Israel assassinates Fatah official in airstrike in southern Lebanon
An official with the Palestinian Fatah movement has been killed after the Israeli military carried out an airstrike in southern Lebanon, as tensions continue to escalate.
Fathi Abu al-Aradat, a senior member of the Palestinian movement, identified the victim as Khalil al-Maqdah, saying the Fatah official was killed after an Israeli strike hit his vehicle near the southern Lebanese city of Sidon.
The latest incident marks the first such attack on Palestinian movement Fatah in over 10 months of clashes between fighters of Lebanon’s resistance movement Hezbollah and the Israeli military.
Lebanese media also confirmed the strike, with al-Nahar Arabic-language daily newspaper reporting that several people were injured in the attack.
Footage posted by Lebanese media showed a car engulfed in flames, with thick black smoke rising as a crowd gathers.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire since early October, shortly after the occupying regime launched its war on Gaza.
The movement has vowed to keep up its retaliatory operations as long as the Tel Aviv regime continues its onslaught on Gaza that has so far killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured tens of thousands others.
In its most daring attack against Lebanon since the beginning of the Gaza onslaught, Israel assassinated Fuad Shukr, a senior Hezbollah military commander and an advisor to the movement’s Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, in a strike against a building in a suburb of Beirut late in July.
Hezbollah has pledged to avenge the blood of Fuad Shukr, as well as Ismail Haniyeh, the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas’ former political leader, who was assassinated in a separate assassination operation conducted by Tel Aviv in the Iranian capital Tehran late last month.
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