Israel’s military struck areas of southern Lebanon on Wednesday (November 22), as cross-border hostilities with Lebanese armed group Hezbollah continued. There was no immediate confirmation of casualties.
The strikes came a day after eight people were killed by Israeli fire near the border, including two journalists working for a Lebanese TV channel and a senior Hamas official, according to Lebanese state media and official sources.
Hezbollah said on Tuesday it had retaliated over the killing of the journalists by firing at an Israeli base across the border. The deaths brought those killed in Lebanon since the beginning of hostilities along the border to more than 80 people, mostly fighters from Hezbollah.
Violence along the border broke out after Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack. Israel and Hezbollah – a Hamas ally – have exchanged rocket fire in fighting that has steadily escalated.
(Reuters)