Israel says ‘limited’ ground operations under way in Lebanon

Hezbollah said on Monday that it had launched rockets and drones at the Israeli border town of Kiryat Shmona and the northern Israeli city of Nahariya.
Israel’s Magen David Adom ambulance service said it had treated a man in Nahariya for blast injuries who was in a mild to moderate condition after a rocket landed between two buildings and sparked a large fire. Six other people were treated for smoke inhalation.
Overnight, Hezbollah said it had shelled an Israeli military position in the Lebanese border town of Aitaroun, and launched rockets at gatherings of Israeli troops in the Israeli border towns of Margaliot and Yuval.
Lebanese media also reported clashes between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli troops around the Lebanese border towns of Khiam, Aadaysit Marjayoun and Taybeh on Monday.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) meanwhile cited the Lebanese health ministry as saying that Israeli air strikes had killed four people, including two children, in the town of Qantara, just west of Taybeh.
Another three people were reportedly killed in two separate strikes in the village of Kfar Sir, just north of the Litani.
NNA said the first strike had hit a house, killing one person. When an ambulance from the Hezbollah-linked Islamic Health Society (IHS) arrived at the site, there was another strike, killing two paramedics, it added.
A third paramedic was killed in a strike on a civil defence centre belonging to the IHS in Yater, to the south-west, according to NNA.
Following an attack that killed 12 doctors, paramedics and nurses at an IHS-run primary healthcare centre on Friday night, the Lebanese health ministry accused Israel of violating international law by repeatedly targeting ambulance crews while they performed their duties.
The Israeli military said Hezbollah was using ambulances for military purposes – an allegation the health ministry denied.




