Four civilians killed in strike on Tyre's Shamaa
A Syrian family of four were killed Thursday in an Israeli strike on their house in the southern village of Shamaa in the Tyre district.
A mother and her three children were killed as Israeli warplanes targeted their house, local media reports said. Several others were injured in the strike.
Warplanes had earlier Thursday raided the southern border town of kfarkila, with no casualties reported.
The strike was carried out while Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah was addressing mourners at the funeral of a commander from the group who was killed by an Israeli airstrike this week in Beirut.
An unusual relative calm had prevailed in the past two days on the Lebanon-Israel border. On Wednesday and Thursday, Hezbollah claimed no rocket launches into Israel.
Since the Gaza war began in October, Hezbollah and Israel have traded fire almost daily across the border.
Source: Naharnet
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