2024-08-18
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Source: CCTV News Client
According to the Lebanese National News Agency, the Lebanese Ministry of Health said on the 17th:Israel launched an airstrike in southern Lebanon early that morning, killing 10 people and injuring 5.
The Israeli military said its forces attacked an arms depot of Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that the Israeli army launched multiple rounds of attacks on several towns on the Lebanese side of the temporary border between Lebanon and Israel on the 17th. Among them, Israel launched an airstrike on a building in southern Lebanon in the early morning of the same day, killing ten people and injuring five. The dead were all Syrian nationals. Lebanon's Hezbollah said that after the airstrike, they fired rockets into northern Israel in retaliation.
The Israeli Defense Forces reported on the 17th that they detected dozens of rocket attacks from Lebanon that day, which triggered alarms and fires in many places, but did not cause casualties. The Israeli army launched multiple attacks on Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon, including a building allegedly used as a weapons depot for Hezbollah. The Israeli army said they killed a Rawand commander named Hussein Ibrahim Kasseb in the attack. The Lebanese Hezbollah confirmed the death of the member on the same day, but did not mention his specific position.
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.