Three dead in Israeli strikes on South Lebanon: Report

AFP , Saturday 27 Apr 2024

Three people were killed Saturday in Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon, including two members of Hezbollah, the movement and official media said.

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FILE PHOTO: Shia Muslim clerics recite a prayer over the coffins of two women from the same family, killed on April 23 in a reported Israeli strike that destroyed their house in the southern Lebanese village of Hanin, during their funeral on April 25, 2024. AFP

 

The border between Lebanon and Israel has seen near-daily exchanges of fire since the Israeli war on Gaza began nearly seven months ago.

In two separate statements, Hezbollah mourned the deaths of two fighters from the villages of Kafr Kila and Khiam.

It said they had been "martyred on the road to Jerusalem", by Israeli fire.

Lebanon's official National News Agency said "Israeli occupation aircraft carried out two raids today at dawn on the towns of Kafr Shuba and Shebaa", leading to the death of "citizen Qasim Asaad in the town of Kafr Shuba".

Multiple villages in southern Lebanon had been hit by Israeli strikes in recent hours, leaving damage to homes and property, NNA said.

Hezbollah said separately that it targeted "newly established positions of enemy soldiers" west of Shumira in northern Israel, the day after it targeted two military sites with dozens of Katyusha rockets in response to an Israeli strike on Friday.

The Lebanese militant group Jamaa Islamiya on Friday said that two of its senior commanders were killed in an Israeli strike in eastern Lebanon.

The Israeli army announced on Friday that its air force aircraft struck and assassinated Mosab Khalaf in the area of Meidun in Lebanon.

Khalaf had "advanced a large number of terror attacks against Israel", the occupation army said.

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