Israeli airstrikes on Southern Lebanon kill 7
At least seven were killed in Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon in the early hours of March 27, Reuters reported.
The strike appeared to have targeted the Islamic group’s emergency and relief centre, situated in the village of Hebbariyeh, Nabatieh.
A day prior, Hezbollah confirmed on social media site Telegram that three of their fighters were killed in by Israeli airstrikes in northeast Lebanon.
Israel confirmed the strikes near Baalbek and Hermel and said than an army aircraft targeted a number of military sites used by Hezbollah in response to a recent rocket attack on one of its bases near the Lebanese border.
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The Lebanese militant group added on March 27 that they launched dozens of rockets at Kiryet Shmona, a town in northern Israel, in retaliation to deadly Israeli strikes on March 26.
Israel also killed 11 Palestinians in the southern Gazan city of Rafah on March 27, escalating worldwide fears that a full-on offensive will happen in the highly congested city now home to 1.5 million people due to mass internal displacement caused by the incessant pummeling of the enclave.
Since Hamas’ unprecedented assault on southern Israel in October, Hezbollah and Israeli forces have been trading blows on a near daily basis. The southern border skirmishes have killed in excess of 300 people, 246 of those Hezbollah fighters, in what has been the worst period of fighting since the one-month war in 2006.
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