the 17th local time, Israel launched an airstrike on an industrial facility in the Nabatiyya area in southern Lebanon, killing 10 people, including 1 woman and 2 children, and injuring 5 others. All the victims were Syrian citizens.

According to reports, the targets of the Israeli airstrikes were a quarry and an industrial steel warehouse in the Nabatiyya area, killing 10 Syrian nationals, including the factory's guard, his wife and two children, and six Syrian workers working in the factory. In addition, five people were injured, and the final number of casualties in the attack will be announced after DNA tests are conducted to identify the victims.

The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot used by Lebanese Hezbollah militants.

Hussein Tahmaz, the owner of the attacked factory, said on the 17th that the target of the Israeli army's attack was an industrial facility belonging to Tahmaz Company, a purely commercial company mainly engaged in steel business. It is well-known in Lebanon and is also an internationally renowned company. "The facility is a civilian facility and has nothing to do with terrorism, war or military industry."

"This is the residence of factory workers. These Syrian brothers came here to make a living and to secure their future, but now they are all killed. The Israeli army has killed innocent people and destroyed civilian facilities that have nothing to do with the regional situation," said Tahmaz.

He added: "The best evidence that the facility is just a civilian industrial facility is the footage of dozens of journalists who were here early in the morning. If there were any weapons or ammunition stored here, or the so-called explosives that the IDF claims to have, they would have discovered them quickly and the damage caused by the attack would have been much greater."

The Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates issued a statement on the 17th, strongly condemning the Israeli army's attack as "deliberate" and saying that this act was "a new massacre of a Syrian family by Zionism."

The statement said: "Syria strongly condemns yet another Zionist massacre. This crime committed by Israel today is a blatant violation of international conventions and international law, a violation of Lebanon's sovereignty and territorial integrity, and a threat to peace and security in the region. Syria will stand with the brotherly Lebanese people to resist the ongoing aggression."

In a statement on the same day, Hezbollah in Lebanon said that in retaliation for the Israeli attack, Hezbollah launched an attack on the Ayelet Hashahar settlement in northern Israel. The area is located in the northeast of Safed, about 12 kilometers from the temporary border between Lebanon and Israel.

The Israel Defense Forces said on the 17th that Lebanon fired a total of 55 rockets in this attack. Two soldiers were injured in the attack. Some rockets fell in open areas and caused multiple fires. The Israeli fire and rescue department has rushed to the scene to extinguish the fire.

According to previous reports, on July 30, Israel launched an airstrike on a target in the southern suburbs of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, killing Hezbollah's senior military commander Shukur and several civilians. 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-occupied Golan Heights from time to time, and the Israeli army has retaliated with air strikes and artillery shelling of southern Lebanon. The conflict between the two sides on the Israeli-Palestinian border continues to this day, and a large number of residents have been forced to evacuate.

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