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Israel kills 3 Syrian children in attack on southern Lebanon: Report

Tuesday, 16 July 2024 7:23 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 16 July 2024 7:24 PM ]

Smoke billows from explosions in Kfar Kila in southern Lebanon after an Israeli strike on July 12, 2024. (File photo by AFP)

Three Syrian children have been killed in an Israeli strike on southern Lebanon.

The children were killed on Tuesday in the strike on agricultural land in the village of Umm al-Tut.

Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) said the children were killed “in an enemy raid that targeted farmland in the village of Umm al-Tut.”

NNA said separate Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon killed five people.

Israeli strike kills three civilians, injures another 3 in southern Lebanon

At least three civilians have been killed and another three wounded in an Israeli airstrike against a residential building in southern Lebanon.

A Lebanese security source, speaking to AFP on condition of anonymity, said two "civilians" from Syria who worked nearby and had been swimming in the area were killed.

The Lebanese state news agency had earlier reported two Syrians were killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting a motorcycle on the Kfar Tebnit-Khardali road in southern Lebanon, making the total five Syrians killed in one day.

The NNA said, “Eyewitnesses reported that the motorbike was carrying two people and that when a number of citizens tried to approach the bike... it was subjected to a second strike.”

Also on Tuesday, NNA's correspondent reported the outskirts of Al-Qawzah and the area between Aita Al-Shaab and Ramia were hit by a number of artillery shells shot from the enemy positions inside the occupied Palestinian territories.

Israeli forces have carried out near-daily airstrikes against Lebanon and Syria since early October, shortly after the regime forces launched the genocidal war on Gaza following a retaliatory operation by the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.

Hezbollah strikes in solidarity with Palestinians, meant to protect Lebanon: Official

Deputy Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem said fighters in the Lebanese resistance movement are committed to confront the occupation of their Palestinian brethren.

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah said its fighters fired retaliatory rockets at Israeli positions.

Hezbollah said it launched "dozens of Katyusha rockets" at Kiryat Shmona "in response to the Israeli enemy attacks" on southern Lebanon, "particularly Kfar Tebnit and “the death of two civilians.”

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up retaliatory attacks in solidarity with the Palestinians as long as Israel continues the barbarous campaign in Gaza.

Israeli strikes on Lebanon have killed 511 people since October, according to an AFP tally.

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Tel Aviv, adding, however, if one breaks out, they are ready.

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