Israeli strikes continue amid nominal ceasefire
Israeli strikes targeted Thursday the southern city of Nabatieh and other villages and towns in south Lebanon, while Hezbollah claimed attacks on Israeli troops and equipment in al-Bayyada and Deir Seryan.
Strikes targeted overnight into Thursday al-Majadel, Debbine, Mayfadoun, Habboush, Yater, Dweir, Bouyout al-Siyyed, Kfar Roumman, Harees, Reshknanay, and Erzi, while shelling targeted Aita al-Shaab, Ramia, Shaqra, Baraashit, Ghandourieh, Kfour, Deir Zahrani, Sreefa, Froun, Qalaway, Burj Qalaway, Zebqine and Wadi al-Hjeir.
Some of the Israeli strikes, on the southern city of Nabatieh, targeted a shopping center and residential buildings, state media and an AFP correspondent said.
In the nearby village of Toul, two rescuers from the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee were wounded in an Israeli strike as they were dispatched following a previous attack, spokesperson Mahmoud Karaki told AFP.
The team's ambulance was heavily damaged. Another strike targeted a group of rescuers, also from the Islamic Health Committee, in Majdal Selem.
The Israeli army later ordered the residents of Deir Zahrani, Habboush and Bfaroueh to evacuate ahead of imminent strikes, and targeted cars in Blat and Ain Baal, killing at least two people.
Hezbollah said it attacked an Israeli army command center and a Merkava tank in the southern border town of al-Bayyada.
At least 12 people were killed in strikes Wednesday.
A senior commander from Hezbollah's elite force was killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut's southern suburbs, the first on the area in nearly a month.
In south Lebanon, a strike on Saksakiyeh killed four people and wounded 33, including women and children and another strike on Ansarieh killed three and wounded seven.
In the east, an Israeli airstrike on the town of Zellaya, in the West Bekaa region, left at least four people dead, including two women and an elderly man.
On Wednesday Hezbollah announced in a series of statements that it had targeted Israeli forces and vehicles in a number of border towns in southern Lebanon.
Source: Naharnet
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