Beirut, July 29 (UNI) Four Lebanese civilians were injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli warplane fired three air-to-ground missiles at a house in the municipality of Chihine, wounding four civilians, destroying the house, and causing material damage to several homes.
The sources added that the civil defense and the Lebanese Red Cross worked to remove the rubble and transported the wounded to the Italian hospital in the city of Tyre, west of southern Lebanon.
They noted that Israeli drones and warplanes carried out three raids on Sunday afternoon, targeting three towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
They continued that the Israeli artillery shelled nine towns and villages in the border area in southern Lebanon with about 40 shells, 12 of which targeted the outskirts of the southeast town of Shebaa.
The sources indicated that anxiety and tension prevail in the border area in southern Lebanon in light of the repeated Israeli threats to launch a military operation that will make Hezbollah “pay a heavy price” after a missile fell a day earlier in the town of Majdal Shams in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, killing 12 people and wounding several others.
The Israeli army accused Hezbollah of firing the rocket, while Hezbollah denied involvement in the incident.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced in a series of statements that the Islamic Resistance launched several attacks on Israeli targets in the Manara settlement and other attacks on soldiers in the Shtula settlement and the Ruwaisat al-Alam site.
Also on Sunday, Lebanon’s Middle East Airlines announced the delay of the return of some of its flights from Sunday night to Monday morning.
Mohammad al-Hout, chairman of the board of directors of Middle East Airlines, said in an interview with al-Jadeed, a local TV channel, that he is opposed to the simultaneous presence of many aircraft at the Beirut airport, but stressed that he has no information indicating an Israeli strike targeting the Beirut airport.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon.
