Six Hezbollah fighters killed in Israeli strikes on Mayfadoun, Odaisseh
Israeli warplanes raided Tuesday the southern village of Mayfadoun in the Nabatiyeh district, killing five Hezbollah fighters.
Another person was injured in a separate strike on al-Khiam and a child was wounded in artillery shelling on al-Wazzani.
Lebanon's health ministry said an "Israeli enemy raid on a house in the town of Mayfadoun", near the southern city of Nabatiyeh, killed five people. Requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, a security source told AFP "they were all Hezbollah fighters".
Hezbollah announced five fighters had been killed, without specifying where they died.
The Israeli military said its air force "struck a Hezbollah military structure in the area of Nabatiyeh" that was being used "to advance terror attacks" against Israel.
Israeli warplanes later raided a region between Odaisseh and Rab Tlatine in south Lebanon, killing one person and wounding another.
Hezbollah, for its part, said it targeted a building used by Israeli soldiers in Avivim in northern Israel, in response to Israeli attacks on civilians in south Lebanon. The group later targeted a group of soldiers in the Berkat Risha post with Burkan rockets, the al-Marj post with artillery shells, and an armored personnel carrier in the occupied Shebaa Farms.
Israeli strikes had killed three people Monday, two Hezbollah fighters and a paramedic.
Since last week, tensions have soared as Iran and Tehran-backed groups, including Hezbollah, vowed revenge for the killing of Hamas's political leader in Tehran and Israel's killing of the Lebanese group's military chief in Beirut.
Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israel in support of its ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack on Israel triggered the Gaza war.
The twin killings have raised fears of full-blown war between Israel and Hezbollah, which last went to war in the summer of 2006.
Source: Naharnet
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