Middle East crisis: Israeli troops claim five Palestinian militants killed at mosque in West Bank operation – as it happened
by Tom Ambrose (now); Lili Bayer and Jonathan Yerusha from World news | The Guardian on (#6QAT1)
Thursday's attack follows major raids across the region which saw at least 10 Palestinians killed as part of an operation the military said could last days
Zainab Barakat woke early on Sunday morning to the sound of bombs. During more than 10 months of fighting between Hezbollah and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) near her village of Zebqine, she had grown used to hearing the explosions that have devastated other nearby villages.
So far, Zebqine, almost 7km from the Lebanese-Israeli border, had been spared the worst of the shelling. But this time, she says, it was right on top of us. It smashed the windows; the whole place shook. The children were panicking."
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