The Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah said today it had targeted a military base in northern Israel "for the second time" in response to "recent killings and attacks on civilians" in Lebanon and Syria.
In a statement, Hezbollah said it targeted the Meron base "with a large number of missiles."
This base had also been targeted by the Shiite movement on January 6, in retaliation for the blow attributed to Israel that killed the second in command of Hamas in Beirut.
In recent weeks Israel has been repeatedly accused of a series of strikes against Iranian officials and its allies who support Palestinian Hamas in Syria and Lebanon, raising concerns about the war spreading to Gaza.
On Saturday, 13 people, including five advisers to Iran's Revolutionary Guards, were killed in Damascus in an airstrike attributed to Israel, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Tehran has vowed to respond to this blow.
On January 8, Hezbollah announced the death of Wissam Tawil, who was considered the "commander of the al-Radwan force," the Islamist movement's elite unit, another blow attributed to Israel.
Today the number of people killed by Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon since the start of the war has exceeded 200, including 147 Hezbollah fighters, according to an AFP tally. In Israel the authorities have announced the death of nine soldiers and six civilians.
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