In Israeli strikes today in southern and eastern Lebanon, at least - about five people, including Lebanese and Palestinian fighters, as well as Syrian civilians, reported Reuters, quoted by BTA, citing sources from the security services.
Israel and the Lebanese Islamist group "Hezbollah" have exchanged fire along Lebanon's southern border for more than seven months, paralleling the ongoing war in the Gaza Strip. Other Lebanese factions, as well as Palestinian groups, have also fired rockets at Israel from Lebanese territory, Reuters notes.
Today, a series of Israeli strikes on a coastal town north of the usual conflict zone also killed a Hezbollah member and two Syrian civilians, the sources said.
In a separate Israeli strike on a settlement along Lebanon's border with Syria, Sharhabil al-Sayed, a member of the Palestinian armed group Hamas, who was in charge of the group's operations in the eastern Bekaa Valley in Lebanon, was killed. A Palestinian member of "Hamas" was also killed in the strike, the sources claim.
Meanwhile, one person was killed and eight wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Jenin refugee camp. in the occupied West Bank last night, the Palestinian Ministry of Health and the Israeli army said, quoted by Reuters and BTA.
The ministry indicated that the condition of the eight injured was stable, and added that they were admitted to a hospital, where they were receiving medical assistance. Their identities are currently unknown.
The Israeli army said the strike was carried out by its fighter jet. Violence in the West Bank began to rise long before the current war in the other Palestinian enclave, Gaza, began, but such strikes by Israel have been rare, Reuters noted.
According to residents of the refugee camp, the target of the airstrike was a house.
The West Bank is among the territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Middle East war. The Palestinians want this area to become the core around which an independent Palestinian state can emerge.