Approximately 10 individuals perished, among them two children, and five others sustained injuries due to an Israeli aerial bombardment on a residential structure in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon, according to the state news agency NNA on Saturday.
NNA confirmed that all casualties were Syrian nationals, and mentioned that a definitive count would be disclosed following DNA analysis to ascertain the identities of the deceased. The Israeli armed forces claimed the airstrike was aimed at a Hezbollah-operated arms cache. This attack occurred shortly after ceasefire discussions between Hamas and Israel in Doha were temporarily halted on Friday, with plans for the negotiators to reconvene the following week.
In response to the Nabatieh incident, Hezbollah declared that it had retaliated by attacking the Ayelet Hashahar Kibbutz in northern Israel, resulting in injuries to two Israeli soldiers. The Israeli military reported that a total of 55 rockets were launched in the recent attacks from Lebanon. Additionally, NNA reported that an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle in the Qadmous region east of Tyre in southern Lebanon, causing injury to one person, while a security source stated that one individual was killed in the motorcycle incident.
Recent weeks have seen escalated tensions in the area, sparked by a rocket assault attributed to Hezbollah that claimed the lives of 12 children and adolescents in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel retaliated by eliminating a prominent Hezbollah leader in the outskirts of Beirut. Both Hezbollah and Iran have pledged to respond to Israel, particularly in light of the assassination of the political head of the Palestinian Hamas group, Ismail Haniyeh, in Tehran.
