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SvennoJ on 04 September 2024
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Lebanon health ministry says woman dead in Israeli strikes

Lebanon’s health ministry has said Israeli strikes killed a woman and wounded five other people in the country’s south.

Israel and Lebanon’s Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since October 7.

“Israeli enemy artillery fire targeting the locality of Qabrikha killed a woman and wounded two other people, including a 12-year-old,” the ministry said in a statement.

Three other people were wounded in an Israeli strike targeting the border locality of Hula, the ministry said.

Hezbollah says it attacks Israeli positions in occupied Syrian Golan Heights

The Lebanese group says it has carried out an attack on the Israeli army with a volley of Katyusha rockets in retaliation for Israeli attacks on villages in southern Lebanon.

The rockets were launched towards Israeli artillery positions in al-Zaoura in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, it said.

The attack was also carried out “in support of our steadfast Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and in support of their valiant and honorable resistance”, according to a Hezbollah statement.

Hezbollah and Israel have been engaging in tit-for-tat attacks along Lebanon’s southern border since the start of the war in Gaza in October.

Israel carries out more strikes on southern Lebanon

Lebanese media, as well as video posted on social media that Al Jazeera has verified, are showing Israeli warplanes hitting towns across the south of the country.

The country’s state-run National News Agency reported that Israeli aircraft carried out a series of strikes targeting the outskirts of several villages: Majdal Zoun, al-Jebbayn, Wadi Hassan, Wadi Zebqin and al-Aziyah.

These are areas near the major southern city of Tyre.

On X, Israel said its fighter jets “attacked more than 10 military infrastructures and launchers” belonging to Lebanon’s Hezbollah in the areas mentioned above, claiming they were a threat to the country.

Translation: A series of air strikes targeted the vicinity of the [Litani River] channel towards the towns of Dersarian and Zawtar.