Lebanon: Three dead, including two Hezbollah fighters, in Israeli strikes

Lebanon’s health ministry said today that three people were killed in Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon, with a source close to Hezbollah saying two of the victims were fighters from the Lebanese pro-Iranian movement. Almost daily exchanges of fire have taken place between Hezbollah and the Israeli army since the start of the war in Gaza in October. The violence worsened with the assassination by Israel on July 30 of the top military commander of the Lebanese group Fouad Shukr and the head of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, Ismail Haniya in Tehran. “The strike by the Israeli enemy that targeted the city of Taibeh today left two people dead,” the ministry said in a statement. It added that a third person succumbed to his injuries today after being the victim of an Israeli raid targeting the southern town of Beit Leaf “several days ago”. A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the two victims in the city of Taibeh, which borders Israel, were […]
Source: News Beast

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