The Israeli Air Force attacked targets of the pro-Iranian Hezbollah militia in Lebanon. As the Israeli military reported overnight, warplanes struck Shiite militia infrastructure on Lebanese soil. Hezbollah said at least five of its members were killed in the attack. Among them is the son of the chairman of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc in the Lebanese parliament, Mohamed Raad.
As the German Press Agency learned from Lebanese security circles, they were members of Hezbollah’s elite Al Radwan brigade. Thus, a house in the village of Beit Yahoun, in southern Lebanon, was hit.
There are concerns that the Gaza war between Israel and Islamic Hamas could spread to Lebanon. Hezbollah has links to Hamas, but is considered more influential and significantly more powerful. It is also considered Iran’s most important non-state ally and is part of the self-proclaimed “Axis of Resistance”, a front of militias aiming to fight Iran’s archenemy, Israel. Since the start of the war in Gaza, there have been repeated violent incidents on the border between Israel and Lebanon, with deaths on both sides.
Israel’s military said overnight that troops and warplanes attacked a “terrorist cell” that attempted to fire rockets into Israeli territory. A “terrorist cell” that fired on troops was also hit.