Lebanon security source says Israeli strike kills 2 civilians

AFP , Saturday 13 Jul 2024

A Lebanese security source said an Israeli air strike Saturday killed two civilians collecting water in south Lebanon, while Lebanese media said a drone strike in the area killed two men.

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Smoke from Israeli bombardment billows in Kfarkila in southern Lebanon on July 12, 2024. AFP

 

The security source, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media, said that "two civilians were filling up water from a roadside spring" in the Deir Mimas area when they were killed in an "Israeli air strike".

A source close to Hezbollah, also requesting anonymity, said one of the men was a member of the Lebanese resistance movement and the father of a fighter who had been killed, while the second man was a member of Hezbollah ally the Amal movement.

The pair were "civilians, not fighters", the source added.

Lebanon's National News Agency said an "enemy drone" killed two men on Saturday in the same area, identifying one of them as a local council member for the Amal movement in the nearby village of Kfar Kila.

It said they were collecting water from the spring "to take it for livestock in Kfar Kila".

The Amal movement released a statement saying one of its members, born in 1964, was killed.

​Hezbollah has traded almost daily fire with Israeli forces to express solidarity with Palestinians and push Israel to halt its war on Gaza.

In Lebanon, the cross-border violence since October has killed more than 500 people, mostly fighters but also including more than 90 civilians, according to an AFP tally.

On the Israeli side, at least 29 people have been killed, the majority of them soldiers, according to the authorities.

The violence, largely restricted to the border area, has raised fears of all-out conflict between the foes, which last went to war in the summer of 2006.

*This story was edited by Ahram Online

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