Key Takeaways
- The Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon killed a Hezbollah member and wounded another person.
- The airstrike occurred despite a ceasefire agreement between Hezbollah and Israel, brokered by the United States and France.
- Ongoing tensions and hostilities persist between Israel and Hezbollah, with occasional strikes in Lebanon aimed at eliminating Hezbollah ‘threats’.
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.
According to the Lebanese Civil Defence, an Israeli drone struck a car with a guided missile on the university road between Kfar Remen and Nabatieh. One body and a wounded person were recovered and transported to a hospital.
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.”
