The Israeli Defense Forces announced this Wednesday February 14 that they had launched a series of raids on Lebanon, killing four civilians according to a Lebanese security source. Since October 7, the south of the country has been the scene of exchanges of artillery fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.
Fears of an escalation of the conflict are intensifying. The Israeli army announced this Wednesday, February 14, that combat planes launched “a series of raids on Lebanon” neighbor, killing at least four civilians and injuring nine, announced a Lebanese security source. According to the same source, a woman, her son and her son-in-law died in a strike on the village of Sawaneh, while a fourth civilian was killed in the village of Adchit.
The attacks, which targeted several localities within a radius of 10 to 25 kilometers from the Israeli-Lebanese border, also caused significant material damage according to images circulating on social networks. For its part, the IDF has not provided further details at this stage on these raids, which come after a rocket fired from Lebanon left several people injured the same day in northern Israel, according to Israeli medical sources. . For the moment, this rocket attack has not been claimed.
“When the aggression in Gaza stops and there is a ceasefire, the shooting will also stop in the south” of Lebanon, declared the day before Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the pro-Iranian Lebanese Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas. Before adding: “If they widen the confrontation, we will too.”
Since the Hamas attack on October 7, the two border countries have come under daily fire. The international community has feared for several months that the conflict between Hezbollah and the Israeli army would spill over. In January, an Israeli raid on a village south of Beirut hit a car and killed two civilians. The strike targeted Hamas number 2, according to the Israeli army.
Update : at 3:29 p.m. with the announcement of the four civilians killed.