(25 Aug 2024)
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Northern Israel – 25 August 2024
1. Various exteriors of chicken farm damaged by rocket attack
2. Various of chickens around damaged section
3. Damaged section from inside barn
4. Various of chickens inside damaged coop
5. Various of destroyed roof in the chicken coop
6. Wide of debris outside farm
STORYLINE:
Israel and the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah traded heavy fire early Sunday but backed off from sparking a widely feared all-out war, as both sides signaled their most intense exchange in months was over.
The cross-border attacks came as high-level talks resumed in Egypt aimed at a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas in the war in Gaza that also would ease regional tensions.
Hezbollah claimed to hit an Israeli military intelligence site near Tel Aviv in a barrage of hundreds of rockets and drones, and Israel claimed its strikes had been preemptive to avert a larger attack.
Israel’s military said its intelligence base near Tel Aviv wasn’t hit.
Late Sunday, Israel’s military took the Associated Press to a chicken production compound near the border with Lebanon that sustained damage in Sunday’s attacks.
A poultry farm suffered damage to one of its walls and another had a section of the roof destroyed in northern Israel.
According to the army, several homes in the compound also sustained minor damage.
Israel and Hezbollah said they only aimed at military targets.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the military eliminated thousands of rockets that were aimed at northern Israel and shot down drones heading for the center of the country.
Israel’s military said one soldier with the navy was killed and two others were wounded either by an interceptor for incoming fire, or by shrapnel from one.
Two Hezbollah fighters and a militant from an allied group were killed, the groups said.
Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the attack, a response to Israel’s killing of a top militant commander in Beirut last month, had been delayed to give the Gaza cease-fire talks a chance, and so fellow Iran-backed groups could discuss with Iran whether to attack Israel all at once.
Israeli and U.S. military deployment also played a role.
“We will now reserve the right to respond at a later time” if the results of Sunday’s attack aren’t sufficient, Nasrallah said, adding that allied Houthi rebels in Yemen — and Iran itself — had yet to respond.
But he told the Lebanese people: “At this current stage, the country can take a breath and relax.”
Hezbollah began attacking Israel almost immediately after the start of the war in Gaza, which was triggered by Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack into southern Israel.
Israel and Hezbollah have exchanged fire almost daily, displacing tens of thousands of people on both sides of the border.
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