BEIRUT, Lebanon: At least five people, including four Hezbollah fighters, were killed in Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Monday, a source close to the group and state media said.
A source close to Hezbollah said that “at least four Hezbollah fighters were killed in Israeli airstrikes at two different locations in southern Lebanon”, identifying the locations as Naqura on the coast and Mais al-Jabal, a border village in the east.
A Hezbollah fighter was also killed in an Israeli strike in neighboring Syria on Monday, a separate source from the group told the media.
The movement said five of its fighters, including two from Naqura, were killed, without giving details of where or when they died.
NNA, the Lebanon’s official National News Agency, later reported “one martyr and one wounded” after an “enemy airstrike targeting a motorcycle” in the village of Mansouri near the coast.
No further details were provided.
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Meanwhile, the Israeli military said one soldier was “slightly injured” by a “launch that landed in the Biranit area”.
It later said it had “hit a Hezbollah launch facility” near Aita al-Shaab in southern Lebanon “from which the launches were identified”.
The military earlier said fighter jets struck a “Hezbollah cell” and a launch site in the Mais al-Jabal area, while the Israeli army “fired artillery to eliminate the threat” in the Naqura area.
Hezbollah said it had launched a heavy rocket attack on an Israeli army barracks in the north of the country “in retaliation” for the attack on Naqura, while announcing further attacks on Israeli positions.
The NNA reported Israeli strikes on Mais al-Jabal and Naqura, where it said Israel fired near Hezbollah-affiliated rescuers and injured a civilian.
The fighting has left at least 426 dead in Lebanon, including 82 civilians, according to media reports. Israel says 14 soldiers and 11 civilians were killed on its side of the border.
The violence may lead to an all-out conflict between Hezbollah and Israel, which also went to war in 2006.
