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This was the second time within 48 hours that the same area was targeted by alleged Israeli airstrikes.

The military reported that the strikes were carried out to assist IDF ground troops operating against terrorist operatives and infrastructure in the area.

An IDF statement Saturday night confirmed that the IDF and Shin Bet had conducted strikes in the area, saying that they had hit Islamic Jihad operatives and terrorist infrastructure.

Salami belonged to Hezbollah's Nasser unit and commanded a number of terrorist attacks against IDF troops, along with civilian and military targets in Israel's north.

Sirens sounded in Arab el Aramsha, Hanita, Har Dov, and the northern city of Kiryat Shmona on Saturday afternoon in another day of Hezbollah rocket fire threatening Israel's North.

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Officials told the Times that Israel also caused a blast in a chemical factory near Iran's capital on Wednesday.

The airstrikes came as Yemen's Houthi rebels have stepped up attacks on vessels transiting the Red Sea, including a hit that sparked a fire on a fuel tanker on Friday.

Four US personnel suffered traumatic brain injuries after Iraq's Ain al-Asad air base was hit by multiple ballistic missiles and rockets fired by Iranian-backed terrorists from inside Iraq.

Turkey has conducted military incursions and bombing campaigns in Syria against the Kurdish YPG, which it regards as a wing of the Kurdistan Workers Party, or PKK.