Lebanon: Six militants killed in Israeli raids, according to Hezbollah and allied movement

Lebanese Hezbollah and its ally the Amal movement announced the deaths of six of their members on Friday in Israeli bombings in southern Lebanon, near the border with Israel.

Since the deadly Hamas attack on Israel on October 7, there have been daily exchanges of fire on the Israeli-Lebanese border between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, which claims to support the Palestinian Islamist movement in its war against Israel in the Gaza Strip.

Pro-Iranian Hezbollah is targeting Israeli military positions and facilities near the border. Israel responds by bombing Lebanese territory, mainly in the south, in particular by carrying out targeted attacks against representatives of Hezbollah and Hamas.

Nine new attacks on IDF positions in the north

On Friday, Hezbollah announced the death of three of its fighters in Israeli bombings, without elaborating. At the same time, he took responsibility for nine new attacks on Israeli army positions in the north.

The Amal Movement, led by Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, said three of its members were killed.

According to the Lebanese National News Agency (ANI), three people were killed in an Israeli strike on the Amal center in Jdeidet Marjayoun, in southern Lebanon, about ten kilometers from the border, and two more in a similar strike on the border town of Aita al-Shab .

IDF says it bombed ‘military complex’

In a statement, the Israeli army said it had bombed an “Amal movement military compound” containing several of its fighters “in the Marjayoun area.”

“Throughout the war, the Amal movement acted against the State of Israel and planned to carry out an additional attack on Israeli territory in the last days,” the statement said.

The army, which announced it had carried out strikes in several regions of southern Lebanon, also said it had “identified a terrorist carrying out surveillance activities using a drone to carry out launches towards northern Israel”, adding that it had “sent the aircraft that hit” the fighter jet without specifying the exact location.

For his part, Avichai Adrai, a spokesman for the Israeli army, said on Platform X that the Air Force bombed Hezbollah infrastructure, including “a military building in Aita al-Shaab.”

In a televised address on Friday, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said his movement had not yet used its “main” weapon in battle. He repeated that Hezbollah would stop its attacks when the war “ends in the Gaza Strip.”

AFP estimates that at least 356 people have been killed in firefights in Lebanon over nearly six months, including 235 Hezbollah fighters, 15 Amal fighters, and at least 68 civilians. Ten soldiers and eight civilians were killed in northern Israel, which borders southern Lebanon, the army said.