Four people were killed, and 10 others injured late Tuesday in an Israeli airstrike on the town of Jouaiya in the southeastern Lebanese city of Tyre, Lebanese media reported.
The airstrike hit a house with three missiles in Jouaiya, killing Abu Talib, a senior military leader of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah, and three of his companions, according to the official National News Agency and Lebanese TV channel al-Jadeed.
Hezbollah has not yet issued any comments regarding the incident.
According to local medical sources, teams from the civil defense and Islamic Health Authority continued to remove the rubble of the house, and the Lebanese Red Cross continued its efforts to transport casualties to hospitals in the city. Meanwhile, search was underway to locate missing persons.
In response to the airstrike, Hezbollah announced that it had launched attacks on Israeli military sites using drones and missiles.
Lebanese military sources said they had monitored “the crossing of 12 drones and about 80 surface-to-surface missiles from the Lebanese side to northern Israel,” while the Israeli Iron Dome aerial defense system intercepted some of them.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas’s attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon.
