In a statement published Monday on its X account, the Lebanese Army Command provided an update on Sunday's incidents in southern Lebanon, after one soldier was killed and another taken prisoner by Israel.
“On Sunday, March 9, after contact was lost with a Lebanese army soldier, investigations revealed that elements of the Israeli forces opened fire on him while he was in civilian clothes in the vicinity of the locality of Kfarchouba, on Lebanon's southern border.” The press release also stated that the soldier, “wounded in the attack,” was then “abducted and taken into the occupied Palestinian territories.”
According to the Lebanese army, this new aggression “is part of a series of repeated and escalating attacks by the Israeli army against Lebanese citizens.”
Another soldier “was shot dead on the same day in Kfar Kila, in the Marjayoun region,” the statement added.
These acts “come as Israeli violations of Lebanon's sovereignty and security continue unabated”, the army command also denounced at the close of its statement.
Israeli soldiers fire at school
On Monday evening, a group of young people miraculously escaped being shot at by the Israeli army at the Ramiye school in the Bint Jbeil caza.
Israeli soldiers left their military post in Ramiyé, to the east of the village, and headed for the eastern entrance. There, they opened fire with their weapons in the direction of the school, which had been transformed by the inhabitants into a service center. Fortunately, no injuries were reported among the young people present.
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