The war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas entered its twelfth month on Saturday. On Sunday, September 8, the Israeli army announced that it had carried out attacks overnight against military buildings of the Islamist movement Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.
“At night [de samedi à dimanche]Israeli aircraft attacked Hezbollah military buildings in the regions of Aïtaroun, Maroun Al-Ras and Yaroun, in southern Lebanon »the army said in a statement, claiming to have intercepted several rockets fired from Lebanon.
Responding to the deaths of emergency workers in Lebanon
Hezbollah claimed to have fired a volley of rockets at a town in northern Israel early Sunday in retaliation for an attack that Lebanon’s Health Ministry said killed three rescue workers in southern Lebanon. “In response to enemy attacks (…) and in particular in the attack » which cost the lives of rescuers on Saturday, Hezbollah fighters “bombed” (…) Kiryat Shmona with a barrage of rockets »the group, backed by Iran, said in a statement.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced on Saturday that three rescuers were killed and two others wounded during an Israeli attack on a civil defense team. “to put out the fires caused by the recent Israeli attacks on the village of Froun”The ministry announced in a statement, adding that two other people were injured, one of whom is in critical condition.
In a statement, Civil Defense confirmed the death of three of its members in “an Israeli attack targeting a fire truck”. The ministry condemned “This blatant Israeli attack targeted the equipment of an official body of the Lebanese state”.
Southern Lebanon has been the scene of almost daily exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli army since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7, 2023 between Israel and Hamas, an ally of the pro-Iranian Lebanese movement.
More than 600 dead in Lebanon, 50 in Israel
In Lebanon, the cross-border violence has left 614 dead, most of them Hezbollah fighters, but also at least 138 civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse count. On the Israeli side, according to the army, 24 soldiers and 26 civilians were killed.
In a statement, Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati called Saturday’s attack a “new aggression” and of “flagrant violation of international law”Hezbollah’s ally Amal movement later said two of its members were among the victims killed. “while fulfilling their humanitarian duty”According to the Ministry of Health, this attack is “The second of its kind against an emergency team in less than twelve hours”.
Earlier on Saturday, the ministry said two emergency personnel from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were injured when “The Israeli enemy has[vait] deliberately targeted” in the vicinity of the fire they were going to put out in Qabrikha (south), which caused them to lose control of their vehicle.
