4 Hezbollah fighters killed in Lebanese-Israeli border confrontations
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BEIRUT, Oct. 23 (Xinhua) -- Four Hezbollah fighters were killed and four others were injured on Monday in confrontations between Hezbollah and the Israeli army on the Lebanese-Israeli borders, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
NNA released several statements by Hezbollah mourning their four fighters, without providing more details.
Sources from the Lebanese Internal Security Forces told Xinhua that Hezbollah fighters were killed and injured by Israeli drones that carried out four raids, during which eight missiles were fired at dawn and noon on Monday in the town of Wadi Khansa, Kfarhamam village and the Bastra Farm in southeast Lebanon.
The sources added that the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) communicated with Israel to stop bombardment and allow the Lebanese Red Cross to reach the victims and transport them to the Marjeyoun Governmental Hospital.
The outskirts of Kfarchouba, Rashaya al-Fakhar villages, and Jabal Sadana area in southeast Lebanon, were subjected to 155-mm Israeli artillery shelling, which caused material damage, according to the sources.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah claimed that it had attacked the Misgav Am, an Israeli settlement in northern Israel, and the Al-Abad site on the border in southeast Lebanon with guided missiles and artillery shells, causing casualties, which the Shiite military group did not specify.
The border tensions have displaced more than 19,000 people in Lebanon, and the numbers are expected to rise if there is an escalation in violence, Elnashra news quoted a spokesperson at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) as saying on Monday.
The majority of the displaced, according to IOM, joined their family members who reside in areas other than southern Lebanon. In contrast, others took refuge in three schools that were turned into shelter centers in Lebanon's southern city of Tyre.
The escalation on the Lebanese-Israeli border began when Hezbollah fired multiple rockets on Oct. 8 toward Israeli military sites in support of a Hamas surprise attack against Israel. In response, the Israeli forces fired heavy artillery on southeastern Lebanon on the same day. Enditem
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