A Lebanese safety official informed AFP that an Israeli strike on a Hezbollah van carrying munitions close to Beirut killed the driving force on Wednesday.
“A van belonging to Hezbollah was focused in an Israeli strike on the Kahhale highway and its driver killed,” the official stated, including that the car was carrying munitions.
The official requested anonymity to debate delicate issues.
An AFP correspondent noticed a car on fireplace and stated the Kahhale highway, which hyperlinks Beirut to Damascus, had been blocked in each instructions.
Lebanon’s official Nationwide Information Company (NNA) earlier reported an “enemy drone strike” on a car.
An Israeli strike on a four-wheel-drive car in close by Qmatiyeh, a village within the Aley district, killed one other two individuals, stated the safety official, who didn’t establish the casualties.
Final week, the NNA stated an Israeli strike concentrating on a automobile on the identical freeway killed two individuals.
In August 2023, two individuals have been killed in clashes between Hezbollah members and residents of the Christian city of Kahhale, after a truck carrying munitions for the group overturned on the freeway.
The warfare has killed at the least 1,754 individuals in Lebanon since September 23, in line with an AFP tally of well being ministry figures, although the actual quantity is more likely to be increased resulting from gaps within the knowledge.
