Illustrative image. (The Israeli Defense Forces)
A fighter from Hezbollah and another from the al-Quds Brigade, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, were killed in a series of Israeli strikes that targeted southern Lebanon on June 28.
Lebanese military sources told China’s Xinhua news agency that two fighters were killed when a strike destroyed a three-story house in the town of Kafr Kila.
Four civilians were also wounded in the town of Khiam, where seven houses were destroyed and 15 others were damaged by Israeli strikes, according to the sources, which noted that another strike hit a military center of Hezbollah in the Jabal Safi.
Hezbollah and al-Qus Brigade mourned their fighters in official statements. Meanwhile, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released footage of the strikes that targeted Lebanon on June 28 and overnight.
The deadly Israeli strikes didn’t deter Hezbollah. The group announced eight attacks against the IDF during the day in response to the strike and in support of the Palestinian people and resistance in the Gaza Strip.
In two of the attacks, Hezbollah fired “dozens” of rockets at the headquarters of the Sahel Battalion in the Beit Hillel barracks and launched a “squadron” of suicide drones at a newly-established headquarters of the 411th Artillery Battalion in the Gatoun area. Hebrew media admitted material losses, but didn’t report any casualties.
The clashes on the Lebanese-Israeli border first broke out after the start of the war in Gaza last October, with Hezbollah and its allies carrying out attacks in support of the Strip.
So far, the border clashes have resulted in ten civilian deaths on the Israeli side, as well as the deaths of at least 15 IDF soldiers and reservists. On the Lebanese side, more than 500 people have been killed, including 335 fighters of Hezbollah and at least 90 civilians.
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