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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
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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.

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Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
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Egypt Warns Against Dangers of Opening New War Front in Lebanon

A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher
A view shows smoke on the Lebanese side of the border with Israel, as people sit at a beach in Tyre, amid ongoing cross-border hostilities between Hezbollah and Israeli forces, southern Lebanon August 25, 2024. REUTERS/Aziz Taher

Egypt warned against the dangers of opening a new war front in Lebanon, the foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, and called for stability in the country as Hezbollah and Israel clashed again.

Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon early Sunday in what it said was a preemptive strike on Hezbollah, as the group said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month.

The heavy exchange of fire came amid mounting fears of an all-out war that could draw in the United States, Iran and its militant allies across the region.

The Israeli military said it struck because Hezbollah was planning to launch a heavy barrage of rockets and missiles toward Israel. Soon after, Hezbollah announced it had launched an attack on Israeli military positions as an initial response to the killing of Fouad Shukur, one of its founders, in an Israeli airstrike in Beirut last month.