BEIRUT, May 8 (Xinhua) -- Three members of The Al-Quds Brigades, the armed wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement, were killed, and three civilians were injured on Wednesday in an Israeli airstrike on a Lebanese southern village, Lebanese military sources told Xinhua.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said that an Israeli warplane destroyed with two air-to-surface missiles a three-story house at the western edge of the southern village of Khiam.
Members of the civil defense, the Islamic Health Organization, and the Islamic Message Scout Association rushed to the targeted house and worked to remove the rubble and transported the casualties to the Marjeyoun Governmental Hospital in the border area in southern Lebanon.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said it attacked several Israeli sites in retaliation to Israel's attacks against villages and civilian homes in southern Lebanon.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border escalated on Oct. 8, 2023, following a barrage of rockets launched by Hezbollah toward Israel in solidarity with Hamas's attack on Israel the day before. Israel then retaliated by firing heavy artillery toward southeastern Lebanon. ■
