Hezbollah bombs northern Israel in retaliation for deadly raid
Lebanese Hezbollah announced this Wednesday March 27 that it had launched a salvo of rockets on northern Israel in retaliation for a nighttime bombing, blamed on Israel, which killed seven “rescuers” in a border village.
A Lebanese Islamist group, Jamaa Islamiya, reported the death of seven “rescuers”, killed in an Israeli strike in Habariyeh, near the border with Israel, on March 27, 2024. AP - Mohammad Zaatari
By: RFI with AFP
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A Lebanese Islamist group, Jamaa Islamiya, earlier reported the death of seven “
rescuers
”, killed in an Israeli strike in Habariyeh, near the border with Israel, denouncing a “
heinous crime
”. “
In retaliation for the massacre committed by the Zionist enemy in the village of Habariyeh (..)
”,
Hezbollah
launched “
dozens of rockets on Kyriat Shmona
”, the powerful Islamist movement said in a statement.
A Jamaa Islamiya official told AFP earlier on condition of anonymity that the "
seven rescuers
" were killed while at an emergency center in Habariyeh. Another leader of the group, who also requested anonymity, reported that around ten rescuers were in the center at the time of the strike. Several groups in
Lebanon
, including Jamaa Islamiya, operate health centers and emergency response operations.
The Lebanese National News Agency also reported an “
Israeli air raid
” which left seven rescuers dead, four civilians injured, and which destroyed the center. For its part, the Israeli army affirmed that its “
fighter planes targeted a military complex
” where there was “
a major terrorist preparing attacks against Israeli territory
”. She claimed that this man had “
been eliminated, along with other terrorists who were in his company
”.
At least 338 people killed in Lebanon since the start of the war
Since the start of the war on October 7 between
Israel
and Hamas in the
Gaza Strip
, Hezbollah and other allied groups of the Palestinian Islamist movement have carried out almost daily exchanges of fire with Israeli forces along the southern border. from Lebanon.
Israel responds by bombarding Lebanese territory deeper and deeper and carries out targeted attacks against Hezbollah and Hamas officials. The Jamaa Islamiya has an armed wing, the Al-Fajr Forces, which has claimed attacks against Israel since the start of the violence.
At least 338 people have been killed in Lebanon - mostly Hezbollah fighters, but also at least 57 civilians - in these exchanges of fire in almost six months, according to an AFP count. This border violence also displaced thousands of people in southern Lebanon, but also in northern Israel, where according to the army, ten soldiers and seven civilians were killed.
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