Border clashes resume after Israeli strikes on medics
The Israeli army bombed Friday several border towns in south Lebanon, as U.S.-led airstrikes on Yemen's Houthi rebels raised fears of a regional conflagration.
The Israeli artillery shelled Mays al-Jabal, Houla, Dhaira and Tayr Harfa.
On Thursday, Hezbollah said an Israeli strike killed two affiliated medics in south Lebanon in what it called a "blatant attack" on the first aid clinic where they worked.
Hezbollah launched "dozens of rockets" on the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona "in response".
Lebanon's health ministry condemned the attack "in the strongest terms" saying that it "directly targeted the Islamic Health Committee centre" and also hit an ambulance.
Later Thursday, a civil defense center belonging to the Risala Scout association -- a group affiliated with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement -- "was hit by a missile fired from an enemy warplane," Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported.
The missile did not explode and emergency teams based in the center "survived" the strike in the southern village of Khiam, NNA said.
On November 5, four Risala Scouts first responders were wounded when an Israeli strike hit two ambulances in south Lebanon.
Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7.
More than three months of violence have killed 190 people in Lebanon, more than 140 of them Hezbollah fighters but over 20 of them civilians, including three journalists, according to an AFP tally.
In northern Israel, nine soldiers and at least four civilians have been killed, according to Israeli authorities.
Source: Naharnet, Agence France Presse
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