The Israeli army announced this Wednesday that combat planes launched “a series of raids on Lebanon”, which killed four civilians, according to Lebanese authorities.
Such an air raid operation raises fears of an escalation between the two border countries after months of daily exchanges of fire in the context of the war in Gaza.
The army has not provided further details at this stage on these raids, but, according to a Lebanese source, it was the Nabatieh sector, in the south of the country, which was targeted as well as those of Adchit , Sawaneh and Chehabiyeh.
These strikes come after a rocket fired from Lebanon injured several people this Wednesday in northern Israel, according to Israeli medical sources.
Since the day after the bloody Hamas attack in Israel on October 7, which sparked the war in the Gaza Strip, the Lebanese Islamist movement Hezbollah has targeted Israeli military positions on the border in support of the Palestinian Islamist movement, its ally.
Israel, for its part, regularly bombs southern Lebanon and carries out targeted attacks against Hezbollah officials.
243 deaths on the Lebanese side in four months, 15 on Israeli territory
Violence between the Israeli army and Hezbollah has caused the displacement of tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said Tuesday that "when the aggression in Gaza stops and there is a ceasefire, the shooting will also stop in the south" of Lebanon.
“If they widen the confrontation, we will too,” said Hassan Nasrallah, in response to repeated threats from Israeli officials to start a war against Lebanon.
In more than four months, at least 243 people, including 175 Hezbollah fighters and 30 civilians, have been killed in southern Lebanon, according to an AFP count (Agence France presse).
On the Israeli side, 15 people were killed, including nine soldiers and six civilians, according to the army.