The Israeli military announced on Wednesday evening the elimination of two Hezbollah cells in South Lebanon. According to the military’s statement, Hezbollah confirmed the death of two new members, one in a raid in Naqoura and the other in Tyre Harfa.
The army targeted a cell located in a building in the town of Tyre Harfa, while another group of Hezbollah members was attacked in Naqoura, reported the Times of Israel.
Previously, the Israeli military had disclosed that a barrage of rockets was fired from Lebanon, with at least 30 rockets targeting the northern city of Kiryat Shmona.
Israeli media sources reported one fatality and two injuries in Kiryat Shmona due to the rocket fire from Lebanon.
Israeli Strike Hits South Lebanon
An Israeli strike on Wednesday evening targeted a café in the Naqoura area in South Lebanon, causing injuries, according to the Lebanese National News Agency.
Security sources told Reuters that five people were killed in an Israeli strike in South Lebanon, including Hezbollah fighters.
Earlier in the day, Hezbollah had announced that it had targeted Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel with dozens of rockets in response to earlier bombings in Habariya on Wednesday. Hezbollah stated that the Israeli attack on the town of Habariya in South Lebanon, which resulted in the death of 7 paramedics, would not go unpunished.
Haaretz reported that a 25-year-old was killed in a rocket attack on the town of Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel, launched from Lebanon earlier in the day.
The Israeli military said that at least 30 rockets were fired at Kiryat Shmona in northern Israel.
It also mentioned that an airstrike conducted by its aircraft on the Habariya area in South Lebanon early Wednesday targeted what it described as a “saboteur.”
The Israeli military spokesperson stated that the targeted individual had promoted terrorist attacks towards Israeli territory and belonged to the Islamic Group organization, which had also been involved in past attacks against Israel. The spokesperson added that several other “saboteurs” were killed in the same airstrike.
The “Islamic Group,” a Lebanese Islamic faction associated with the Palestinian Hamas movement, announced that an Israeli airstrike targeted a medical center in the village of Habariya in South Lebanon early Wednesday, resulting in seven fatalities.
A source within the Islamic Group told AFP that “seven paramedics” were killed in the airstrike targeting a medical center in Habariya, operated by the “Lebanese Ambulance Association” affiliated with the group.
The “Lebanese Ambulance Association,” affiliated with the Islamic Group, said in a statement that the strike targeted a building in Habariya used by its emergency and relief unit. The statement described the targeting as a heinous crime, a blatant violation of international laws and conventions, holding the executing party fully responsible.
Another official from the Islamic Group mentioned that more than ten paramedics were in the medical center at the time of the strike, and bodies were extracted from under the rubble.
Israeli strikes on Tuesday targeted the Hermel area, a Hezbollah stronghold in northeast Lebanon, approximately 130 kilometers from the southern border with Israel, reported Beirut’s official media and a security source.
These strikes mark the first targeting of the Hermel area in the Bekaa Valley, the deepest into Lebanese territory since the onset of cross-border shelling between Hezbollah and Israel about six months ago.
Cross-border shelling has been almost daily between the Lebanese Hezbollah and the Israeli military since the war between Israel and the Palestinian movement in the Gaza Strip began on October 7.
Despite Hezbollah being the strongest armed organization in Lebanon, several factions, Palestinian and Lebanese, have increasingly declared their involvement in attacks against Israel.
Israel has been conducting deeper airstrikes inside Lebanese territory targeting Hezbollah sites, raising concerns of a full-scale war.
Since the beginning of the cross-border shelling between Hezbollah and the Israeli military, at least 331 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters, in addition to 57 civilians, according to a tally prepared by AFP based on data from the party and official Lebanese sources.
This tally does not include the fatalities from the early Wednesday strike in Habariya.
Conversely, at least 10 Israeli soldiers have been killed by fire originating from Lebanon.