The Israeli raid that targeted a Hamas leader resulted in the death of a Syrian citizen in the town of Al-Suwairi in the Western Bekaa (Anadolu Agency)
A Lebanese security source said on Monday that a leader in the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) survived yesterday an Israeli drone strike on the town of Al-Suwairi in the western Bekaa, eastern Lebanon, near the border with Syria.
A Syrian citizen was killed in the raid, who was working in a store in this town, which is 5 kilometers from the border between Lebanon and Syria, according to the Lebanese News Agency.
The Lebanese security source explained that the raid was targeting a Hamas leader who was passing on the road where the strike occurred, but he survived it.
This is the first time that the Israeli army has targeted this area since the beginning of the confrontations with Hezbollah last October, noting that it recently carried out several raids on the city of Baalbek, which is also located in the Bekaa, including 5 raids last Saturday evening.
On February 10, Hamas leader Basil Saleh survived an Israeli bombing that targeted his car in the town of Jadra, which is located 40 kilometers from the Lebanese-Israeli border.
On January 2, Israel assassinated Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, along with others, including two leaders in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, the movement’s military wing, in a raid on a building in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
It is noteworthy that the Al-Qassam Brigades carried out several operations against Israel from Lebanon since it launched the Battle of Al-Aqsa Flood on the seventh of last October.
Source: French