Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war on October 7, clashes between the Israeli army and Iran-backed Hezbollah have increased along the Lebanese-Israeli border, raising fears of a wider conflict.
An AFP photographer saw rescue workers collecting human remains and the wreckage of a burnt-out car near the Rashidiya Palestinian refugee camp near the coastal city of Tyre.
The deceased was not immediately identified.
The Iranian-backed Lebanese movement Hezbollah says its attacks on Israel are aimed at showing support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Hamas. At the same time, Israel is striking deeper and deeper into Lebanese territory, targeting Hezbollah and Hamas officials, among other things.
Two Hezbollah members were killed in an Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon on Tuesday, and one person was killed in a strike in the same region deep inside the country on Monday.
Hezbollah said early Tuesday that it fired more than a hundred Katyusha rockets at two military bases in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, “in response to Israeli attacks (…) recently directed near Baalbek,” the group’s bastion in the east.
According to the AFP news agency, at least 320 people, mostly Hezbollah fighters, have been killed in Lebanon since the war between Israel and Hamas broke out in October. Among the dead are also 54 civilians.
At least ten Israeli soldiers and seven civilians were killed in northern Israel at the time, Israeli officials said.
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2024-04-12 13:48:35