Israel shells south as Hezbollah targets Israeli posts
Israeli artillery shelling targeted Friday the outskirts of the southern border town of Ramia, as reconnaissance drones overflew south Lebanon at a low altitude, violating Lebanese air space.
Hezbollah later attacked many Israeli posts including al-Assi, al-Manara, al-Bayyad, al-Mutella, al-Jerdah, Berket Risha, and the Dhaira post. The Israeli army shelled in response Mays al-Jabal's outskirts and the town's hospital, Blida, Mhaibib, and Marwahin. It also shelled al-Labbouneh, and the outskirts of several Lebanese border towns.
One female doctor was lightly wounded in the shelling on Mays al-Jabal hospital.
Israel's military said Friday that it hit overnight Hezbollah infrastructure in Lebanon with artillery and guided mortar munitions.
The violence has left 83 people dead on the Lebanese side, including 11 civilians and 61 Hezbollah fighters. The others are Palestinian militants. Seven Hezbollah fighters were meanwhile killed in an airstrike in Syria that Israel said was in response to a drone strike on the southern Israeli town of Eilat.
Israeli officials have reported at least four deaths, including one civilian, but the Galilee Medical Center in northern Israel has reportedly received since the start of the border skirmishes with Lebanon more than 350 Israeli soldiers and settlers, some of them seriously wounded.
"We have received more than 350 wounded settlers and soldiers, some of them in serious condition," Israeli media reported the hospital in Nahariya as saying.
The Israeli war on Gaza has stoked regional tensions, including daily cross-border exchanges between Israel's military and Hezbollah.
Hezbollah has targeted since October 8 several Israeli posts and infantry forces.
Hamas also has a number of fighters in south Lebanon and has previously claimed attacks on Israel from there.
Source: Naharnet
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