Four fighters of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, including a local official, were killed in southern Lebanon, Hezbollah said early this morning. The total number of dead in its ranks has risen to 129during the conflicts with Israel.
According to APE – MPE, a source close to the movement told AFP that the four fighters were killed last night in the border area of Nakura. Among them is an official of the Hezbollah party in the region.
According to Lebanon's ANI agency, the Israeli Air Force “conducted raids in the center of Nakura that destroyed a house and caused material damage to neighboring houses.”
Since October 8, one day after the start of the war between Israel and the Palestinian organization Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Hezbollah fires daily rockets at Israel from southern Lebanon to support its ally Hamas. The cross-border clashes have left 175 people dead, of which 129 were Hezbollah fighters and more than 20 civilians including the three journalists.
In northern Israel, nine soldiers and five civilians have been killed, according to authorities. Hezbollah mainly targets Israeli military positions near the border. But its head Hasan Nasrallah warned on Wednesday night (03/01) the Israel against starting a war with Lebanon, assuring that his movement will fight “to the end”.
His speech came a day after a strike attributed to Israel killed Hamas's second-in-command, Saleh al-Aruri, and six other members of the Palestinian movement. The strike targeted a Hamas office in a southern suburb of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. This is the first time since the start of the war in Gaza on October 7 that the Lebanese capital has been targeted.
Many of its executives Hamas they have settled in Lebanon, under the protection of Hezbollah. For its part, Israel has vowed to “exterminate” Hamas after the unprecedented attack it launched on October 7 that killed an estimated 1,140 people in Israel.
Source: News Beast
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