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A man was killed on March 27 morning after Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets at the northern Israeli settlement of Kiryat Shmona in a response to a deadly Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon hours earlier.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said that some 30 rockets were launched at Kiryat Shmona in the attack, while Hezbollah claimed in a statement that it had launched “dozens of rockets” at the settlement and the command of the Israeli 769th Hiram Division at a nearby base.
Some of the rockets were seen being downed by the Iron Dome air defense system, but at least four struck Kiryat Shmona. The rocket attack damaged a number of residential buildings and a factory in the settlement. A man was also killed.
Hezbollah said that the attack was a response to an Israeli war on the Gaza Strip as well as to an overnight Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese town of Habbariyeh and claimed the lives of seven people.
Overnight, the IDF announced that it had struck a “military building” in Habbariyeh, killing a “significant terrorist” of the Islamic Group, along with several other operatives who were with him in the building. The IDF said the target, who was not named, had “advanced attacks against Israeli territory.”
The target of the Israeli airstrike on Habbariyeh was in fact an emergency and relief center belonging to the Islamic Group, according to Lebanese media, who reported that the victims were all civilian first responders.
The Islamic Group, which is considered to be the Lebanese branch of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood, have carried out several attacks from southern Lebanon since the outbreak of the war in Gaza, in coordination with Hezbollah and its Palestinian ally, the Hamas Movement.
The exchange of deadly strikes came just a day after the IDF struck Hezbollah sites deep in Lebanon in response to another attack by the group against the sensitive Mount Meron air traffic control base in northern Israel.
The airstrike that hit the outskirts of the town of Zboud in the northeastern Lebanese region of Baalbek on March 26 was Israel’s deepest in Lebanon since the outbreak of the war in Gaza.
After the airstrike, Hezbollah fired a barrage of around 50 rockets at northern Israel, claiming to target an army base in the occupied Syrian Golan Heights. In response to the rocket attack, the IDF carried out another strike against a Hezbollah target in Baalbek.
Since the outbreak of the Israeli war on Gaza last October, Hezbollah and its allies began launching near-daily attacks against the IDF in support of Hamas and other Palestinian armed factions in the Strip.
So far, the border clashes have resulted in eight civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least ten IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 300 people have been killed, including 235 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 60 civilians.
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another one bites the dust. some more, and my tax money wont go down there anymore, good!
israel is the face of the nwo and is digging the grave for the us/uk empire one murder at a time.
play with fire and get burnt ya israeli scum
a sucata cúpula de ferro iron dome é inútil!