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The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a
final toll of the strike would be announced after DNA tests were
conducted to determine the identity of the victims.
The Israeli military said the airstrike targeted a weapons depot
used by Hezbollah militants.
The Israeli strike came after ceasefire talks between
Palestinian Islamist group Hamas and Israel in Doha paused on
Friday with negotiators due to meet again next week.
Hezbollah later said in a statement that it had struck the
Ayelet Hashahar Kibbutz in northern Israel in retaliation for
the Nabatieh strike.
Two soldiers were wounded in a rocket attack from Lebanon, the
Israeli military said, adding that a total of 55 rockets had
been fired in latest strikes from Lebanon.
Also on Saturday, an Israeli drone targeted a motorcycle in the
Qadmous area east of Tyre in south Lebanon, NNA reported, adding
that one person was injured. A security source said one person
was killed in the motorcycle attack.
Tensions have soared in the region in recent weeks, after a
rocket strike blamed on Hezbollah killed 12 children and teens
in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Israel responded with the
killing of a top Hezbollah commander in the suburbs of Beirut.
Hezbollah has vowed to retaliate against Israel, as has Iran for
the killing in Tehran of the political chief of the Palestinian
Hamas group, Ismail Haniyeh.
(Reporting by Laila Bassam, Riham Alkousaa, Muhammad Al Gebaly
and Jana Choukeir; Additional reporting by Maayan Lubell in
Jerusalem; Editing by Sandra Maler and Susan Fenton)
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