More injured in Israel’s Lebanon attack, including children
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says in an update about the Israeli air raid on al-Abbassieh in southern Lebanon that the number of injured has risen to 17, with four in critical condition.
In a statement cited by the country’s state-run National News Agency, it reports that 12 of the wounded are Lebanese, four are Syrians, and one is a Palestinian.
A 17-year-old boy is among the critically wounded, with other emergency cases including a 16-year-old boy, an eight-year-old girl and a Lebanese woman.
The Israeli military, which has carried out numerous air raids and assassinations in Lebanon since the start of the war on Gaza, has not commented on the al-Abbassieh air raid.
Hezbollah launches rocket attack on Kiryat Shmona after Lebanon attack
Rockets have hit Israel’s Kiryat Shmona after its army bombed a crowded area in Lebanon’s al-Abbassieh that targeted a motorcycle. Hezbollah said it launched a volley of Katyusha rockets on the northern Israeli area in retaliation, with local authorities reporting damage but no casualties.
Hezbollah has claimed seven attacks on Israeli positions today, with another using “squadrons of suicide drones” to hit a gathering of soldiers along the border.
لحظات سقوط عدد من الصواريخ على مستوطنة "كريات شمونة" دون تفعيل صافرات الإنذار#فيديو #حرب_غزة pic.twitter.com/7EOkn017Dx
— الجزيرة فلسطين (@AJA_Palestine) August 14, 2024
Translation: Moments of a number of rockets falling on the settlement of Kiryat Shmona without activating the sirens.
Casualties reported after Israeli strike in southern Lebanon
Lebanon’s Health Ministry says one person has been killed and one wounded following an Israeli attack on the town of Blida. Earlier, we reported that Hezbollah hit Israel’s Kiryat Shmona area after its army bombed a crowded area in Lebanon’s al-Abbassieh, targeting a motorcycle.
