3 Amal fighters killed in Israeli strike on Marjeyoun
An Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon has killed three Amal Movement fighters, the Hezbollah-allied movement said.
Israel said warplanes bombed what it described as an Amal military compound and said the group was planning an attack against Israel. The military statement said its jets also struck several locations used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, and a jet attacked a person doing "drone observation activity" near the border.
Friday's violence comes as Israel has been trading fire almost daily with Hezbollah and other Lebanese militant groups for months. The attack on Amal was the first Israeli attack on Marjeyoun, a large town in southeastern Lebanon, since the latest round of cross-border clashes began on Oct. 8.
Hezbollah, a close ally to the Palestinian militant group Hamas, says the clashes aim to pressure Israel to end its war in Gaza.
Fears of the Israel-Hamas war spilling over into other Mideast countries worsened this week after an Israeli airstrike hit the Iranian Consulate building in Syria.
Source: Associated Press
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