The Israeli army said its planes had “eliminated” members of a “terrorist cell” from the Tayr Harfa region in southern Lebanon.
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Seven people, including a child, were killed on Friday, August 23, in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, three of them fighters from the Islamist movement Hezbollah, the Health Ministry said.
“Israeli strike on Tayr Harfa village leaves three dead”explained the Lebanese Ministry of Health on Friday, August 23. Hezbollah, for its part, announced the death of three of its fighters, without specifying where they had been killed. The Israeli army, for its part, declared that its planes had “eliminated” members of a “terrorist cell planning to fire projectiles” from the Tayr Harfa region.
Three other Israeli strikes in the south of the country killed four more people, including a 7-year-old child, the Health Ministry said. Since October, violence has killed 600 people in Lebanon, including 386 Hezbollah fighters, but also at least 131 civilians, according to a count established by AFP. In Israel and on the occupied Syrian Golan Heights, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.
