Another Hezbollah fighter killed in border clashes with Israel

By Wassim Saifeddin

BEIRUT (AA) - Another Hezbollah fighter was killed in clashes with Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Thursday, the group said.

Hezbollah identified the slain fighter as Hussein Hourani, 36, from the city of Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon, without providing details about the circumstances of his death.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

At least 330 Hezbollah fighters have since been killed in clashes with Israeli forces since last October, according to an Anadolu tally.

The border tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 36,600 people since a major attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year.

*Writing by Rania Abu Shamala in Istanbul