There are still “about a hundred residents” in Kfar Kila, however “by chance, the houses that were destroyed were empty” when the bombings took place, the mayor of the community told AFP.
At least three homes were “completely destroyed” by Israeli air strikes on Friday in the southern Lebanese village of Kfar Qila, Lebanon’s official ANI news agency and the border community’s mayor said.
ANI reported four houses targeted by Israeli strikes in Kfar Qila since yesterday morning; three were “completely destroyed”.
Since the day after Hamas attacked southern sectors of Israeli territory on October 7, exchanges of fire have been practically daily on the Israel/Lebanon border between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, an ally of the Palestinian Islamist movement to which the Israeli civil-military leadership has sworn to “eliminate” the Gaza Strip.
Israel returns Hezbollah fire by shelling villages on the border. The hostilities have claimed the lives of at least 195 people in Lebanon, of whom 142 were fighters from Hezbollah, an organization close to Iran that has a particularly strong presence in the southern part of the country. On the Israeli side, 15 people have been killed, nine soldiers and six civilians, according to Chahal, the Israeli military.
A fifth house was also hit by artillery fire, according to ANI, which did not report any casualties.
There are still “about a hundred residents” in Kfar Kila, however “by chance, the houses that were destroyed were empty” when the bombings took place, the mayor of the community told AFP.
The Israeli military said yesterday that it “conducted airstrikes” while “artillery and tanks opened fire” against “Hezbollah observation points and terrorist infrastructure” in the areas of the Houla and Kfar Qila communities.
Yesterday afternoon, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for three attacks, two of which targeted “military gatherings of the Israeli enemy” on the border, with Burkan-type rockets, which can carry a large amount of explosives.
“The Israeli enemy is not ready for the war that the Islamic resistance in Lebanon is preparing for it,” the head of the parliamentary group of the Islamic party Mohammad Raad said yesterday, according to ANI.
On Wednesday, Israel’s chief of staff, Herchi Halevi, said the possibility of war “in the coming months” in northern Israel, on the border with Lebanon, is now “much higher than in the past.”
On the same day, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that a possible new war between Israel and Hezbollah would cause “absolute disaster”.
Source :Skai
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