Three Hezbollah’s fighters were killed in Israeli raids on Monday, as artillery exchanges between the group and the Israeli army in Southern surged in intensity, following a weekend marked by heightened violence.
The Israeli army announced that it had eliminated a “senior member” of Hezbollah’s technical unit in a strike in the Tyre region on Monday.
On his X account, the Israeli army’s Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adraee, reported that the Israeli air force had “succeeded in liquidating Ali Hussein Sabra, who was part of (Hezbollah’s) air defense unit”. Sabra, he said, was “responsible for developing the air military power and weaponry” of the pro-Iranian group.
Adraee also claimed that Israel conducted a raid against “a Hezbollah military structure, including a series of buildings used by its air defense unit, in the village of Katrani, in southern Lebanon”.
A video taken from a drone, showing the targeting of a speeding car, attached to Adraee’s post.
Later during the day, Hezbollah officially confirmed the death of Ali Hussein Sabra, who was targeted while driving near Kaouthariyet al-Rez, situated between Al-Zarariya and Abou al-Aswad, along the coastal route connecting the villages of Zahrani to the city of Tyre.
It then announced the death of Hussein Ahmad Nassereddine in a raid, which also targeted his car in Abbassiyé, followed by that of Mohammad Chawki Choucair.
Six successive raids were also carried out against the heights of Jabal el-Rayhan and Jabal Abou Rachid in the Jezzine region.
At around 11.10 a.m., Israeli warplanes took turns targeting Hanine in the caza of Bint Jbeil and the Ksarat al-Aroush-Aramta heights in Iqlim al-Touffah region.
A drone attack also targeted Aïta el-Chaab. The outskirts of Mouhaybib were bombarded by Israeli artillery.
On Monday morning, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for an attack on a military vehicle in Jabal Adathir. It said, “the guided missile strike killed “one Israeli soldier and wounded another”, and set the target on fire.
For their part, the Israeli media reported that a fire had broken out in the settlement of Ramim in the Upper Galilee.
These events come on the heels of escalating violence on the border between Hezbollah and Israel, where on Sunday two shepherds were killed in a strike on Houla.
Similarly, the neighborhood of Wadi al-Assafir in the town of Khiam was the target of two air strikes at 3.10am.
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