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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment over the Lebanese village of Al-Najjariyeh on May 17, 2024, in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. — AFP pic
BEIRUT, May 17 — Israeli air strikes hit today an area of southern Lebanon far from the border, Lebanese official media said, following days of escalating clashes between Israel and armed group Hezbollah.
The Iran-backed group, a Hamas ally, has traded cross-border fire with Israeli forces almost daily since the Palestinian group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza, now in its eighth month.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said “Israeli strikes targeted Najjariyeh and Addousiyeh”, two adjacent villages about 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the Israeli border just south of the coastal city of Sidon.
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The NNA reported “victims” without elaborating, and an AFP photographer saw ambulances heading to the targeted sites.
The strikes hit a pickup truck in Najjariyeh and an orchard, the photographer said.
Hezbollah — which has intensified its cross-border attacks in recent days, prompting Israeli strikes deeper into Lebanese territory — announced today it had launched “attack drones” on Israeli military positions.
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It came a day after the powerful Lebanese group said it had attacked an army position in Metula, a border town in northern Israel, wounding three soldiers.
Hezbollah said the attack was carried out with an “attack drone carrying two S5 rockets”, which are normally launched from jets.
Also yesterday, the group announced the deaths of two of its fighters in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. The NNA said they were killed when their car was targeted.
Lebanese soldiers, an ambulance and civilians gather near the site of Israeli bombardment in the village of Zahrani on May 17, 2024, in southern Lebanon near the border with Israel. — AFP pic
Hezbollah earlier yesterday said it had launched dozens of Katyusha rockets at Israeli positions in the annexed Golan Heights.
Israel retaliated with overnight air raids on Lebanon’s eastern Baalbek region, a Hezbollah stronghold near the Syrian border.
Earlier this week, Hezbollah said it had targeted an Israeli base near Tiberias, about 30 kilometres from the Lebanese border — one of the group’s deepest attacks into Israeli territory since clashes began on October 8.
The Wednesday strike came a day after the death of a Hezbollah member, which Israel said was a field commander, in an attack on southern Lebanon.
The cross-border fighting has killed at least 415 people in Lebanon, mostly militants but also including 80 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
Israel says 14 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed on its side of the border. — AFP
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