2024-02-10 11:51:40
Lebanese media reported, on Saturday, that a drone targeted a car and a motorcycle, in the Iqlim al-Kharroub area in Mount Lebanon, 60 kilometers from the border with Israel.
Al-Hurra channel correspondent quoted a security source as saying, “An Israeli drone targeted a car in the vicinity of Jadra, a town in Iqlim al-Kharroub in Mount Lebanon Governorate,” adding that “there were casualties.”
Al-Jadeed TV said that preliminary information indicated that “an Israeli raid targeted a car between Wadi al-Zeina and Wardaniya in Iqlim al-Kharroub.” A number of cars and motorcycles were also damaged as a result of the bombing, according to local media.
In turn, Al-Hurra’s correspondent said that “accurate and official information is conflicting up to now” regarding the identity of the person “targeted” as a result of the raid attributed to Israel.
While local media indicated that the target in this raid was a “Hezbollah leader,” Al-Hurra’s correspondent reported that the “target” was “a Palestinian leader, perhaps from the Hamas movement.”
The reporter stated, “The Israeli march fired a second missile that targeted a motorcycle carrying two people who came following the first strike to help, and they were killed along with a Syrian young man who happened to be passing by the targeted location.”
Also, the dispatcher said, “Hezbollah militants as well as the Lebanese army cordoned off the area and prevented citizens from approaching it.”
The Israeli army did not issue any comment regarding the bombing of a car inside Lebanese territory.
Last month, the Hamas leader, Saleh Al-Arouri, and six other people, including two leaders in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian movement, were assassinated in an air strike that targeted the movement’s office in the Musharrafieh area in the southern suburb of Beirut, a stronghold of the Lebanese Hezbollah.
The Lebanese authorities, Hezbollah and the movement accused Israel of carrying out the operation, which a US official confirmed to Agence France-Presse. On the other hand, Israel did not comment on that operation.
Since the outbreak of war in the Gaza Strip on October 7, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed a daily exchange of bombing between Hezbollah and Israel, which has raised international fears of an expansion of the scope of escalation and prompted Western officials to visit Beirut and urge calm.
Hezbollah announces targeting Israeli military sites and points “in support of Gaza.” The Israeli army responds with air and artillery bombardment, which it says targets the party’s “infrastructure” and the movements of fighters near the border.
Since the start of the escalation, 228 people have been killed in southern Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters and 27 civilians, including 3 journalists, according to a tally compiled by Agence France-Presse. In Israel, the army counted the deaths of 9 soldiers and 6 civilians.
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