1 killed, 11 wounded in Israeli airstrikes on Lebanon

BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Aug. 19 (Xinhua) — A member of Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed and 11 people wounded on Monday in Israeli airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources said.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli drone launched an airstrike on a car traveling on the Deir Qanoun En Nahr/Ras al-Ain road near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, killing a member of Hezbollah.
The Israeli military confirmed in a statement that its aircraft hit Hussein Ali Hussein, identified by the Israeli military as a militant, in Deir Qanoun.
Hussein was a key member of Hezbollah’s Rocket and Missile Unit in the area of Yarine in southern Lebanon, according to the Israeli military.
“In a separate incident, an Israeli warplane carried out an airstrike on a house in the center of the southeastern village of Taybeh, injuring five citizens, three of them critically. The injured were transported by ambulance to Tebnine Governmental Hospital in southern Lebanon,” said the Lebanese sources.
In the Baalbek area of eastern Lebanon, six people were injured in an initial report as a result of the Israeli raids that targeted three Hezbollah sites, added the sources.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said its fighters targeted buildings used by Israeli soldiers in the settlement of Shomera with rockets and “hit them directly.”
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’ attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. ■