Firefighters work at the site where a rocket landed after a lethal rocket strike on Israel, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, at a factory in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Avi Ohayon
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Lebanon’s Hezbollah said it launched dozens of rockets at Kiryat Shmona, an Israeli town over the border, early on Wednesday in response to deadly Israeli strikes on the village of Hebbariyeh in southern Lebanon a day earlier.
Israeli police work at the site where a rocket landed after a lethal rocket strike on Israel, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, at a factory in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Avi Ohayon
Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been trading fire across the border since the Israel-Hamas war erupted in Gaza, in the biggest escalation between the old enemies since a month-long conflict in 2006.
Israeli police work at the site where a rocket landed after a lethal rocket strike on Israel, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, at a factory in Kiryat Shmona, northern Israel March 27, 2024. REUTERS/Avi Ohayon
Both sides have said they do not want all-out war and are open to a diplomatic process but strikes have picked up this week after a lull in cross-border shelling.
Security sources in Lebanon said at least eight people including Hezbollah fighters were killed on Wednesday by Israeli airstrikes in the country’s south.
Five were killed in the border village of Tair Harfa and at least three others in a restaurant in the border town of Naqura, the security sources and official Lebanese media said.
Israeli emergency services earlier said a rocket strike on Wednesday killed a factory worker in Kiryat Shmona following warning sirens in the area.
Paramedics from the MDA ambulance service said the man was pulled from the wreckage of the factory with severe wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
At least seven people were killed in the Israeli strikes on Hebbariyeh, two Lebanese security sources told Reuters.
The Israeli strikes appeared to be aimed at the Shi’ite Muslim Hezbollah’s emergency and relief centre in the village, the sources said.
Hezbollah earlier on Wednesday had condemned the attack on Hebbariyeh. Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon had already killed more than half a dozen medical personnel and rescue workers, according to Lebanon’s health ministry.
On Tuesday, Israeli air strikes near two towns in northeast Lebanon killed three Hezbollah militants, the group posted on Telegram. Israel confirmed those strikes.
The Gaza war has spread beyond the enclave’s borders to other parts of the Middle East and the Israeli military said pilots have stepped up practising long-range strikes across the northern border with Lebanon in a hint of further escalation.
The Israeli Air Force (IAF) froze its normal annual training when it began its campaign of air strikes against Gaza in response to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack but has gradually returned to training in recent weeks, it said.
“The training program will focus on increasing the IAF’s readiness for war in the northern arena and in other arenas during prolonged combat,” the military said in a statement.
The training will include “massive, long-range strikes, flying deep into enemy territory”, it said.
Aside from the violence in Gaza and on the Israel-Lebanon border, Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis have been attacking ships in and around the Red Sea, while armed groups in Iraq with close ties to Iran have targeting bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam and James Mackenzie, Additional reporting by Suleiman al Khalidi; Writing by Enas Alashray and Clauda Tanios; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Michael Georgy, Andrew Heavens, Alex Richardson and Estelle Shirbon)
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