An Israeli airstrike on Monday seriously injured a local Hezbollah official in a car in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese security source told AFP.
Since war broke out between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip on October 7, Israeli forces and the Lebanese movement Hezbollah, an ally of Hamas, have engaged in near-daily gunfire.
In recent days, a series of Israeli airstrikes have injured Lebanese and Palestinian militia figures in southern Lebanon.
The official said the Israeli airstrikes “targeted local Hezbollah personnel in the town of Bint Jubeir,” who were “severely injured.”
Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that “enemy drones targeted a car near a hospital” in Bint Jubeir, near the southern border with Israel.
An AFP reporter on the ground saw the targeted car badly damaged, including a hole in the roof.
“The aircraft collided with a vehicle carrying Hezbollah terrorists in the Maroun el-Ras area on the edge of Bint Jubail,” the Israeli military said in a statement to X (formerly Twitter).
This occurred during a series of attacks by Israel on Hezbollah targets, the newspaper said.
Further west in Bint Jubail, two people were seriously injured in an Israeli attack on a house in Tayre Halfa, NNA said.
The Israeli military said it had attacked “military installations and installations” there and in Maroun el-Ras.
Hezbollah later announced that two of its fighters were killed “on the way to Jerusalem,” without providing further details. The term has been used by the group since the beginning of hostilities to refer to militants killed by Israeli artillery fire.
Senior Hamas leader Bassel Saleh survived an Israeli car attack in the Lebanese border town of Jadra on Saturday, security officials said, adding that two others were killed.
On Thursday, an Israeli military drone strike seriously injured a Hezbollah commander in the southern Israeli city of Nabatiyeh, after which the group fired a volley of rockets into northern Israel.
Cross-border fires since the start of the Israel-Hamas war have killed at least 238 people in Lebanon, mostly Hezbollah fighters but also about 30 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
According to the Israeli army, nine soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
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