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- Israeli drone strike hit a car near Jiyeh, 30 km south of Beirut, wounding a Hezbollah member
- Strike followed Israeli raids in the Bekaa Valley that killed five people, according to Lebanon’s health ministry
BEIRUT: An Israeli drone strike targeted a car south of Beirut on Tuesday, wounding a Hezbollah member, according to a Lebanese security source.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that “an enemy drone targeted a car near the mosque of Zarout between the towns of Jiyeh and Barja in Iqlim el-Kharrub,” around 30 kilometers (18 miles) south of the capital.
A security source told AFP the strike hit a Hezbollah member, who was injured but not killed. An AFP photographer saw a burnt-out vehicle near a mosque, as soldiers secured the scene.
The strike comes a day after the Israeli military said it had carried out raids on Hezbollah positions in the eastern Bekaa Valley, targeting what it described as training compounds used by the group’s elite Radwan force. Lebanon’s health ministry said those strikes killed five people.
Israel has continued to launch air raids in Lebanon despite a November truce aimed at ending more than a year of hostilities, including two months of open war with the Iran-backed group. The agreement stipulated Hezbollah would withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River, while Israel would pull its forces from Lebanese territory — though Israeli troops remain in five areas it considers strategic.
In August, Lebanon’s government instructed the army to draft plans to disarm Hezbollah by the end of the year, amid US pressure and fears of an expanded Israeli campaign.