Beirut: Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah said Friday that Israeli fire killed seven of its fighters, without specifying where or when they died as border tensions persist during the Israel-Hamas war.
The group named the seven fighters in a statement stating they were “martyred on the road to Jerusalem,” the phrase Hezbollah uses to mourn members — now numbering 68 — killed since border clashes with Israel began last month.
The border area between the two countries has seen daily exchanges of fire, in particular between Iran-backed group Hezbollah and Israel, since the start of the Israel-Hamas war triggered by the October 7 attacks on Israel by Gaza-based Hamas.
Earlier Friday, Israel’s military said it struck an organization in Syria, which it did not name, saying the group was behind a drone crash into a school in southern Israel a day earlier.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the Israeli strike targeted sites belonging to Hezbollah — which has fought alongside Damascus since at least 2013.
On Wednesday, Israeli air strikes killed three pro-Iran fighters as they hit sites belonging to Hezbollah near the Syrian capital Damascus, according to the Observatory with a network of sources inside Syria.
Israel has struck Syria several times in the past month.
At least 90 people have been killed on the Lebanese side in cross-border skirmishes, according to an AFP tally, most of them Hezbollah combattants.
Six soldiers and two civilians have been killed on the Israeli side.
Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Israeli fire kills 7 fighters
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah says Israeli fire kills 7 fighters
- The border area between the two countries has seen daily exchanges of fire between Iran-backed group Hezbollah and Israel
Israeli forces arrest jewel thieves posing as soldiers in West Bank
- The suspects had arrived in the Palestinian town “in a vehicle resembling a security vehicle”
- Abu Alan said the individuals were arrested about an hour later and that the stolen items were recovered
JERUSALEM: Israeli forces arrested two Israelis and a Palestinian on Tuesday after they allegedly posed as soldiers to rob a jewelry shop in the occupied West Bank, the military and police said.
Officers arrested the suspects “while they were allegedly fleeing the scene of an armed robbery carried out at a jewelry store in the town of Dahariya” in the territory’s south, Israeli police said in a statement.
It added that the suspects had arrived in the Palestinian town “in a vehicle resembling a security vehicle, including emergency lights, while wearing (Israeli military)-style uniforms, protective vests, helmets, and carrying firearms.”
Dahariya mayor Akram Abu Alan told AFP that at around 10:30 am (0830 GMT), a group of individuals “got out of a vehicle wearing Israeli army uniforms and carrying weapons.”
“Posing as soldiers, they stormed a gold shop, stole large quantities of gold, threatened civilians, and damaged parts of the shop,” he said.
Abu Alan said the individuals were arrested about an hour later and that the stolen items were recovered.
The suspects were picked up in a joint operation involving Israeli police, border police and military forces after being located in the town of Samu’a, near the West Bank’s southern border with Israel, the police said.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since 1967.
The police said the three suspects were Bedouins from southern Israel, while the military in a separate statement said they were “a Palestinian and two Israeli civilians.”
Bedouins are a semi-nomadic Arab people who, among other places, live in Israel and the West Bank, and therefore are sometimes Palestinian and sometimes Israeli citizens.
