Israeli airstrikes have claimed the lives of at least eight people, including a child, in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry announced the fatalities on Friday, saying the victims were killed in Israeli drone attacks that targeted various locations across the south.
It said an “Israeli enemy drone strike” had killed two people, including the seven-year-old minor, in Aita al-Jabal, with Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) saying the aircraft had targeted a house in the village with “two guided missiles.”
Israeli strikes also claimed the lives of six other people in different locations in the south. Five fighters of the country’s Hezbollah resistance movement were among them.
Hezbollah has identified one of the victims as Mohammad Mahmoud Najm “Karrar”, whom the Israeli military referred to as a “significant” member of the movement’s Rocket and Missile Unit in southern Lebanon.
The regime has been conducting near-daily attacks against southern Lebanon since October 7, when it launched a genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
The attacks have reportedly claimed the lives of around 600 people in Lebanon.
Hezbollah has been responding with strikes aimed both at retaliating against the regime and supporting the war-hit Gazans.
The regime, which waged wars against Lebanon in 2000 and 2006, has repeatedly threatened to expand its attacks into another wholesale military onslaught against the country.
Hezbollah has vowed to defend the Lebanese soil with all its resources.
It has also pledged to avenge the blood of Fuad Shukr, one of the group’s senior commanders, and Ismail Haniyeh, political leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas.
The resistance figures were martyred in separate assassination operations conducted by Tel Aviv in Lebanon’s capital Beirut and the Iranian capital Tehran late last month.
On August 16, it revealed a new underground missile facility featuring a convoluted tunnel network, missile launchpads, and blast doors opening outwards, hinting at its operational readiness to stage the reprisal.
Source: Press TV
