With Agency reports
An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed three people, including two journalists as cross-border clashes intensified between Israel and the armed group Hezbollah, Lebanon’s state-run news agency has reported.
Al-Mayadeen, a pan-Arab network based in Beirut, said in a statement that reporter Farah Omar and cameraman Rabih Al-Maamari were killed in an Israeli airstrike.
Another civilian was also killed in the strike, which took place about four miles from the Israeli border near the Lebanese town of Tayr Harfa, according to Lebanon’s state-run news agency.
A photograph taken at the scene showed bodies lying around what appeared to be a strike, and a camera on a tripod burning in the background.
Lebanon’s caretaker prime minister, Najib Mikati, blamed Israel for the killings, saying in a statement: “This attack proves once again that there are no limits to Israel’s crimes.”
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The Israeli military did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the strike. Earlier Tuesday, the military said that it had “struck three armed terrorist cells” operating along the Lebanese border, and that fighter jets had also struck Hezbollah targets.
Hezbollah, the powerful Lebanese militia, vowed to retaliate. “This aggression and the martyrdom of other citizens will not pass without a response,” it said in a statement.
Casualties are mounting on both sides of the border, which has grown increasingly volatile since Hamas which, like Hezbollah, is backed by Iran carried out its devastating terror attacks against Israel on Oct. 7.
Israel has responded with airstrikes and a ground invasion of Gaza, and Hezbollah has stepped up its cross-border attacks in solidarity with Hamas, raising fears of a wider regional conflict.
On Monday, Hezbollah claimed responsibility for a powerful cross-border rocket attack on an Israeli military base, prompting a sustained Israeli response that targeted Hezbollah positions, but also caused heavy damage to civilian homes, according to photographs.
