4 dead, 11 hurt in south Lebanon airstrikes after rockets cause casualties at Israel's northern HQ
Rockets from Lebanon targeted the Israeli army's northern headquarters in Safad on Wednesday morning, killing a female soldier and wounding seven others, Israeli reports said.
Another Israeli soldier was found dead later in the day, raising the death toll to two, reports said.
Israeli army spokesman said in a post on the X platform that several rockets from Lebanon targeted Israel’s Netua area, Menara and the Israeli army’s headquarters in northern Israel. The Israeli army “attacked the sources of the shooting,” he added.
The Israeli military later said that its fighter jets "began a series of strikes in Lebanon," in an apparent response to the attack.
The strikes, deep in the south, targeted the outskirts of the Iqlim al-Tuffah towns of Jbaa, Sanya, Zhalta and Buslayya, a building on the Adshit-Qsaybeh road in Nabatiyeh, al-Shehabiyeh in the Tyre district and al-Sawwaneh in the Marjeyoun district, the National News Agency (NNA) said.
The bombardment killed three people in al-Sawwaneh and one person in Adshit. At least nine people were meanwhile wounded in Adshit.
Since the outbreak of the Hamas-Israel war on October 7, at least 243 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 30 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
On the Israeli side, nine soldiers and six civilians have been killed, according to Israeli official figures.
Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir meanwhile described the attack on Safad as a “declaration of war,” calling for “a radical change in how Israel is managing the balance of power on the Lebanese border.”
Hezbollah has not announced its responsibility for the attack until the moment and other groups had fired rockets at northern Israel in recent months.
14 February 2024, 14:02
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How interesting and full of complete lies.
The rockets hit a housing area of the city of Safad killing a civilian mother and injured her children amongst others.
14 February 2024, 23:07
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15 February 2024, 01:52
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@hereyougo : As an expatriate who ventured beyond the borders of our homeland years ago, the essence of what you ascribe to me, I dare say, cannot find resonance. For in traversing the realms of unfamiliarity and embracing the nuanced intricacies of a foreign land, I have become an amalgamation of experiences, shaped by the cadence of distant shores and the mosaic of cultures that now color my existence.
Paranoia, like a malevolent puppeteer, pulls the strings of perception, making even the most mundane encounters feel like a macabre dance with unseen forces. It's a disconcerting journey into the macabre recesses of the psyche, where the line between the real and the imagined is twisted into a disorienting, haunting tapestry of fear.
15 February 2024, 10:51
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@phillipo: Do you read your own Israeli news media?
"An Israeli soldier was killed and eight others were wounded as a barrage of at least 11 rockets fired from Lebanon slammed into Safed and an army base in the northern city, the military and medical officials said."
https://www.timesofisrael.com/one-killed-8-injured-as-rocket-barrage-from-lebanon-hits-safed/
15 February 2024, 15:16
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Philippo the zionist tool striking again with his superior idiocy.
