The crossfire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army continued with intensity this Sunday, October 27. The day was marked by an unprecedented air strike against a suburb of Saida, Lebanon’s third city, located 60 kilometers from the front. Eight people were killed and 25 others injured in the raid on the large Haret Saïda district. According to a provisional report, twenty other people, including three rescue workers, were killed in bombings which targeted southern Lebanon and the Baalbek region, in the east of the country.
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With our correspondent in Beirut, Paul Khalifeh
This is the first time that the large city of Saida, with a Sunni majority, has been targeted by an air raid by Israel. The Haret Saïda district targeted by the planes is mainly inhabited by Shiite families. The raid caused significant destruction in the directly affected building and in dozens of surrounding homes and businesses.
Israeli aircraft and artillery concentrated their fire this Sunday on the south of the Lebanonwhere 32 localities were shelled. Two raids also targeted the surroundings of the historic town of Baalbek, in eastern Lebanon. The official national news agency reported, early in the evening, a raid on the nature reserve in the coastal town of Tyre. The Israeli army also ordered residents of 14 villages in the south to evacuate their homes.
THE Hezbollah for its part claimed twenty operations against concentrations of Israeli troops inside Lebanese territory and in northern Israel. A military factory near the city of Acre was attacked by drones and a military-industrial complex north of Haifa was targeted by a salvo of rockets.
Among the targets this Sunday, several regions of Galilee appearing on a list of 25 localities whose inhabitants were called to evacuate by Hezbollah.