Official Lebanese media announced that four people from the same family were killed on Sunday in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, with Hezbollah claiming to fire “dozens of rockets” at northern Israel in retaliation.
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Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah, an ally of Palestinian Hamas, has exchanged fire almost daily with the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli border.
Palestinian factions and other allied groups have also claimed attacks from Lebanon against Israel.
“Four people from the same family” were killed in a “raid by the Israeli army” on the village of Mays al-Jabal, said the official Lebanese information agency (ANI), updating a previous report state of three victims.
They are a man, a woman and their children aged 12 and 21, according to ANI, which specified that two other people were injured.
A Lebanese security Source, who requested anonymity, confirmed that the strike killed “four civilians”.
Earlier, the head of the municipality of Mays al-Jabal, Abdelmoneim Choukeir, confirmed to AFP the raid in this sector and reported “a couple and their little boy who were martyred in the strike”.
According to ANI, residents of the village were inspecting their houses and shops damaged in previous bombings at the time of the raid. The injured were transported to area hospitals.
Shortly after, Hezbollah said in a statement that it had fired “dozens of Katyusha and Falaq rockets” at Kiryat Shmona, in northern Israel, “in response to the horrible crime that the Israeli enemy committed in Mays al -Jabal”.
On Saturday evening, Hezbollah also claimed responsibility for firing on military positions in northern Israel.
In nearly seven months of cross-border violence, at least 390 people, including 255 Hezbollah fighters and more than 70 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon, according to an AFP count. At least 11 Hamas fighters were killed according to the same count.
On the Israeli side, eleven soldiers and nine civilians were killed, according to an official report.
