Jerusalem: The Israeli military reported on Tuesday that nine troops were hurt by an anti-tank missile fired by Lebanon’s Hezbollah organization as they were rescuing a civilian injured in a separate cross-border attack.
During the Gaza war, an anti-tank missile fired from Lebanon injured a civilian, leaving one of the troops in “serious condition,” according to the IDF.
The army had earlier announced in a statement that the missile had struck a Greek Orthodox church in Iqrit, which is a deserted Palestinian Christian community whose residents were driven out during the 1948 war and the establishment of Israel.
The army claimed that Hezbollah, an organization supported by Iran, was firing continuously at “civilian and religious sites” in Israel.
Hezbollah was “committing war crimes by indiscriminately attacking places of worship,” according to Israeli military spokesman Daniel Hagari.
The Saint George Church in the border village of Yarun was the target of “Israeli artillery shelling,” according to a November 20 report from Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA), which claimed “major damage.”
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