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Lebanese group confirms killing of its commander, blames Israel

We have more details about a previously reported drone attack against a member of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya.

The Lebanese group confirmed the killing of one of its commanders, Mohammad Hamed Jabara, blaming the attack on Israel, according to a statement cited by Lebanon’s National News Agency.

Jabara was killed when his car was hit in the town of Ghazze in Lebanon’s western Bekaa district, it added.

Hezbollah says fighter killed in southern Lebanon after drone strike reported

The armed Lebanese group has confirmed one of its operatives, a fighter named Hassan Ali Muhanna from southern Lebanon and born in 1984, has been killed.

Hezbollah does not detail the location or manner of its fighters’ deaths, but the announcement comes hours after a drone strike on a vehicle took place in southern Lebanon.

It was the second Israeli drone strike on a car today with the first killing Mohammad Hamed Jabara, a commander of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, an armed group allied with Hamas and Hezbollah.


Hezbollah targets Israeli intelligence gathering equipment

Hezbollah launched two attacks on Israeli positions so far after multiple rounds of Israeli bombing of southern Lebanon.

The armed Lebanese group said it targeted “new spy equipment installed on a crane at the Hadab Yarin” as border fighting with Israel continues.

The group added it hit espionage equipment installed at a new military centre in the Metulla settlement using a guided missile, achieving a direct hit and destroying it.


Israeli soldier succumbs to wounds sustained in Hezbollah attack

The Israeli military confirmed that Efraim Ben Amram, who was seriously wounded in a Hezbollah drone attack on a military base last month, has died.

The 25-year-old soldier was identified as a reservist sergeant first class in the 188th Armoured Brigade’s 53rd Battalion.

He was wounded on June 30 along with a number of other Israeli troops when an explosive-laden drone targeted the army base in the western part of the occupied Golan Heights.


At least four killed in Israeli attack on southern Lebanon

At least four people have been killed and dozens wounded in an Israeli raid on a house in the vicinity of the town of Safad al-Batikh in southern Lebanon, the civil defence has said.