In a statement, Hezbollah said that its members launched “dozens of Katyusha rockets” into northern Israel “as part of a response to attacks by Israel’s enemies on… civilian homes, especially is the horrifying massacre in Hanin as well as the killing and wounding of civilians,” according to AFP.
Rescuers and Lebanese media confirmed that an Israeli attack on a house in the town of Hanin, near the Israeli border, killed two members of the same family. Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) confirmed the death toll and reported that six people were injured in the attack.
Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike on the village of Majdel Zoun near the southern Lebanese border on April 21.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides of the Israel-Lebanon border since near-daily fighting began following the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on Israel that kicked off the conflict. Hamas -Israel in Gaza.
But Hezbollah has stepped up rocket attacks on Israeli positions in recent days, according to AFP.
Earlier on April 23, Hezbollah announced that it had launched attacks using drones (UAVs) on northern Israeli bases to avenge the killing of a Hezbollah member whom Israel described as “an official”. important”. That UAV attack was aimed deeper into Israel than the border area where Hezbollah usually attacks.
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Hezbollah said it launched “a combined air strike using drones as decoys and explosives” targeting two Israeli bases in the city of Acre, while Israel confirmed those UAVs did not hit the target.
On the morning of April 23, Hezbollah announced that one of its members was killed by Israeli fire. Hezbollah also announced that another member was killed in an Israeli attack the night before.
Meanwhile, the Israeli army announced that it had killed “two terrorists in Hezbollah’s air force unit” in attacks on the night of April 22 and the morning of April 23.
Fighting across the Israel-Lebanon border since October 2023 has killed at least 380 people in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah members but also at least 72 civilians, according to the latest AFP figures. According to the Israeli army, at least 11 soldiers and 8 civilians were killed on their side of the border.
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