Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group wound 7 Israeli troops, 10 others along border with Israel

JERUSALEM – Attacks by Lebanon’s Hezbollah group Sunday wounded seven Israeli troops and 10 other folks, Israel’s army and rescue services and products mentioned.

The clashes got here as skirmishes between the Iran-backed group and Israeli army proceed to accentuate along the Lebanon-Israel border, threatening to escalate into every other entrance within the Mideast’s latest war.

The Israeli army mentioned in a observation that “seven IDF soldiers were lightly injured as a result of the mortar shell launches in the area of Manara in northern Israel earlier today.” Israeli rescue services did not identify the location or provide information about the 10 others wounded by rocket blasts and shrapnel, but said two of them were in critical condition.

The Israeli military said they identified 15 launches from Lebanon over the past hour and their defense systems intercepted four of them. The rest fell into open areas.

Hamas’ military wing, meanwhile, claimed responsibility for shelling the northern Haifa and the Israeli border towns of Na’ura and Shlomi from southern Lebanon without giving any further details.

Hezbollah first fired antitank missiles at an Israeli community just over the border on Sunday, Israeli officials said, badly wounding utility workers. The Israeli military said it was striking the origin of the launch with artillery fire. The Israel Electric Corp. said workers in the rural community of Dovev were wounded while repairing lines damaged in a previous attack. Israeli media reported that six people were wounded, including one critically.

Israel struck several southern Lebanese towns, including Yaroun, Mays el-Jabal, and Alma al-Shaab.

The Israeli army Sunday night time shared an aerial video appearing moves on what it mentioned was once Hezbollah militant infrastructure together with a “military compound with a warehouse of weapons and military infrastructure.” It did not give any additional details. Hezbollah said it launched guided missiles against a “logistical force belonging to the occupation army that was about to install transmission poles and eavesdropping and spying devices near the Dovev barracks.” It mentioned it hit an Israeli army bulldozer in a separate strike. Shortly after the assault, air raid sirens had been heard in northern Israel. Army Radio reported that every other antitank missile have been fired from Lebanon.

Hezbollah later introduced assaults on Israeli army gatherings and barracks in border spaces Birket Riche and Zareit, as clashes proceed to accentuate.

The attack was once probably the most severe incident involving civilians since an Israeli airstrike in south Lebanon on Nov. 5 killed a lady and 3 youngsters.

Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants and their allies had been (*7*) for the reason that Israel-Hamas warfare began 5 weeks in the past with a bloody incursion into southern Israel by Hezbollah best friend Hamas. While in large part contained, clashes have greater in depth as Israel conducts a floor offensive in Gaza towards Hamas.

Also Sunday, the United Nations peacekeeping power in south Lebanon, UNIFIL, mentioned one in every of its peacekeepers have been wounded by gunfire in a single day close to the Lebanese the town of al-Qawza. It was once now not in an instant transparent the place the taking pictures had come from or whether or not the peacekeepers had been centered or stuck in crossfire. UNIFIL mentioned it was once investigating.

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Associated Press writers Kareem Chehayeb in Beirut and Julia Frankel in Jerusalem contributed to this document.