Lebanese teen killed amid ongoing Israeli aggression on South Lebanon

By Al Mayadeen English
Source: Al Mayadeen English
1 Nov 2023 10:55

Hussein Kourani has succumbed to the wounds he sustained in an Israeli attack on the southern town of Yater on Tuesday.

15-year-old Hussein Kourani (Social media)

Al Mayadeen’s correspondent in southern Lebanon reported that 15-year-old Lebanese youth, Hussein Kourani, succumbed to the wounds he had sustained yesterday, Tuesday, as a result of an Israeli raid on the town of Yater.

Israeli occupation forces had targeted yesterday the western side of Yater with a drone and its southern side with artillery shells.

The IOF have targeted civilians in the Lebanese border villages on more than one occasion recently and did not even spare press crews in the town of Alma al-Shaab, while they were covering these attacks on the south.

"According to the ballistic analysis carried out by RSF, the shots came from the east of where the journalists were standing; from the direction of the Israeli border," RSF said. "Two strikes in the same place in such a short space of time (just over 30 seconds), from the same… pic.twitter.com/1e0m5DTlq3
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 29, 2023

In one of these attacks, Reuters photojournalist Issam Abdallah was killed and several others were wounded.

The Israeli occupation killed a #Reuters journalist and injured three others during its attack on their car in southern #Lebanon. pic.twitter.com/xR0mm640uS
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) October 13, 2023

In response to these attacks, the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon - Hezbollah targeted Israeli forces sites in “Shtoula” with guided missiles, in the context of responding to the Israeli bombing in Shebaa, which led to the martyrdom of citizens Khalil Ali Hashem and Rabab al-Aaqoum, and in response to the occupation’s targeting of journalists, which led to the martyrdom of Issam Abdallah.