Two people were killed, Mariam Kachakech, widow of an Amal fighter, and her 10 year-old niece Sarah, and six others were wounded, three of them in serious condition, according to preliminary reports, in an Israeli raid on a house in the village of Hanine, in the Bint Jbeil caza, South Lebanon. By early evening, rescue workers were still working to clear the rubble.
Tension on the southern border intensified on Tuesday afternoon following the assassination of two Hezbollah cadres, one killed by the Israeli army on Monday night and the other on Tuesday morning.
In retaliation, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a drone raid on the Golani Brigade headquarters and the Egoz (621) unit in the northern Israeli coastal town of Acre, as well as for a gathering of Israeli soldiers in the Al-Assi position. Later in the afternoon, in a series of statements, Hezbollah announced that it had targeted, within the space of ten minutes, two gatherings of Israeli soldiers in Horch Ramim and Tallet Karantina, as well as the so-called radar position in the Shebaa Farms and the Roueissat el-Alam position in Kfarchouba.
Earlier in the morning, Hezbollah released a video showing an operation targeting spy equipment belonging to the Israeli army in Wazzani and Hanita.
The Israeli response was swift. In the afternoon, Israel stepped up its bombardments and targeted the outskirts of the village of Hanine, as well as the villages of Hula and Alma al-Shaab. Raids were also carried out against an area between the villages of Markaba and Hula, against a house in the village of Blida, and against the villages of Hounin, Hula and Aita al-Shaab.
The southern Lebanese borders witnessed, on Tuesday afternoon, increased tensions after the killing of two Hezbollah officials, one killed by the Israeli Army on Monday night and the other on Tuesday morning.
This morning, the outskirts of Tyre, Tayr Harfa and Alma al-Shaab were targets for Israeli artillery, while spy drones flew over villages in the western and central sectors, in addition to Tyre and Bint Jbeil districts.
Israeli Army spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced on his X account that the air force intercepted “two suspicious objects over territorial waters in the north of the country.”
“Alarm sirens have been activated,” he added.
On Tuesday morning, an engineer in Hezbollah’s air defense unit, Hussein Ali Azkoul, was killed in an Israeli drone-raid that targeted his car on the Abou el-Assouad road, near Adloun, in the caza of Tyre.
It was not until midday that Hezbollah revealed the identity of the victim of the morning raid.
Avichay Adraee, who had announced earlier in the morning that a high-ranking member of Hezbollah’s air defense unit had been killed in the raid, without giving a name, subsequently stated on his X account that the Israeli air force had killed two members of the pro-Iranian group.
According to him, the second was Sajed Sarafand, a member of the “Radwan” forces, killed on Monday night in the Arzoun region.
Adraee also stated that Israeli fighter jets had attacked a military building belonging to Hezbollah in Yaroun and four others of its infrastructures on Monday night.
