BEIRUT, Aug. 17 (Xinhua) -- A member of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah was killed on Saturday in an Israeli airstrike on a bicycle in southern Lebanon, a Lebanese military source said.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that an Israeli drone carried out the attack on the Qadmus Road near the southwestern Lebanese city of Tyre. He added that a civil defense vehicle had transported the victim's body to a hospital in Tyre.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in a statement that "the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted an enemy position at the Marj site with two suicide bombers, killing and wounding a number of them."
Earlier in the day, an Israeli warplane fired four missiles at a factory and a workers' building in the Wadi al-Kafour area, killing 10 people and wounding another five.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas' attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon.
The situation escalated further after Israel's attack on Dahieh in Beirut's southern suburbs, killing a Hezbollah senior military commander, Fouad Shokor, and seven civilians. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened a definite and painful response to the Israeli raid at the appropriate time and place. ■
