Lebanon: Hezbollah Launches Two Attacks on Israeli Outposts in Shebaa Farms

People inspect the damage at the site of an airstrike in Habbariyah, southern Lebanon, 27 March 2024. (EPA)
People inspect the damage at the site of an airstrike in Habbariyah, southern Lebanon, 27 March 2024. (EPA)
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Lebanon: Hezbollah Launches Two Attacks on Israeli Outposts in Shebaa Farms

People inspect the damage at the site of an airstrike in Habbariyah, southern Lebanon, 27 March 2024. (EPA)
People inspect the damage at the site of an airstrike in Habbariyah, southern Lebanon, 27 March 2024. (EPA)

Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said it carried out two attacks on Friday on an Israeli military outpost in the Shebaa Farms in “support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip”.
On its account on Telegram, Hezbollah said its militants inflicted “direct” missile hits on the Zebdine barracks. It also said that three of its members were killed in Israeli strikes in South Lebanon.
On Thursday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said nine members of Hezbollah and the Amal party were killed in Israeli shelling that targeted the towns of Naqoura and Tayr Harfa in the south.
Seven people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Al-Habbariyah in southern Lebanon early on Wednesday, before Israel announced that 30 rockets were launched from Lebanon on the town of Kiryat Shmona in the north, resulting in one casualty, according to the Arab World Press agency.
Israel and Hezbollah have been trading fire across Lebanon's southern border in parallel with the Gaza war. More than 270 Hezbollah fighters and 50 civilians - including medics, civilians and journalists, have been killed in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon. About a dozen Israeli troops and half as many civilians have been killed in northern Israel.



Death Toll in Lebanon Crosses 3,000 in 13-Month Israel-Hezbollah War, Health Ministry Says

A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
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Death Toll in Lebanon Crosses 3,000 in 13-Month Israel-Hezbollah War, Health Ministry Says

A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)
A building destroyed during an Israeli airstrike southern Lebanese town of Ghazieh, 03 November 2024. (EPA)

More than 3,000 people have been killed in Lebanon during 13 months of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah, Lebanon's Health Ministry said Monday. At least 13,492 have been injured.

Hezbollah began firing rockets into northern Israel the day after Hamas’ surprise attack into Israel on Oct. 7, 2023 ignited the war in Gaza. Hezbollah and Hamas are both allied with Iran.

The conflict dramatically escalated on Sept. 23 with intense Israeli airstrikes on south and east Lebanon as well as Beirut’s southern suburbs, leaving hundreds dead and leading to the displacement of nearly 1.2 million people.

Israel began a ground invasion of south Lebanon on Oct. 1, causing wide destruction in border villages but making little advances on the ground inside Lebanon.

In Israel, 72 people have been killed from Hezbollah attacks, including 30 soldiers.