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Lebanon security source says 4 killed in alleged Israeli strike are Hezbollah fighters
As Lebanon’s health ministry confirms that four people have been killed in an alleged Israeli strike on the south, a security source tells AFP the dead are all Hezbollah fighters.
“Following the Israeli enemy raid on a house in the town of Maifadoun… four people were killed,” the ministry says in a statement. Requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters, the security source says “they were all Hezbollah fighters.”
There has been no Israeli statement on the strike.