The Al Jazeera correspondent reported that a local official in Hezbollah survived an Israeli airstrike targeting a car near the Bint Jbeil Government Hospital in the Nabatieh Governorate, South Lebanon.
Al Jazeera’s bureau chief in Lebanon, Mazen Ibrahim, stated that Israeli forces carried out a series of airstrikes across all sectors in southern Lebanon today.
The National News Agency reported that an “enemy drone targeted a car near Bint Jbeil Government Hospital,” resulting in “injuries,” without providing further details.
The Civil Defense, affiliated with the Islamic Scout Mission Organization (a relief agency associated with the Amal Movement), reported transferring a wounded individual to a hospital in the area.
Several towns in southern Lebanon were hit by 7 Israeli airstrikes on Monday.
According to the National News Agency, Israeli aircraft also carried out a strike on an uninhabited house in the border town of Ayta ash-Shab.
On Saturday, Israel targeted a car in the town of Jadra, approximately 40 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border, in the second attack outside the southern border region since the escalation coinciding with the Gaza war began.
Israeli sources stated that the strike targeted and narrowly missed Basil Saleh, described as a senior member of the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), who survived the attack.
The strike resulted in the deaths of two individuals, one of whom was a civilian, while Hezbollah mourned one of its members from the town.
Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza on October 7, daily shelling exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel have been ongoing along the southern Lebanese border, sparking international concerns of escalating tensions and prompting Western officials to visit Beirut and call for a de-escalation.
Since the escalation began, at least 236 people have been killed in southern Lebanon, including 170 Hezbollah fighters and 30 civilians, including 3 journalists. In Israel, the occupying army announced the deaths of 15, including 9 soldiers.
