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09/08/2024September 8, 2024
3 killed near West Bank border crossing: Israeli medics
Israel’s emergency service has said three people had been shot and killed near the Allenby Bridge Crossing between the and on Sunday morning.
“We found three men lying unconscious, with no pulse and not breathing, with gunshot wounds. Together with the IDF [Israel Defense Forces] medical team, we performed resuscitation efforts, but unfortunately, we had to declare their deaths on scene,” said a statement from the Magen David Adom emergency service.
Israeli police said separately that an attacker had been “neutralized” and that there had been a “shooting attack.”
The Israeli military said a gunman approached the crossing from the Jordanian side in a truck and opened fire at Israeli security forces, who killed the assailant in a gunfight. It said the three people killed were Israeli civilians.
The military later clarified that the three men were “working as security guards” and were not members of the army or police force.
The border crossing is used by Palestinians, Israelis and international tourists.
The occupied West Bank has seen a rise in violence since the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas on Israel, which .
The incidents include Israeli raids into Palestinian residential areas, Palestinian attacks on Israelis and attacks by Jewish settlers targeting Palestinians.
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09/08/2024September 8, 2024
Hezbollah launches retaliatory rocket attack on Israeli town
The Lebanese militia said Sunday it had launched rockets at the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona early in the day, partly in response to an a day earlier.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said three emergency responders were killed and two others wounded, one of them critically, in the strike on Saturday, which it has blamed on Israel.
For its part, the Israeli military said it had “eliminated terrorists” from the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement in Froun.
It also said on Sunday that it had carried out a number of airstrikes on “Hezbollah military structures” after intercepting projectiles launched from Lebanon.
The military said in a statement that the Israeli air force targeted sites “in the areas of Aitaroun, Maroun El Ras, and Yaroun in southern Lebanon.”
The situation at the Lebanese-Israeli border with tens of thousands displaced on both sides amid cross-border attacks between and Israel.
tj/nm (Reuters, AFP)
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