2024-02-26T16:37:07+00:00
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/ Hezbollah announced on Monday the killing of one of its members as a result of the Israeli bombing that targeted a car in the town of Al-Majadil, near the city of Tyre in southern Lebanon, while press reports indicated that the dead person was the official of the party’s eastern sector.
Hezbollah mourned Hassan Salami, who was born in 1947 and was killed in the Israeli raid on the town of Majdal in southern Lebanon.
Sky News Arabia reported, citing sources, that “Salami” is the official in charge of Hezbollah’s eastern sector.
Earlier on Monday, local media quoted the mayor of Al-Majdal as saying that “the enemy assassinated a prominent figure in a car on the town’s main road.”
The raid comes about two hours after an Israeli airstrike on a building belonging to a civilian institution in Hezbollah on the outskirts of the city of Baalbek, while the second targeted a “warehouse” of the party.
At least two Hezbollah members were killed in the attack in Baalbek, the party’s main stronghold in eastern Lebanon, two security sources said, in the first strikes in the area since the escalation began.
Since the day after the unprecedented attack launched by Hamas on Israel on October 7, the Lebanese border has witnessed an escalation between Hezbollah and Israel.
While Hezbollah announces targeting Israeli sites, spy devices and military gatherings in support of Gaza and “backing its resistance,” the Israeli army responds with air and artillery bombardment that it says targets the party’s “infrastructure” and the movements of fighters near the border.
The escalation over more than four months has forced tens of thousands of residents on both sides of the border to evacuate their homes.
In Lebanon, more than 89,000 people were displaced from their towns, especially those on the border, while the escalation resulted in the deaths of at least 280 people, including 193 Hezbollah fighters and 44 civilians, according to a tally compiled by AFP.
In Israel, the army counted the deaths of ten soldiers and nine civilians.