Hezbollah Official Killed in Lebanon-Israel Border Clashes

January 3, 2024 Hour: 7:13 pm

According to local media, seven Hezbollah fighters, including Hezbollah official Hussein Yazbek, were killed Wednesday night in confrontations on the Lebanese-Israeli border.

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The local Al-Jadeed television channel reported that Yazbek and his three bodyguards were killed in an Israeli airstrike on a house in the southern town of Naqoura.

Meanwhile, the National News Agency reported the death of three other Hezbollah fighters in an airstrike on a house in the southern town of Markaba.

Hezbollah confirmed earlier in the day the death of two of its fighters in Israeli airstrikes and heavy artillery shelling in several villages and towns in southern Lebanon.

The martyrdom of Hezbollah senior official Hussein Yazbek, along with three others who were with him, in a insidious Israeli attack.

– What is the interest of the Israeli in igniting the northern front? pic.twitter.com/bhAgzcinKP

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January 3, 2024

Since October 8, the Lebanese-Israeli border has witnessed increased tension amid the war being waged by Israeli occupation forces against the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank.

On that occasion, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah fired dozens of rockets into Israel in support of Hamas attacks against Israel the previous day.

Israel responded by firing heavy artillery into southeastern Lebanon. According to Lebanese security sources, 201 people were killed on the Lebanese side in the clashes, including 146 Hezbollah members and 35 civilians.