Four Hezbollah fighters were killed overnight in southern Lebanon, the Iran-backed movement announced, in what Lebanese state media said were Israeli strikes on the border town of Naqura, AFP reports.
The deaths, which according to a source close to the group include a local Hezbollah leader, follow a strike on Beirut this week that killed a senior Hamas leader, raising regional tensions as the conflict rages in Gaza.
Hezbollah 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 fighting started on October 7.
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”.
