BEIRUT, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Two Hezbollah members were killed and a civilian wounded on Thursday when an Israeli drone hit a car in southern Lebanon's Tyre district, said Lebanese military sources.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said an Israeli drone targeted, with an air-to-surface missile, a car that was driving on the road between Qana and Ramadiyeh in Tyre, causing a fire and killing the people inside it.
According to the sources, one of the fatalities was Ali Fawzi Ayoub, a local Hezbollah official from the Tyre district and the son of Hezbollah leader Fawzi Ayoub, who was killed in Syria in May 2014.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon.
The confrontations between Hezbollah and Israel have killed 465 people on the Lebanese side, including 293 Hezbollah members and 86 civilians, according to Lebanese security sources. ■
