At least six people, including a child, died in southern Lebanon after Israeli air strikes, the Lebanese news agency reported.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered that strikes at dozens of “terrorist” targets are in response to “Rocket Fire” at Israel of Libanon Saturday morning.
It was the heaviest fire exchange since an American broker wearing between Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah in November.
The Israeli army said it intercepted three rockets that were launched from a Lebanese district about four kilometers north of the border to the Israeli city of metula. This is the second time since December that rockets have been fired from Lebanon to Israel.
Smoking rises in southern Lebanon to Israeli strikes. Photo: Reuters
Hezbollah denied the responsibility for the attack, saying that it had “no link” to the introductions and that it remained dedicated to the ceasefire. No group demanded responsibility.
The fresh violence expressed concern about whether the fragile ceasefire could hold.
According to the Lebanese state news agency NNA, which cited health officials, strikes in the southern village of Touline and Coastal City of Tire six people, including a child, killed and 18 others, including two children.
The Reuters News Agency also reports two deaths in the Bint Jbeil municipality.
NNA reported that a flurry of Israeli air strikes and artillery pigs in the country’s war-limited south, including border towns and hills about five miles within the Lebanese area.
An Israeli soldier stands above the Israeli border town of metula. Photo: Reuters
The strikes have also come Hamas Free the 59 hostages it contains – of which 24 are believed alive.
Hezbollah began the day after Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023 with rockets, drones and missiles in Israel.
The Israel-Hezbollah conflict then broke out in a war in September last year when Israel carried out massive waves of air strikes and killed most senior leaders of the militant group.
Photo: Reuters
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The fights killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and displaced about 60,000 Israelis.
Under the ceasefire reached in November, the Israeli forces agreed to withdraw from the entire Lebanese area at the end of January.
The deadline was expanded by agreement between Lebanon and Israel until February 18.
However, since then, Israel has remained in five places in Lebanon, opposite the communities in the north of Israel, and carried out dozens of air strikes in the south and eastern Lebanon, saying it has attacked Hezbollah.
Lebanon called on the UN to push Israel to fully extract from the land.
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Nawaf Salam asked the Lebanese army to take all necessary measures in the south, but in a statement said the country did not want to return to the war.
The interim power of the United Nations in Lebanon (Unifil) said it was upset about the possible increase in violence and urged all parties to avoid the progress made, saying that further escalation could have serious consequences for the region.
