An Israeli airstrike on a southern Lebanese village has killed four people and wounded five, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said on Thursday.
The ministry said the four killed in the airstrike on the village of Chamaa were Syrian citizens. It said five Lebanese citizens were wounded in the same airstrike.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said in a speech Thursday that his fighters had stopped carrying out attacks along the border following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut on Tuesday that killed Fouad Shukur, a top military commander with the group.
Hezbollah later said that it fired dozens of Katyusha rockets toward the Matzuva kibbutz in northern Israel in retaliation for the airstrike.
Nasrallah said Hezbollah will resume attacks on Friday but this will not be part of the retaliation that the group plans to carry for Shukur’s death.
Israel said the strike that killed Shukur was in retaliation for a rocket attack on Saturday that killed 12 young people in the town of Majdal Shams in Syria’s Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Nasrallah on Thursday repeated the group’s denials that it fired the rocket that struck Majdal Shams.
