ALBAWABA- The Lebanese army confirmed that three civilians were killed, three soldiers were injured, and four UNIFIL peacekeepers sustained injuries in an Israeli airstrike targeting Sidon, southern Lebanon.
UNIFIL later announced that five of its personnel had been slightly injured while traveling along the Awali checkpoint road in Sidon when an Israeli drone struck nearby.
Members of the UNIFIL peacekeeping unit injured in the Israeli airstrike on a car in Sidon are of Malaysian nationality.
In a statement, UNIFIL called for restraint, urging all parties to avoid actions that endanger peacekeepers or civilians and stressed that disputes should be resolved at the negotiating table, not through violence.
The attack, which reportedly targeted a car near Sidon’s Al-Awali checkpoint, follows intense clashes between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.
Hezbollah claimed responsibility for rocket fire aimed at Israeli forces gathered in the Sa'ar settlement north of Nahariya, and in retaliation, targeted the Israeli settlement of Liman with missiles.
Additionally, Israeli forces conducted air raids on the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, while sirens sounded across Kiryat Shmona and its surroundings in Israel. Israel’s Channel 12 reported that three rockets launched from Lebanon toward Haifa were intercepted.
