BEIRUT: Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike on a car in the country’s south killed two people Tuesday, with a source close to Iran-backed Hezbollah saying a field commander was among the dead.
Israel and Hamas ally Hezbollah have exchanged near-daily fire following the Palestinian group’s October 7 attack on southern Israel that sparked the war in Gaza.
“The enemy drone strike that targeted a car on the Tyre-Al-Hush main road martyred two people,” the official National News Agency said, also reporting that ambulances had headed towards the site of the strike.
Health ministry in Gaza says war death toll at 34,356
A source close to Hezbollah told AFP that a field commander had been killed in the strike, without identifying who.
The group said in a statement early Wednesday that one of its fighters, Hussein Makki, was “martyred on the road to Jerusalem”, the phrase it uses to refer to members killed in Israeli fire.
According to several Lebanese news outlets, Makki was a Hezbollah field commander and was killed in an Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon on Tuesday night.
Israel says 14 soldiers and 10 civilians have been killed on its side of the border.
Israeli media predict offensive in Gaza’s Rafah soon
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides.
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