Beirut –
Israel launched air strikes on Lebanon. The attack is said to have injured an official Hizbullah local in his car in southern Lebanon.
Reported by AFP, Tuesday (13/2/2024), Israeli troops and the Lebanese Hezbollah movement, an ally of Hamas, have exchanged fire almost every day since the war broke out on October 7 between Israel and the Palestinian militant group in the Gaza Strip.
In recent days, a series of Israeli attacks have injured officials of Lebanese and Palestinian armed groups in southern Lebanon.
A Lebanese security source said the Israeli strike “targeted a local Hezbollah official in the town of Bint Jbeil” and the official was “seriously injured”.
Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) said an enemy drone targeted a car near a hospital in Bint Jbeil, near the country’s southern border with Israel.
An AFP journalist on the ground saw the target car badly damaged with a hole in its roof.
The Israeli military said in a statement on X, formerly Twitter, that “a plane hit a vehicle identified as a Hezbollah terrorist in the Maroun El Ras area” on the edge of Bint Jbeil.
This occurred during a series of Israeli attacks on Hezbollah targets, he said.
NNA also reported that in Tayr Harfa, further west of Bint Jbeil, two people were seriously injured in an Israeli attack on a house.
The Israeli military said it attacked military structures and military sites in Tayr Harfa and Maroun El Ras.
Without giving further details, Hezbollah later announced the death of two of its fighters en route to Jerusalem – a phrase the group uses to refer to militants killed by Israeli fire since hostilities began.
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2024-02-12 20:37:58
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