Five people have died in Israeli raids in Lebanon, state media reports

The Israeli army confirmed that it had carried out strikes, but did not mention any death toll.

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Smoke billows following an Israeli strike near the village of Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon on July 16, 2024. (RABIH DAHER / AFP)

The war between Israel and Hamas continues to spread to Lebanon. The official Lebanese News Agency (ANI) announced the death, on Tuesday, July 16, of five people in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. “Three Syrian children” were killed “during an enemy raid on farmland in the village of Oum Tout”the agency said. Another “enemy strike” A drone attack targeted a motorcycle traveling on the Kfar Tebnit road, killing the two Syrians on board, the source said.

After this latest attack, the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah declared that it had fired “dozens of Katyusha rockets” on the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, “in response to attacks by the Israeli enemy”The Israeli army, for its part, reported an air strike which “targeted in the Blat region a site for launching projectiles towards the Kiryat Shmona region”as well as’“a Hezbollah terrorist cell” in the Yarine region, near Oum Tout.

The IDF also confirmed the strikes carried out by Hezbollah on its territory. “About 40 projectiles were fired from Lebanon into Israeli territory, some of which were intercepted.” “No injuries were reported,” claims the Israeli army.


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