BEIRUT — At least four people were killed and eight others injured in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese media reported. The Israeli military said a reservist soldier was killed during clashes with Hezbollah along the Lebanon border. In a statement, the IDF identified the soldier as 47-year-old Warrant Officer Alexander Glovanyov, a driver in the Transport Center’s 6924th Battalion from Petah Tikva. According to Israeli officials, multiple drones were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, with one striking near Israeli forces and killing the soldier. Three Israeli soldiers were wounded by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon, Israeli Channel 12 reported on Monday. They were taken to a hospital to receive treatment, it said. The development came as the Israeli army continued strikes in Lebanon and fire exchanges with Hezbollah despite a ceasefire. At least 15 people were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to Lebanese official sources. At least one child was among those killed and several children were among those injured in the strikes, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the National News Agency. Since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed 2,846 people, injured 8,693 and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the population, according to the latest official figures. Meanwhile, former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thanisaid the war in the Middle East is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East region. In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera TV, the veteran diplomat offered a stark assessment of the region’s rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. He warned that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is the most perilous consequence of the recent war, cautioned against Netanyahu’s ambitions for a “Greater Israel” and called for the urgent establishment of a unified Gulf defense pact.BEIRUT — At least four people were killed and eight others injured in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon on Monday, the Lebanese media reported. The Israeli military said a reservist soldier was killed during clashes with Hezbollah along the Lebanon border. In a statement, the IDF identified the soldier as 47-year-old Warrant Officer Alexander Glovanyov, a driver in the Transport Center’s 6924th Battalion from Petah Tikva. According to Israeli officials, multiple drones were launched from Lebanon into northern Israel, with one striking near Israeli forces and killing the soldier. Three Israeli soldiers were wounded by an explosive drone in southern Lebanon, Israeli Channel 12 reported on Monday. They were taken to a hospital to receive treatment, it said. The development came as the Israeli army continued strikes in Lebanon and fire exchanges with Hezbollah despite a ceasefire. At least 15 people were killed in a series of Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Saturday, according to Lebanese official sources. At least one child was among those killed and several children were among those injured in the strikes, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the National News Agency. Since March 2, Israeli attacks in Lebanon have killed 2,846 people, injured 8,693 and displaced more than 1.6 million, about one-fifth of the population, according to the latest official figures. Meanwhile, former Qatari prime minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim Al Thanisaid the war in the Middle East is not the result of a sudden escalation but the culmination of a long-term Israeli agenda to violently reshape the Middle East region. In a wide-ranging interview with Al Jazeera TV, the veteran diplomat offered a stark assessment of the region’s rapidly shifting geopolitical landscape. He warned that the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz is the most perilous consequence of the recent war, cautioned against Netanyahu’s ambitions for a “Greater Israel” and called for the urgent establishment of a unified Gulf defense pact.
Four killed in Israeli attacks in southern Lebanon
