Israeli strikes killed two people in southern Lebanon on the evening of Wednesday February 28, according to Lebanese state media, while Hamas fired rockets into northern Israel from Lebanon, amid escalation. cross-border clashes.
“Enemy planes attacked the towns of Siddiqin and Kafra, killing two residents of the town of Kafra and injuring 14 others
,” the Lebanese News Agency (NNA) said.
Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, has exchanged near-daily fire with the Israeli army since war broke out between Israel and the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamist movement in October, with Palestinian groups in Lebanon also claiming several attacks.
On Wednesday morning, Hamas' military wing, the al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement that it had launched two volleys of Grad rockets at two military sites in northern Israel.
These attacks from southern Lebanon come
“in response to the Zionist massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip and the assassination”
of a senior Hamas official on January 2 in Lebanon, the document adds.
Saleh Arouri was killed along with six other Hamas members in a drone attack blamed on Israel on the southern suburbs of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold.