One Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon’s Khiam

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
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One Killed in Israeli Airstrike in Lebanon’s Khiam

Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher
Smoke rises from the southern Lebanese town of Khiam, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, as pictured from Marjayoun, near the border with Israel, August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Karamallah Daher

An Israeli airstrike on a car in the southern Lebanese town of Khiam on Sunday left one person dead, Lebanon's state news agency and a security source said.

The Israeli military carried out strikes in southern Lebanon as Hezbollah fired a missile barrage across the border to avenge Fouad Shukr, one of its top commanders killed in an Israeli strike in Beirut’s southern suburbs last month.

Israel’s Home Front Command has raised the alert level in northern Israel and encouraged people to stay near bomb shelters.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that two people were wounded in the Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon. One of them, a 17-year-old Syrian, was hospitalized, civil defense officials said.



Israeli PM: Whoever Harms Us – We Harm Him

A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
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Israeli PM: Whoever Harms Us – We Harm Him

A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)
A man watches smoke billow after an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese village of Qsair on August 25, 2024. (Photo by AFP)

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday Israel would take all measures necessary to defend itself, after Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones at Israel in retaliation for the killing of a senior commander.

"We are determined to do everything possible to defend our country, to return the residents of the north safely to their homes and to continue to uphold a simple rule: Whoever harms us – we harm him," he said in a statement.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah, as the group said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of Fouad Shukr, one of its founders, in Beirut’s southern suburbs last month.

Lt. Col. Nadav Shoshani, an Israeli military spokesman, said around 100 Israeli aircraft took part in Sunday’s strikes.

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared a “special situation on the home front.”