Hezbollah member killed in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon

By Wassim Seif El Din

BEIRUT (AA) - One more Hezbollah member was killed in an Israeli airstrike on a home in southern Lebanon on Tuesday.

The Lebanese official news agency NNA said the Israeli airstrike took place in the southern Beit Lif town.

In a statement later, the Hezbollah group identified the fighter as Hasan Hussein Malik (Bader) which said he was killed "on the road to Jerusalem," in reference to the Hezbollah's fight in support of the Palestinian resistance facing the Israeli devastating onslaught in Gaza.

NNA also reported more Israeli raids on southern Lebanon including artillery shelling on the outskirts of the Khiyam town.

The new fatality brought the number of Hezbollah fighters killed in clashes with Israeli forces since Oct. 8, 2023 to 387, according to an Anadolu tally.

On Saturday, a rocket attack on the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the occupied Golan Heights killed 12 children and injured several others while they were on the football pitch.

Immediately after, Tel Aviv vowed swift retaliation against Hezbollah, blaming it for the attack that Hezbollah vehemently denied.

Fears have grown about a full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah amid an exchange of cross-border attacks between the two sides.

The escalation comes against the backdrop of a deadly Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed more than 39,300 people since last October, following an attack by the Palestinian resistance group Hamas.

*Writing by Ahmed Asmar