Cairo (EFE).- New Israeli attacks on towns in southern Lebanon killed at least six people and wounded 17 others on Saturday, increasing the death toll from the Israeli offensive in the Mediterranean country to nearly 2,500 over the past seven weeks.
According to the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Operations Center, four people died in two Israeli airstrikes targeting a truck and a motorcycle in the town of Yahmar al Shaqif, in the Nabatieh region.
In a separate statement, the Lebanese health authority confirmed that two other people were killed and 17 injured in another Israeli attack on the southern town of Safad al Batikh, in the Bint Jbeil district.
Before that latest incident, the center stated that the death toll from Israeli bombings had reached 2,496, with 7,725 wounded since March 2, when the Israeli Army intensified its military offensive against Lebanon after the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah resumed launching drones and projectiles at Israel in response to its conflict with the United States against Iran.
Lebanese state media reported numerous Israeli bombardments on southern Lebanese towns, the demolition of homes, and the overflight of Israeli drones over southern Beirut throughout the day today.
The new attacks coincided with a fresh warning issued by the Israeli Army on Saturday to Lebanese residents displaced from the south of the country, advising them not to return to their homes in some sixty localities because Israeli troops remain positioned there despite the current truce.
The Israeli Army also asserted in a statement that its forces continue to attack Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in southern Lebanon, with the aim of eliminating a threat to its soldiers, who occupy several southern Lebanese towns, and the Israeli civilian population.
For his part, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered the Army on Saturday to attack the Shiite formation «forcefully,» his office said in a brief message.
The announcement came after the Israeli Army reported two projectiles and a drone launched from Lebanon into Israeli territory, which it described as a blatant violation of the ceasefire by Hezbollah. EFE
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