Beirut, 22 August 2024 (TDI): Tensions on the southern Lebanese border reached new heights on Wednesday as Israel expanded its target list to include Palestinian officials, assassinating a senior Fatah leader.
Hezbollah announced it targeted an Israeli tank near the border town of Aabbasiyyeh with a guided missile while the vehicle was shelling the outskirts of Halta town, part of the municipality of Kfarchouba in southeast Lebanon.
It was the second direct confrontation of its kind since the start of hostilities between the Israel and Hezbollah. Over the previous ten months, hostile operations had been limited to artillery and rocket exchanges, as well as air raids.
After violence in the Bekaa region on Tuesday night, an Israeli drone carried out a guided missile at a car in the town of Beit Lif on Wednesday morning, killing its Lebanese driver. Israeli shelling on Wazzani town resulted in the death of a Syrian boy.
Israeli planes struck a 2-story house in the border town of Dhayra, killing 3 people.
A motorcyclist narrowly escaped death after an Israeli drone fired a missile in the town of Chehabiyeh in the Tyre region.
At noon, an Israeli drone carried out an airstrike on a car in the city of Sidon, close to Ain Al-Hilweh Palestinian refugee camp, killing retired Fatah officer Khalil Al-Maqdah.
Al-Maqdah was the brother of Munir Al-Maqdah, the head of Al-Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades — the Lebanese branch of Fatah’s armed wing — which mourned him as “one of our leaders in Lebanon.”
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Israeli strikes on the Bekaa on Tuesday night resulted in the death of Ali Ahmad Al-Moussawi and wounded thirty people, including 4 Syrian nationals, the Ministry of Health’s emergency center said.
Among the injured were 9 children, including Karine Mohammed Al-Moussawi (five), Huda Ali Al-Moussawi (two), Nour Mohammed Nazem Al-Moussawi (eight) and Hussein Ali Al-Moussawi (four).
