Israeli strike near southern Lebanese coastal city of Tyre kills four
Another three have been wounded in an Israeli strike on the town of Maarakeh near Tyre, NNA said, adding that the figure was an initial toll. Civil defence teams are currently working on evacuations amid the destruction, NNA said.
Israel army says soldier killed in combat in Lebanon
The Israeli military has said that a soldier was killed in south Lebanon, where its troops have waged war since late September after a year of cross-border exchanges of fire.
The death brings to 50 the military’s losses in Lebanon since the start of ground operations and comes amid a US-led push to secure a truce.
Maarakeh death toll rises to 5
We earlier reported on an Israeli attack that struck the town of Maarakeh near Tyre. The death toll now stands at five, according to Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA), and 23 people have been wounded.
Other attacks on areas in the Tyre district today killed at least nine other people, NNA said.
Lebanese Health Ministry offers preliminary toll of Israeli strikes on Tyre
Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health has said that a preliminary toll of Israel’s bombing of Tyre shows nine people killed and 65 injured. “Nine martyrs and 65 wounded in the preliminary toll of the raids on Tyre district,” the agency said in a social media post.
Israel says three soldiers killed in Lebanon in updated toll
The Israeli military has said that three soldiers, including a 70-year-old, have been killed in fighting in southern Lebanon. Earlier on Wednesday, Israeli authorities announced that a 22-year-old soldier “fell during combat in southern Lebanon”.
Israeli authorities have updated that figure to include two more deaths, including a 70-year-old reservist named Ze’ev ‘Jabo’ Hanoch Erlich. The Yesha Council, which represents Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, said that Erlich was a “pioneer of research in geography, archaeology and Jewish history of Judea and Samaria” and lived in the settlement of Ofra.
Another solider was injured in the same incident, and has been taken to a hospital for treatment.
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