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SvennoJ on 17 May 2024
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Air raid hits vehicle in southern Lebanon

Another suspected Israeli air raid has made an apparent assassination attempt in southern Lebanon, hitting a vehicle.



Israel assassinates Hamas official in Lebanon

The Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon reported earlier killed Sharhabil al-Sayed, a Hamas operative in charge of the group’s operations in Lebanon’s eastern Bekaa Valley.

Lebanon’s civil defence agency reported “one martyr and two wounded due to an Israeli air strike” on a vehicle in Majdal Anjar, a town close to the Syrian border 60km (37 miles) from Lebanon’s border with Israel.

News agencies cited unnamed sources as saying al-Sayed was the main target. This comes hours after other Israeli attacks killed a Hezbollah fighter and two children, according to the Lebanese armed group and official media.

Israeli military and Hezbollah claim attacks in border fighting

The Israeli military has released aerial footage of what it says is an air strike in southern Lebanon’s Deir Seryan, which it claims was used to launch a barrage of rockets at the occupied Golan Heights.

It also said a building and infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in two other areas were struck.

Hezbollah claimed 11 attacks on Israeli positions so far, saying the latest hit military sites in Kfarchouba and the occupied Shebaa Farms.

The armed Lebanese group also released multiple videos of some of its latest attacks, saying one shows an anti-tank guided missile hitting “spy equipment” at a military site and another shows a drone assault on a military headquarters in northern Israel.


Israeli military confirms assassinating Hamas commander in Lebanon

Israel’s army released aerial footage of its air strike targeting a vehicle in southern Lebanon that killed Hamas member Sharhabil al-Sayed near the Syrian border.

The military identified al-Sayed as a top Al-Jamaa al-Islamiyya operative in Lebanon who cooperated with Hamas. The Palestinian group said he was a Hamas commander.

“[He] led and promoted many attacks and acts of terrorism from Lebanese territory against Israel in the eastern sector in recent times”, the Israeli army said.

The strike was aimed at thwarting future attacks on northern Israel, it added.

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