'Israel' strikes civilian area to kill Hamas official in Lebanon
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The Israeli occupation forces struck a car moving in traffic in southern Lebanon to assassinate a Hamas commander.
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A screengrab from a CCTV footage depicting the moment of the Israeli strike (Social Media)
Palestinian Resistance group Hamas said Friday that one of its commanders was martyred in an Israeli air strike in southeastern Lebanon, near the Syrian border.
Sharhabil Sayed was martyred "after he was targeted by an Israeli occupation aircraft," Hamas' military wing, al-Qassam Brigades, said in a statement.
Lebanon's civil defense agency reported "one martyr and two wounded due to an Israeli air strike" on a vehicle near Majdal Anjar, a town around five kilometers from the Syrian border and around 60 kilometers from Lebanon's border area with occupied Palestine.
Similarly, Lebanon's official National News Agency said one was killed and two others were wounded in an "enemy strike" that targeted the area.
CCTV footage of the attack shows that the Israeli occupation forces launched Four missiles at a moving truck that had traffic around it, one of which nearly hit a civilian vehicle to the left of the targeted vehicle.
There were numerous other vehicles around, and the lives of civilians were endangered in the process, evident in the fact that two others were wounded in the assassination.
كاميرات المراقبة توثق لحظة الإستهداف الإسرائيلي الذي طال سيارة في منطقة المصنع - مجدل عنجر pic.twitter.com/hDHItePsSh
— bintjbeil.org (@bintjbeilnews) May 17, 2024
The Israeli occupation has been assassinating commanders in the Resistance in Lebanon for the past seven months, violating the country's sovereignty and endangering its civilians.
The latest assassination targeted Hezbollah Resistance fighter Hussein Khodor "Abu Khodor" Mahdi as a martyr on the path to al-Quds, saying the combatant was born in 1962 and from the village of al-Najariya.
Video footage of the strike that martyred Mahdi was surfaced online, wherein the Israeli occupation forces drone struck a truck on the street.
فيديو يظهر لحظة الاعتداء الإسرائيلي الذي استهدف "بيك أب" في بلدة #النجارية.#لبنان #الميادين_لبنان pic.twitter.com/VIOWq0iCeC
— الميادين لبنان (@mayadeenlebanon) May 17, 2024
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