An Israeli strike killed one person in southern Lebanon on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry said, with Israel accusing the slain man of being a Hezbollah intelligence operative.<\/p>\n
The latest attack, despite a November ceasefire, comes a day after Israeli strikes killed seven people in the eastern Bekaa Valley, two of them members of leftist militant group the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).<\/p>\n
The man killed in Friday’s strike, Mohammad Shahadeh, ran a local news website and colleagues took to social media to offer their condolences to his family.<\/p>\n
Lebanon’s official National News Agency said his car was hit on the main Sidon-Tyre road, along the Mediterranean coast in the country’s south.<\/p>\n
Social media users circulated an obituary released by militant group Hezbollah, which described him as a “martyr on the road to Jerusalem”, the term the group uses for members killed in fighting with Israel.<\/p>\n
Israel’s military said Shahadeh was “responsible for intelligence” in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.<\/p>\n
A military statement said he had “operated to advance the force buildup and operational readiness of Hezbollah’s Radwan force” during hostilities which escalated into two months of full-blown war in September.<\/p>\n
The PFLP meanwhile mourned “commander and Central Committee member Mohammad Khalil Wishah” and “field commander Mufid Hassan Hussein, who were martyred yesterday (Thursday) in a treacherous Zionist assassination crime on the road between Syria and Lebanon”.<\/p>\n
The Israeli military confirmed the strike, saying Wishah was part of the PFLP’s “military-security department in Syria” since his predecessor was assassinated in an Israeli air strike in Beirut in September.<\/p>\n
The military alleged that Wishah “recently operated to advance military operations against Israeli targets”.<\/p>\n
Israel has repeatedly struck Lebanon despite last year’s truce and has threatened to continue its attacks until Hezbollah has been disarmed.<\/p>\n
This week, the Lebanese government agreed an end of year target for the disarmament of the militant group and tasked the army with drawing up a plan by the end of August.<\/p>\n
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