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Four Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Airstrike
Four Hezbollah Fighters Killed in Israeli Airstrike
Four Hezbollah fighters were killed in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, according to a Lebanese security source cited by AFP on Tuesday.
Medical and security sources told Reuters that an Israeli strike targeted a house in the town of Mefdoun in southern Lebanon on Tuesday, killing four males. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military.
Earlier, the National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone struck a two-story house in the Nadi neighborhood of Mefdoun, causing smoke plumes and drawing ambulances to the scene.
Although most of the exchanges of fire between Hezbollah and the Israeli military are concentrated in the border area, Mefdoun is about 30 kilometers north of the Lebanese-Israeli border.
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These developments follow the deaths of three individuals in Israeli strikes targeting southern Lebanon on Monday, including a paramedic mourned by his association and two fighters mourned by Hezbollah. Continued cross-border shelling has raised fears of a regional conflict.
Concerns of a broader regional conflict are increasing after Iran and its allies vowed to retaliate for the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran, an operation attributed to Israel, and the killing of senior Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr in an Israeli strike near Beirut. The United States has also bolstered its military presence in the region.
Since the escalation across the border began, at least 550 people have been killed in Lebanon, including 355 Hezbollah fighters and 116 civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Lebanese authorities and Hezbollah statements. Israeli authorities have reported the deaths of 22 soldiers and 25 civilians.
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