Casualties in Israeli attack on Lebanon include children: State media
We are receiving updates on Israel’s air attack on southern Lebanon.
About 10 people have been killed, including two children, and five have been wounded by the attack on a residential building in the city of Nabatieh, according to state news agency NNA.
The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a final toll of the attack would be announced after DNA tests were conducted to determine the identity of the victims.
The Israeli military said the air attack targeted a weapons depot used by Hezbollah.
Yaser Jaber, an engineer, stands at a damaged site in the aftermath of what Lebanon’s state media said was an Israeli strike in al-Kfour, Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, on August 17
Northern Israel on high alert after Nabatieh attack
Israel’s Upper Galilee Regional Council has issued an alert for residents near the Lebanese border, urging them to stay near bomb shelters, reports The Times of Israel. The warning applies to residents of the Israeli communities of Hulata, Yesud HaMa’ala, Sde Eliezer, Ayelet Hashachar, Gadot, Mishmar HaYarden and Machanayim, it said.
The alert comes after an Israeli attack killed 10 people in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh city.
Forty rockets shot towards northern Israel: Report
More than 40 rockets have been shot towards northern Israel, reports Israel’s Army Radio, after residents in the area were alerted that they should stay near bomb shelters. Our colleagues on the ground are also reporting dozens of rockets, shot from southern Lebanon, towards northern Israel.
Fire, power outages in northern Israel after missile barrage: Reports
Numerous projectiles have been intercepted in northern Israel, according to Israeli media and footage verified by Al Jazeera’s fact-checking agency Sanad. The incoming projectiles or fragments have sparked a fire in Israel’s Biriya forest, while power has gone out in the towns of Safed and HaGlilit, reports Israel’s Ynet news site.
Hezbollah claims rocket attack on northern Israel as fires spread
Fires caused by incoming rocket have now broken out in at least 10 places in northern Israel, reports The Times of Israel. Hezbollah in a statement said it had fired the volley of rockets at Israel, targeting the kibbutz of Ayelet HaShahar for the first time. The Lebanese group said it launched the rocket salvo to retaliate against an earlier Israeli attack in Lebanon’s Nabatieh that killed 10 people.
About 55 rockets fired from Lebanon to Israel: Army
The Israeli military has confirmed the rocket attack targeting the Israeli settlement of Ayelet HaShahar, which was previously announced and claimed by Hezbollah.
Some of the rockets fell in open areas, and there were no casualties, the army said. “As a result of the rockets, several fires developed in the area with fire brigades now working on the scene,” it said.
Earlier today, a soldier was seriously wounded and another one was slightly injured in another attack on a military position near the northern community of Misgav Am, the statement also said, adding that the troops were being treated.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rocket attack as well as a drone attack earlier.
One injured in southern Lebanon after motorcycle struck
An air attack has hit a motorcycle near the southern Lebanese city of Tyre, reports Lebanon’s National News Agency. The attack, to the east of Tyre, injured one person who has been rushed into an ambulance, it said. Lebanon’s an-Nahar news site reported the Israeli military carried out the attack, which comes after a rocket barrage claimed by Hezbollah hit areas in Israel’s north.
Israel says Hezbollah commander killed in Tyre attack
One person has now been killed in an Israeli attack on a motorcycle near Lebanon’s Tyre, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency. Israel’s military in a statement confirmed it carried out the attack, which it said killed a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, named as Hussein Ibrahim Kaseb.
Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the attack.
Fires spread in north Israel after Hezbollah rocket barrage
We’ve been reporting on a large barrage of rockets fired by Lebanon’s Hezbollah at targets in northern Israel. Video posted by Israeli news outlet Ynet shows large fires spreading after the rockets made landfall.
Wildfires have been frequent occurrences during the daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army, as the hot, dry summer continues along the border.
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