BEIRUT, LEBANON – A Hizbollah commander, two other fighters and seven civilians were killed in an Israeli strike in south Lebanon, a security source said Thursday, raising the death toll from a raid a day earlier.
The same Hizbollah commander had previously been targeted and wounded in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanon town of Nabatiyeh a week earlier, the security source said, requesting anonymity as they were not authorised to speak to the media.
Meanwhile, the Israeli military on Thursday confirmed it had killed a Hizbollah commander, his deputy and another fighter in an air strike in Lebanese territory.
Ali al-Debs and the other two fighters were killed Wednesday night “in a precise air strike carried out by an IDF (Israeli army) aircraft on a Hizbollah military structure in Nabatiyeh”, the military said in a statement.
Hizbollah said it had fired dozens of rockets into northern Israel.
“In a first response to the massacres in Nabatiyeh and Sawaneh, Islamic resistance fighters fired dozens of Katyusha-type rockets at Kiryat Shmona,” an Israeli town near the Lebanese border, Hizbollah said in a statement.