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Ten killed, five wounded in Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon: Health Ministry

Saturday, 17 August 2024 7:25 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 17 August 2024 10:50 AM ]

Lebanese emergency workers and locals gather near the site of an Israeli airstrike against a building in the Wadi al-Kafour region, northwest of the city of Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, on August 17, 2024. (Photo via social media)

At least ten people were killed and five others seriously wounded when Israeli military aircraft carried out an airstrike on a residential building in southern Lebanon, the Health Ministry says.

The aerial attack targeted the structure in the Wadi al-Kafour region northwest of the city of Nabatieh early on Saturday, it added.

Lebanon’s al-Mayadeen television news channel reported that the victims of the Israeli attack in southern Lebanon were Syrian nationals.

Israeli military forces also struck the villages of Maroun al-Ras, Hanine, Aitaroun, Kfar Kila and Ayta ash Shab, as well as the town of Khiam.

The developments come only a few days after the ministry said the death toll from Israeli strikes on towns and villages in the southern part of the country following the onset of a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip stood at nearly 550.

The Lebanese Health Ministry announced in its latest update published on Wednesday that at least 547 people, including 35 women and 20 children and teenagers, have been killed ever since Israel began its attacks against Lebanon following the latest Gaza war that began on October 7 last year.

The ministry added that 1,765 people have also been wounded, with over 100,000 internally displaced.

Hezbollah: Response to Israeli assassinations ‘definite’

Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah has once again stressed its determination to retaliate against the Israeli assassination of its senior commander, despite US efforts to spare its ally the consequences of its crimes.

A state of anticipation and caution prevails in Lebanon following the assassination of senior Hezbollah military commander Fuad Shukr in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the southern Beirut suburb of Dahieh on July 30.

Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah has vowed retaliation for the act of terror.

Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging deadly fire since early October last year, shortly after the regime launched the genocidal war against the Gaza Strip in response to a surprise operation by the Palestinian Hamas resistance group.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory attacks as long as the Israeli regime continues its war on Gaza, which has so far killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, in the besieged territory.

Hezbollah officials have repeatedly said they do not want a war with Israel while stressing that they are prepared in case it occurs.

Two Israeli wars waged against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006 were met with strong resistance from Hezbollah, resulting in the retreat of the regime in both conflicts.

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