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  • 08 NOVEMBER 2024
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Woman and child killed in Israeli strike on house in southern Lebanon

Two civilians from the same family, a woman and a 12-year-old girl, were killed in southern Lebanon in an Israeli strike, rescue workers told AFP on Thursday.

Woman and child killed in Israeli strike on house in southern Lebanon
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A source from the Lebanese civil defense said that "a woman in her fifties and a 12-year-old girl were killed."
The official news agency ANI confirmed the death toll, adding that "six other people were wounded in an Israeli airstrike" on a house in Hanine, near the Israeli border.

The Al Manar television channel, which acts as a mouthpiece for Hezbollah, confirmed the civilian deaths and put the number of wounded at five.

The Israeli military has yet to comment on the Hanine strike, although it has confirmed that Israeli warplanes today bombed two buildings where terrorists were located and a series of military installations in three different areas of southern Lebanon.

For its part, Hezbollah has claimed responsibility for six new attacks throughout the day against groups of soldiers and military positions in northern Israel, the most prominent of them with several 'drones' [unmanned aircraft] against a barracks located about 15 kilometers from the common border.

This militant group, which has intensified its attacks in recent days, usually only targets border positions.

For more than six months, Israel has been bombing targets deeper and deeper into Lebanon, and its drones regularly target members of the pro-Iranian movement.

The exchanges of fire between Israel and Hezbollah since the beginning of the Gaza war on October 7 have left 378 dead on the Lebanese side, including 252 fighters from the Lebanese movement and about 70 civilians, according to an AFP count.

In northern Israel, eleven soldiers and eight civilians have been killed, according to the army. Tens of thousands of inhabitants have had to flee the area on both sides of the border.

According to the Associated Press (AP) news agency, Israel has regularly carried out "targeted assassinations" of members of the Islamist movements Hezbollah and Hamas in Lebanon, sometimes in areas far from the border.

The Lebanese group Hezbollah and its allies have been attacking Israel along the border for more than six months, in the context of the Israeli war against the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, prompting almost daily responses from Tel Aviv.

The Gaza war began on October 7, after Hamas attacked Israeli territory, killing more than 1,200 people and kidnapping more than 240, and led to Israel's subsequent military operation in the enclave, which has already killed more than 34,000 people, according to the local health ministry, controlled by Hamas.

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