Israeli Strike Kills Three, Including Hezbollah Fighter

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Beirut: An Israeli strike in south Lebanon killed three people, including a Hezbollah fighter, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported on Wednesday.

According to the details, the border between Lebanon and Israel has seen escalating exchanges of fire, mainly between the Israeli army and Hamas ally Hezbollah, since the Israel-Hamas war began on October 7, raising fears of a broader conflagration.

“Enemy warplanes raided, before midnight, a house… in the centre of the town of Bint Jbeil,” around two kilometres from the border, killing a man, his brother, and his wife, NNA said.

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The dead have been identified as Ali Bazzi, his brother Ibrahim, and his wife Shourouk Hammoud and another family member who was wounded. Later Hezbollah announced that Ali Bazzi was one of its fighters.

A relative told AFP that Ibrahim Bazzi was an Australian citizen who had flown in for a visit about a week earlier.

The Australian government said two Australian citizens had been killed in the airstrike without identifying them by name.

Australia’s attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, urged Australians to leave Lebanon while commercial flights were still operating.

At the funeral procession in Bint Jbeil on Wednesday, an AFP photographer saw three coffins draped in Hezbollah flags.