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SvennoJ on 15 August 2024
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Two Hezbollah fighters killed in southern Lebanon

The Lebanese armed group announced the deaths of Hussein Yassin Shaito and Mohamed Ali Jihad Badr al-Din on its Telegram channel. It said the two fighters were killed in southern Lebanon but did not specify the exact location.

The announcements followed an Israeli drone attack on the centre of the town of Marjayoun that killed at least two people and wounded four, according to Lebanese officials.

The Israeli military confirmed the attack on Marjayoun and said two Hezbollah fighters were killed. It added that its fighter jets bombed a Hezbollah “military structure” in the village of Aita al-Shaab and launched artillery attacks on the town of Rmeish in southern Lebanon.


Hezbollah fires volley of rockets at Israel’s Beit Hillel

The Lebanese armed group said it fired a “volley of Katyusha rockets” at an Israeli military barracks in Beit Hillel in northern Israel. The attack, it said, was in retaliation for an Israeli attack on the Lebanese town of Blida earlier on Wednesday that killed at least one person.

Israel’s Ynet News meanwhile reported air raid sirens sounding in Beit Hillel and the nearby town of Kiryat Shmona in the early hours of the morning and said about 10 rockets crossed from Lebanon into Israeli territory. The projectiles exploded in open areas and did not cause any injuries or damage, it added.


Child, woman among injured after deadly drone attack on West Bank refugee camp

The Wafa news agency reports that a child and a woman were among four injured in the Israeli drone attack that killed two young Palestinian men early this morning in the Balata refugee camp.

Four others were shot and injured during the Israeli military raid on the camp, located east of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports. The two men killed in the drone attack were named Ahmed al-Sheikh Khalil and Wael Mish. Both were residents of the refugee camp.

The Palestine Red Crescent Society told the news agency that Israeli forces detained its ambulance crew as they transported the wounded from Balata to a hospital for medical care.

Translation: Watch… Part of the occupation forces storming Balata camp in Nablus.


Surge in Israeli forces killing, injuring Palestinian children in occupied West Bank: UN

The Israeli military’s killing and wounding of Palestinian children with live ammunition has surged in the occupied West Bank since October 7 compared to the previous 10 months, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA).

Since October 7 and the Hamas attack on southern Israel and Israel’s war on Gaza, 115 Palestinian children have been killed by Israeli gunfire. In the previous 10 months up to October, the number of Palestinian children slain by Israeli live fire stood at 39.

The number of Palestinian children wounded by Israeli ammunition in the occupied territory has also doubled during the same period, with 1,411 children injured by bullets since October 7 compared to 615 over the previous 10 months.

The UN has also recorded 1,250 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians since October, including some 120 settler attacks that led to the death and injury of Palestinians.

In one attack on August 12, Israeli settlers with knives abducted two 15-year-old shepherds, and forced them into an illegal settler outpost where they “assaulted the boys, broke their legs, and urinated on them”, the UN reports. “Afterwards, the settlers handcuffed the boys, put them in a vehicle and threw them in an open area” where they were later found, the UN said.


Israeli special forces abduct 2 Palestinians from Tulkarem: Report

The Wafa news agency is reporting that Israeli special forces kidnapped two young Palestinian men from the city of Tulkarem in the occupied West Bank at dawn.

The agency, citing local sources, identified the two men as Abdul Badir and Nadim Abu al-Rab. It said the Israeli special forces infiltrated Tulkarem in vehicles bearing Palestinian licence plates and were disguised in civilian clothes.


Israel confirms 2 killed in air strike in occupied West Bank

Israel’s military said its air forces “attacked and eliminated” two Palestinian fighters during an operation in the Nablus area. The killings took place while Israeli soldiers and “special forces” escorted and “secured the entrance of worshippers to Joseph’s Tomb in Nablus tonight”.

We reported earlier that two Palestinian men were killed in an Israeli drone strike in the Balata refugee camp – located adjacent to Balata village on the outskirts of Nablus – which also wounded four other people, including a woman and a child.

Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic reported clashes and casualties in Nablus city as Israeli forces raided the area while escorting Jewish visitors to the flashpoint shrine of Joseph’s Tomb, which is located in Balata village.