A separate Israeli strike on the village of Aita, approximately 14 km north of the border with Israel, killed a Hezbollah fighter and a child, the security source told Reuters. Hezbollah identified the fighter killed in Aita as Mohammad Najem.
The Israeli military, in a statement posted online, said it had targeted Najem in Aita because he was a member of Hezbollah’s rocket and missile unit. It said it had targeted two other Hezbollah fighters across the south.
Its statement said “a number of projectiles fired from Lebanese territory” had crossed into northern Israel but that no injuries were reported.
Hezbollah’s press office said the group had fired rockets and artillery fire onto various Israeli military positions throughout the day.
More than 600 people in Lebanon have been killed since the start of the clashes last October, including more than 400 Hezbollah combatants and over 130 civilians, according to a Reuters toll.
