This photo taken on Sept. 29, 2024 shows the house where Mohammad Dahrouj, an official of the Islamic Group, was killed in eastern Lebanon's Joub Jannine area. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)
BEIRUT, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) -- Mohammad Dahrouj, an official of the Islamic Group, was killed on Sunday in an Israel airstrike on a residential apartment in eastern Lebanon's Joub Jannine area, according to Lebanese military sources.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said an Israeli warplane targeted the apartment with two air-to-ground missiles, killing Dahrouj.
The Lebanese Red Cross personnel had transferred his body to a hospital in Joub Jannine.
The Lebanese Civil Defense also confirmed that one person was killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Joub Jannine.
"Elements of the Civil Defense extinguished a fire that broke out as a result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in Joub Jannine," it said in a statement.
The Islamic Group is an Islamic political organization with a military wing called the al-Fajr Forces, which has recently carried out military operations against the Israeli army.
The Islamic Group has not yet issued any comment on the incident. ■
This photo taken on Sept. 29, 2024 shows the house where Mohammad Dahrouj, an official of the Islamic Group, was killed in eastern Lebanon's Joub Jannine area. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)
