Israel’s military said Thursday its forces carried out airstrikes against Hezbollah targets in several areas of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said one of the strikes in the town of Doueir destroyed a house, but that no casualties were reported.
The Israeli military also said Thursday it conducted raids in the Rafah area in the southern Gaza Strip, where it has battled Hamas militants for months. Israeli fighter jets also destroyed a militant firing site in northern Gaza, the military said.
Aid group World Central Kitchen said Thursday a Palestinian member of its warehouse team was killed in central Gaza. The group said it was seeking details about Nadi Sallout’s death, and that it believed he was off duty at the time.
Israel’s military said it was “unaware of any incident in which an employee of the organization was harmed during his work in recent days.”
Israeli airstrikes in April hit three World Central Kitchen vehicles, killing seven people. Israel said it did not deliberately target the aid workers in the attack.
The continued military action comes amid fears of an expanded conflict in the region following Israel’s recent killing of a Hezbollah commander in Beirut and an attack in Tehran that killed Hamas’ political leader.
Hezbollah has vowed to respond, while Israel has pledged to eliminate newly appointed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.
Israel has vowed to destroy Hamas in retaliation for the October 7 terror attack that killed 1,200 people and led to the capture of 250 hostages. Israel’s counteroffensive has killed nearly 40,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry, while Israel says the death toll includes thousands of Hamas fighters it has killed.
Some information for this story was provided by The Associated Press, Agence France-Presse and Reuters.
