Nine individuals were killed in an Israeli air raid on Saturday in southern Lebanon, according to the health ministry of Lebanon. The Israeli military also reported hitting the Hezbollah movement’s weapons depots.
According to a statement from Lebanon’s health ministry, the attack in the Nabatieh district claimed the lives of “a woman and her two children” and injured five more people, two of them gravely.
Israel’s military, on its Telegram channel, said the air force had struck a weapons storage facility of Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement overnight “in the area of Nabatieh”, which is about 12 kilometres (seven miles) from the nearest point of the Israeli border.
Since October, when Israeli forces and Palestinian Hamas terrorists started fighting in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah, which is supported by Iran, and Israeli soldiers have been exchanging gunfire over their border almost every day.
With negotiations on a ceasefire in Gaza, international mediators have been attempting to prevent fears of a wider regional war, which coincides with the most recent occurrence.
