Exchanges of fire have been almost daily between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas, since the start of the war in Gaza. This Sunday, March 10, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah announced that it had launched dozens of rockets on a town in northern Israel after strikes the day before that left five people dead, including three members of the party.
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Tensions are increasing between the Lebanon And Israel. THE Hezbollah said he launched in the morning “ dozens of katyoucha type rockets » on the Meron, eight kilometers from the border. This agricultural village is home to a major military air traffic control base that the pro-Iranian party targeted several times since the beginning of the year.
The training said it had acted “ in response to Israeli attacks on southern villages and civilian homes », notably the attack which targeted the house of a party fighter in Kherbet Selm the day before. A woman and another person were also killed in this strike, according to the official Lebanese agency Ani.
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Thirty-five launches from Lebanon
“ Around 35 launches from Lebanon have been identified towards Israeli territory, a number of which were intercepted », indicated for its part the Israeli army this Sunday March 10. The statement added that the Israeli air force targeted several “ infrastructure » of the party, including “ a military structure where Hezbollah terrorists were identified, in Kherbet Selm “.
Since the start of cross-border violence on October 8, at least 312 people, most of them Hezbollah fighters and 53 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon, according to an AFP tally. In Israel, ten soldiers and seven civilians died. Tens of thousands of residents have fled the border area. Hezbollah repeats that it will only stop its attacks with a ceasefire in Gaza. Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant recently warned that a possible truce in Gaza would not begin ” the objective » of Israel to push Hezbollah from its northern border, by force or diplomacy.
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