Israeli Airstrike Reportedly Hits Truck in Lebanon Carrying Military Equipment

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
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Israeli Airstrike Reportedly Hits Truck in Lebanon Carrying Military Equipment

A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
A picture shows a house damaged in an Israeli strike in the southern Lebanese village of Khiam on August 26, 2024. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

An Israeli airstrike hit a pickup truck traveling in northeast Lebanon late on Tuesday, two security sources told Reuters, with one of the sources saying it carried military equipment.

The two sources said the strike hit a pickup near Chaat, a remote area of Lebanon near the Syrian border, but that the driver survived.

One of the sources said it was likely the military equipment being transported was a damaged rocket launcher on the way to be repaired.

Two days earlier, Hezbollah and the Israeli military engaged in one of the most intense exchanges of fire between them over the last 10 months amid fears that Israel's war in Gaza would become a wider regional conflict.

Hezbollah fired drones and rockets at Israel early on Sunday to avenge a top military commander killed by Israel last month.

Israel has said its strikes on Lebanon on Sunday destroyed Hezbollah rocket launch sites and prevented a wider attack by the group. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the attack had gone as planned and that Israeli strikes afterwards had damaged some Hezbollah launch sites.



Israeli Forces Launch Strikes Across Gaza, Push Tanks into Central Khan Younis 

Palestinians search for survivors under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike destroyed several homes in Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians search for survivors under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike destroyed several homes in Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
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Israeli Forces Launch Strikes Across Gaza, Push Tanks into Central Khan Younis 

Palestinians search for survivors under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike destroyed several homes in Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 August 2024. (EPA)
Palestinians search for survivors under the rubble after an Israeli airstrike destroyed several homes in Khan Younis camp in the southern Gaza Strip, 27 August 2024. (EPA)

Israeli forces sent tanks deeper into Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip and launched strikes across the enclave as they battled Hamas-led fighters, killing at least 34 Palestinians on Wednesday, according to medics.

Residents of Khan Younis said Israeli tanks made a surprise advance into the center of the city, and the military ordered evacuations in the east, forcing many families to run for safety, while others were trapped at home.

Palestinian health officials said the Israeli strikes in Khan Younis killed at least 11 people.

In the central city of Deir Al-Balah, where at least a million people were sheltering, an Israeli airstrike killed eight Palestinians near a school housing displaced families, medics said.

In Nuseirat, in the central Gaza Strip, journalist Mohammed Abed-Rabbo was killed along with his sister in an Israeli attack on their house, medics said. Gaza's Hamas-run government media office said Abed-Rabbo's death raised the number of Palestinian journalists killed by Israeli fire to 172 since Oct. 7.

In recent days, Israel has issued several evacuation orders across Gaza, the most since the beginning of the nearly 11-month-old war, prompting an outcry from Palestinians, the United Nations, and relief officials over the shrinking of humanitarian zones and the absence of safe areas.

The Israeli military said it ordered the evacuation in areas where Hamas and other militants staged attacks, including rocket firing into Israel.

The armed wings of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad said fighters were engaged in clashes with Israeli forces in different areas across the territory, firing anti-tank rockets and mortar fire.

More than 40,500 Palestinians have been killed in the war, according to Gaza's health ministry. The crowded enclave has been laid to waste. Most of its 2.3 million people have been displaced multiple times and face acute shortages of food and medicine, humanitarian agencies say.