BEIRUT, Jun 12 (NNN-NNA) – Four people were killed and 10 others injured, late yesterday, in a Zionist airstrike on the town of Jouaiya, in the south-eastern Lebanese city of Tyre, Lebanese media reported.
The airstrike hit a house with three missiles in Jouaiya, killing Abu Talib, a senior military leader of the Lebanese armed group, Hezbollah, and three of his companions.
Hezbollah has not yet issued any comments regarding the incident.
According to local medical sources, teams from the civil defence and Islamic Health Authority, continued to remove the rubble of the house, and the Lebanese Red Cross continued its efforts to transport casualties to hospitals in the city. Meanwhile, search was underway to locate missing persons.
In response to the airstrike, Hezbollah announced that it had launched attacks on the Zionist military sites, using drones and missiles.
Lebanese military sources said, they had monitored “the crossing of 12 drones and about 80 surface-to-surface missiles from the Lebanese side to northern Israel,” while the Zionist Iron Dome aerial defence system intercepted some of them.– NNN-NNA