Israel pursued its air strikes on southern Lebanon from Friday night until Saturday morning.

Hezbollah announced in a statement on Saturday morning that its fighter Rafi Fayez Hassan “Nasser Ali” (born in 1974) was killed in an Israeli raid on the town of Khiam.

Around midnight on Friday, Israeli warplanes carried out two raids with heavy missiles on Kfarchouba and Shebaa in the Arkoub region. The Kfarchouba raid resulted in the death of civilian Kassem Asaad and destroyed two houses.

This comes after two members of Jamaa Islamiya, a Lebanese Islamist group with close ties to Palestinian Hamas, were killed in an Israeli drone strike on Friday which targeted their car on the Meidoun road in western Bekaa. The individuals killed were identified as Mossaab Khalaf and Bilal Khalaf.

The Israeli army had stated that “the Jamaa Islamiya terrorist organization recently planned and promoted a large number of terror attacks from Lebanese territory against Israel in the area of Har Dov, as well as additional areas in northern Israel.”