This photo taken with a mobile phone shows the car in which a leader of the Islamic Group, Mohammad Khaled Jbara, was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Ghazzeh, Lebanon, July 18, 2024. A leader from the Islamic Group was killed on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Ghazzeh in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.(Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)
BEIRUT, July 18 (Xinhua) -- A leader from the Islamic Group was killed on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Ghazzeh in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli drone fired two air-to-surface missiles at a four-wheel drive vehicle in Ghazzeh, killing its driver, Mohammad Khaled Jbara.
The sources noted that Jbara was a field commander in the al-Fajr forces, the military wing of the Islamic Group, and he is from the village of Qaraoun in west Bekaa.
They added that Jbara was a military activist in the Arqoub area in southeast Lebanon.
The military sources said that Israeli warplanes carried out four airstrikes at dawn on four towns and villages in the border region of south Lebanon, destroying eight houses and damaging 23 others, while the Israeli artillery fired 45 shells on nine towns and villages, resulting in material damage and several fires.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it attacked several Israeli sites in response to Israel's killing of civilians in southern Lebanon. ■
This photo taken with a mobile phone shows members of the Lebanese army and citizens at the site of an Israeli airstrike targeting a car in Ghazzeh, Lebanon, on July 18, 2024. A leader from the Islamic Group was killed on Thursday in an Israeli airstrike on the village of Ghazzeh in the Bekaa region in eastern Lebanon, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.(Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)
