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Alsharq Tribune-Ahmed Essam
A member of the Lebanese Hezbollah was killed Friday in an Israeli airstrike targeting a car in southern Lebanon.
The official Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) reported that an Israeli drone targeted, on Friday afternoon, a car with a guided missile in the area of Al-Tabbaleh in the town of Khirbet Selm, resulting in injuries.
A Lebanese army intelligence source said on condition of anonymity that the person killed in the Israeli strike on Khirbet Selm was a Hezbollah member named Hassan Marouf Rahhal.
Meanwhile, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said in a statement that its air force struck and killed a Hezbollah militant in southern Lebanon on Friday.
The IDF claimed that the target took part in Hezbollah's attempts to reestablish military capabilities in the Kherbet Selem area in southern Lebanon.
Also on Friday, the NNA reported that Israeli soldiers opened fire on a group of civilians harvesting olives in the village of Aitaroun in southern Lebanon.
The report added that an Israeli force also blew up an uninhabited building on the outskirts of the village of Yaroun.
The IDF said during an overnight operation, a Hezbollah military structure that posed a threat to them was dismantled in the Yaroun village near the border with Israel.
A U.S.- and French-brokered ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in effect since Nov. 27, 2024, ending months of cross-border clashes that erupted after the Gaza war began.
However, despite the truce, the Israeli army has occasionally launched strikes inside Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah "threats," while maintaining troops at five positions along the Lebanese border after the deadline for a full withdrawal expired on Feb. 18.
