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Israel targets Hezbollah's ammunition depot in Lebanon

by Agence France-Presse - AFP

BEIRUT Aug 19, 2024 - 10:10 pm GMT+3
Edited By Nurbanu Tanrıkulu Kızıl
Smoke rises from a fire that broke out due to projectiles fired from southern Lebanon, Aug. 17, 2024. (EPA Photo)
Smoke rises from a fire that broke out due to projectiles fired from southern Lebanon, Aug. 17, 2024. (EPA Photo)
by Agence France-Presse - AFP Aug 19, 2024 10:10 pm
Edited By Nurbanu Tanrıkulu Kızıl

Israel hit the ammunition depots of Hezbollah in Lebanon's east on Monday, a source said, amid ongoing tensions in the region.

The source close to Iran-backed Hezbollah said "Israeli strikes in the (eastern) Bekaa region targeted Hezbollah weapons depots," requesting anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.

Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) said three locations in Lebanon's east witnessed "enemy Israeli raids this evening."

Lebanon's health ministry said the strikes in east Lebanon "injured eight people, including six Lebanese citizens, a five-year-old Syrian girl, and a fifteen-year-old Syrian girl."

Hezbollah has exchanged regular fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas after its Oct. 7 attack on Israel sparked the Gaza war.

The violence has largely been restricted to the Lebanon-Israel border area, although Israel has repeatedly struck the country's eastern Bekaa valley, where Hezbollah has a strong presence.

Fears of further escalation have mounted as Hezbollah and Iran vowed to respond after an Israeli strike last month on Beirut killed senior Hezbollah commander Fuad Shukr, hours before an attack in Tehran, blamed on Israel, killed Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Earlier on Monday, the Israeli military said a member of its Bedouin Trackers Unit was killed in northern Israel.

Meanwhile, Lebanon's health ministry reported a person was killed after "an Israeli enemy drone strike that targeted a car" near the coastal city of Tyre.

Hezbollah said two of its fighters were "martyred," which followed Lebanon's health ministry reporting that an Israeli strike left two people dead in the border village of Hula.

Israel's military said its air force struck Hezbollah in the Hula area and "Hezbollah military structures" elsewhere in south Lebanon.

Hezbollah had said that it had responded to an Israeli "attack and assassination" in south Lebanon's Tyre area, where the Israeli army on Saturday said its aircraft had "eliminated" a Hezbollah "commander" in the group's elite Radwan force.

The group said it launched a "simultaneous air attack" with "explosive-laden drones" on the Israeli Yaara barracks near the border, and a base near the coastal town of Acre, around 15 kilometers (10 miles) from the frontier.

The Israeli military said "multiple suspicious aerial targets were identified crossing from Lebanon," most of which were intercepted though others fell in the Yaara area.

Early on Monday, Hezbollah also said its fighters targeted a group of Israeli soldiers "infiltrating" near the border and confronted them "with rocket weapons and artillery, forcing them to return."

The NNA reported "enemy warplanes" flying at low altitude broke the sound barrier twice over Beirut and its suburbs.

'Impunity'

Imran Riza, the United Nations humanitarian coordinator in Lebanon, said in a statement that "nearly 150,000 people continue to live in areas impacted daily by shelling and air strikes" in Lebanon.

"Millions more are reliving painful memories of the 2006 war, traumatised by worry over the risk of further escalation," he said, referring to the last major conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

According to the U.N.'s International Organization for Migration, the violence since October has displaced more than 110,000 people in south Lebanon.

In Israel, authorities say some 100,000 people have been displaced in the country's north.

Riza added that "21 paramedics whose duties were to save others have been killed", saying "the seeming impunity with which such actions have been committed reveals a troubling disregard for international humanitarian law."

The cross-border violence has killed some 585 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but including at least 128 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, including in the annexed Golan Heights, 23 soldiers and 26 civilians have been killed, according to army figures.

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