Another Hezbollah fighter killed in cross-border clashes with Israel

By Wassim Seif El Din

BEIRUT (AA) – Another Hezbollah fighter was killed in cross-border clashes with Israeli army forces in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese group said on Wednesday.

The group identified the slain fighter as Mohammad Hasan Taha, saying he was killed "on the road to Jerusalem," in reference to the Hezbollah fight in support of the Palestinian resistance facing a brutal Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip.

Early in the day, the Lebanese Health Ministry said that one person was injured in an Israeli drone strike on a truck in the town of Rasm el-Hadath near Baalbeck city.

Since October 8, 2023, Hezbollah has been engaged in daily exchanges of fire with the Israeli army across the Lebanese-Israeli border, resulting in hundreds of casualties, mostly on the Lebanese side.

At least 432 Hezbollah fighters have been killed since the outbreak of clashes with the Israeli army on Oct. 8, 2023, according to an Anadolu tally.

The escalation comes against the backdrop of the war in Gaza, where Israel has killed more than 40,500 Palestinians, mostly women and children, since last Oct. 7 following a Hamas attack. The military campaign has reduced much of the territory to rubble and left most of the people homeless, hungry and prone to disease.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar