The Popular Front said in a statement that the Israeli raid resulted in the killing of a member of the Front’s political bureau and an official in the military security department, Muhammad Abdel-Al, in addition to a member of the Front’s military department and its military commander in Lebanon, Imad Odeh, and Abdel-Rahman Abdel-Al.
The statement described the killing of the Front’s members as an “assassination operation” carried out by Israeli aircraft.
Witnesses told Reuters that they heard an explosion while smoke was seen rising southwest of the Lebanese capital, Beirut.
The sounds of ambulances were heard in the area in the first Israeli strike outside the southern suburb of Beirut and within the city limits.
Witnesses told Reuters that the Israeli strike targeted an apartment near the Cola Bridge in Beirut.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health said in a statement, at dawn on Monday, that the Israeli raids in the past 24 hours on towns and villages in southern Lebanon, the Bekaa, Baalbek-Hermel, and the southern suburb of Beirut, led to 105 deaths and 359 injuries.
Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging fire across the border since the start of the war in Gaza, which broke out after the Hamas attack on Israeli towns on October 7.
Israel intensified its attacks on Hezbollah two weeks ago and said that the aim of these attacks was to secure the return of residents to the northern regions, which led to the killing of a large number of the group’s leaders, led by the party’s Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
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