Lebanon: One dead in strike blamed on Israel against car

The tension is rising. A drone strike on a car in southern Lebanon blamed on Israel killed one person on Sunday, local media reported, while Hezbollah for its part announced that one of its fighters had been killed by Israeli fire.

Since the Palestinian Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, there have been daily exchanges of fire along the Israeli-Lebanese border between the Israeli army and the Lebanese Hezbollah, which backs its ally Hamas, which Israel has vowed to “destroy” in Gaza. “One person was killed and others were moderately to mildly injured as a result of the vehicle strike in Kafra,” the official Lebanese news agency (ANI) reported.

According to media reports, an “Israeli drone” struck a four-wheel drive vehicle near an army checkpoint in Kafra, about ten kilometers from the border between Israel and Lebanon, where tensions in the regional context of the war in the Gaza Strip are increasing. Strip. The impact destroyed a car and set another vehicle nearby on fire, ANI reported.

Later on Sunday, Lebanon’s Hezbollah announced that one of its fighters had been killed “on the road to Jerusalem,” an expression used by the pro-Iranian movement to refer to its members killed by Israeli fire. A Lebanese security source assured that no Lebanese soldiers were injured or killed as a result of this strike.

“Two Series of Strikes”

Israel attacked several towns in southern Lebanon on Sunday, including five destroyed houses in the border village of Markaba, without causing any casualties, according to ANI. Hezbollah, for its part, said it struck Israeli positions. The Israeli army later confirmed that it had bombed Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. “Army warplanes today (Sunday) carried out two strikes on terrorist infrastructure, a military building, a launch post and an observation post belonging to the terrorist organization Hezbollah in Markab in Lebanon,” she said.

Army tanks and aircraft “also struck targets in a number of locations in southern Lebanon, including Hezbollah’s operational command center and military complex,” it added.

Cross-border violence in Lebanon has killed more than 195 people since the war between Israel and Hamas began, according to AFP, including at least 144 fighters from Hezbollah, a movement firmly established in the country’s south. According to the Israeli army, 15 people were killed on the Israeli side, including nine soldiers and six civilians. In recent weeks, Israel has been accused of carrying out several strikes against Iranian and allied figures in Syria and Lebanon who support Hamas, heightening fears of a widening conflict.