Lebanon Health Ministry says three killed in Israeli strike
The Hindu
Hezbollah and Israel exchange fire near Lebanon border, resulting in casualties and escalating tensions in the region.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said a child was among three people killed in an Israeli strike in the country's south on Thursday (September 12, 2024), amid ongoing exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah.
Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group has been trading near-daily cross-border fire with Israeli forces since Palestinian militant group Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, sparking war in the Gaza Strip.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said an "Israeli enemy strike" hit the village of Kfarjouz near Nabatieh, around 10 kilometres (six miles) from the border with Israel.
The strike killed "three people, among them a child, and wounded three others", the Ministry said, without providing further details.
A source close to Hezbollah confirmed that one of the dead was "a fighter in Hezbollah" and the two others were "civilians".
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the strike "targeted two motorcycles on the Nabatieh-Kfarjouz road", adding that a passing car was also hit.
In a statement posted to Telegram early Friday, Hezbollah said it had fired a barrage of Katyusha rockets at Israel's Northern Command "in response to the attack and assassination carried out" in Kfarjouz.
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