Beirut: An Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah member and wounded another person, security sources said, in an apparent targeting of a car near the city of Nabatieh.
A source from the Lebanese Civil Defence told Xinhua that an Israeli drone struck a car with a guided missile on the university road between Kfar Remen and Nabatieh. Rescue teams recovered one body and a wounded person from the vehicle and transported them to a hospital, the source added.
A Lebanese security source confirmed to Xinhua that the person killed was a Hezbollah member named Adnan Harb from the town of Hallousiyah in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.
Separately, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of strikes overnight on the mountainous area along the Lebanon-Syria border near Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, as well as four airstrikes on prefabricated homes in the village of Tayr Harfa in western southern Lebanon, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA).
The strikes occur despite a ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel, brokered by the United States and France, which took effect on Nov. 27, 2024, halting over a year of hostilities triggered by the war in Gaza.
The Israeli military has stated its occasional strikes in Lebanon are aimed at eliminating Hezbollah “threats.”
