Israel says it killed Hamas official in southern Lebanon

The Israel occupation forces claimed today that they had killed a Hamas leader in southern Lebanon’s Sidon area, Reuters has reported. Muhammad Shaheen was the head of operations for Hamas in Lebanon and had recently been involved in promoting “terrorist plots” with Iranian direction and funding, operating from Lebanese territory against Israeli citizens said the occupation army.

An Israeli air strike on a car in Lebanon’s southern port city of Sidon targeted an official in the Palestinian resistance movement, said two Lebanese security sources. Lebanon’s state news agency said that rescuers had removed one body from the car but did not identify the victim.

The Israeli military has been carrying out air strikes against members of Hamas, allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah and other factions in Lebanon, in parallel with the Gaza genocide against the Palestinians. The resistance groups are alleged to have launched rockets, drones and artillery attacks across the border into northern Israel.

Under a truce brokered by Washington in November, Israeli troops were granted 60 days to withdraw from southern Lebanon where they had waged a ground offensive against fighters from Iran-backed Hezbollah since early October. That deadline was later extended to 18 February, but Israel’s military requested that it keep troops in five posts in southern Lebanon, sources told Reuters last week.

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