Hezbollah says four fighters killed in south Lebanon including a local leader

Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the movement announced on Thursday, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura.

The deaths, which according to a source close to Hezbollah, included a local leader. It said in a statement the four fighters had been killed “on the road to Jerusalem” – a phrase it has been using to announce deaths of its members due to Israeli fire since the Israel-Hamas conflict started on 7 October.

The group did not elaborate, but a source close to Hezbollah told AFP that the four were killed in Naqura near the Israeli border, adding that one of them was the movement’s local leader.

Lebanon’s official National news agency said Israeli aircraft “carried out raids on the centre of Naqura, which destroyed a home and damaged surrounding houses”.

The Lebanese group had on Wednesday announced the deaths of five other Hezbollah fighters in southern Lebanon.

Source » theguardian.com