Marjayoun, South Lebanon, May 9, 2024 (Xinhua) Three Hezbollah members and a civilian were killed this morning (Thursday) in an Israeli attack targeting a car in southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese party and Lebanese military stores.
The military sources told Xinhua News Agency, “Israeli patrol found two surface-to-air missiles at a white Rapid car on the main road near the town of Baflih, in Tire district, in the western region of the border.
She continued, “The car was hit directly, causing it to burn completely and killing its three passengers and a civilian who happened to be at the scene.
After the attack, members of the Civil Defense worked to put out the fire in the car and remove the debris, and transported four bodies to a hospital in the city of Tiree, according to the stores.
Lebanon’s Civil Defense said in a statement that its members were working “at exactly 9:25 local time today to put out a fire that started inside a Rapid car that was targeted by an Israeli air strike on a main road Baflih-Tyre.”
He indicated that “the bodies of four dead persons were removed,” while other parties took them to the hospital.
Hezbollah mourned three of its members, saying in a statement that they had “risen as martyrs on the road to Jerusalem,” without further details.
On Wednesday, five people were killed, two of them from Hezbollah and three from the Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad movement, in Israeli bombing of several border towns in southern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah announced on Wednesday that it had launched a series of attacks with assault marches and dozens of missiles on Israeli settlements and military sites “in response to the Israeli enemy’s attacks on southern towns.”
Yesterday, a Lebanese military source confirmed that dozens of missiles and several drones were launched in continuous rounds towards northern Israel.
The border between Lebanon and Israel has seen an exchange of gunfire and explosions between Hezbollah and armed groups on the one hand and the Israeli army on the other since the start of the war between the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) and Israel. the Gaza Strip on October. 7th
The conflicts on the Lebanese side from the eighth of October last year until today have led to the killing of 457 people, including 288 members of Hezbollah, 24 from its ally, the Amal Movement, 38 from Hamas and Islamic Jihad, 5 from the Islamic Group in Lebanon, and 84 civilians, including three journalists, and 15 from the Defense Forces The civilian, a soldier from the Lebanese army, a member of the Internal Security Forces, and another from the Syrian Social Nationalist Party, according to party statements and security and medical reports.
2024-05-09 11:27:00
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