One woman died and five other people were wounded today in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon, almost eleven months after the start of hostilities between the Shiite group Hezbollah and Israel, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.
“Israeli enemy artillery fire on the town of Qabrikha killed a woman and wounded two other people, including a 12-year-old child,” the ministry said in a statement.
Three other people were wounded in an Israeli attack on the border town of Houla, according to the statement.
For its part, the Israeli army indicated that its planes hit the town of Qabrikha, claiming that it was a location from which Hezbollah “launched rockets in recent days”.
The army also reported firing 65 projectiles from Lebanese territory and said it had intercepted several of them, with others falling in uninhabited areas. No casualties were reported.
Since the start of the war between Israel and the Islamist movement Hamas in October in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese group Hezbollah has exchanged daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces in support of its Palestinian partner.
Hezbollah announced on its side that it carried out several attacks today, including “salvoes of Katyusha rockets” against a barracks and artillery positions in two areas of northern Israel.
Israel claims it is attacking the military infrastructure and fighters of the Shiite movement in southern Lebanon, an ally of Iran, and in the east of the country.
In response, Hezbollah is mainly targeting military positions in northern Israel.
According to the UN, more than 110,000 people have been displaced in southern Lebanon as a result of cross-border firefights that have left 610 dead, most of them fighters.
On the Israeli side, 24 soldiers and 26 civilians were killed, according to the army. Around 100,000 people have been displaced by the fighting in the north of the country, according to the Israeli authorities.
The current conflict in the Gaza Strip was triggered by an unprecedented Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, which left around 1,200 people dead and took nearly 250 hostages.
In response, Israel launched a major air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip, which claimed more than 40,000 lives, according to the Hamas Health Ministry, mostly women and minors, caused a humanitarian disaster and destabilized the entire Middle East.
