A Palestinian security official tells AFP that a senior Hamas member allegedly targeted in an alleged Israeli airstrike earlier today in Lebanon survived the attack.
The strike on a vehicle in the village of Jadra, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Israeli border, allegedly targeted Basel Salah, a Hamas operative charged with recruiting and managing members of the terror group, including in the West Bank, The Times of Israel reported earlier.
Salah is believed to have been wounded in the strike.
The Hamas unit Salah was a member of was headed by Azzam Al-Aqraa, who was killed in the alleged Israeli strike on Beirut last month, also killing the terror group’s deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri.
Lebanese media outlets report an alleged Israeli airstrike on a vehicle in the village of Jadra, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) from the Israeli border.
Al-Jazeera, citing a Lebanese security source, says three people are killed in the strike
It would potentially mark the deepest Israeli strike in Lebanon since hostilities ramped up after Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.
Saudis warn Israel against military operation in Rafah
Saudi Arabia warns Israel against launching a military operation in the southern Gaza city of Rafah, the last Hamas stronghold in the Strip, where more than a million displaced Palestinians are sheltering.
A statement from its foreign ministry says “the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia warns of the extremely dangerous repercussions of storming and targeting the city of Rafah in the Gaza Strip.”
The IDF says fighter jets carried out strikes a short while ago against a building used by Hezbollah in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil and an observation post in Markaba.
Last night, the IDF says it also struck a Hezbollah command center and another site used by the terror group’s air defense unit.
Hamas warns that there could be “tens of thousands” of dead and injured if the Israeli military attacks Rafah, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu this week said he had ordered troops to prepare to go into the city, crowded with displaced Palestinians, as it hunts down those responsible for the deadly October 7 attacks on southern Israel.
Hamas says in a statement that any military action would have catastrophic repercussions that “may lead to tens of thousands of martyrs and injured if Rafah… is invaded.”
The terror group says it would hold “the American administration, international community and the Israeli occupation” responsible if that happened.
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