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Reports: IDF troops raid southern Lebanon town before dawn, kill municipal employee
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Lebanese media reports that Israeli soldiers raided the southern Lebanon town of Blida before dawn and killed a municipal employee.
According to the official National News Agency, IDF troops entered Blida at around 1:30 a.m. with several military vehicles, and stormed the town’s municipal building.
At the municipality, the troops killed Ibrahim Salameh, an employee who had been staying there, the report says.
The Israeli soldiers withdrew at around 4 a.m., and the Lebanese army later entered the building and recovered the body of the municipal worker, NNA adds.
The IDF has not commented on the incident.
من مكان تصفية موظف بلدية بليدا الشهيد ابراهيم سلامة على ايدي قوة من الإحتلال التي توغلت فجر اليوم الى مركز البلدية بعمق اكثر من الف متر داخل الأراضي اللبنانية. pic.twitter.com/z5BZzjKcGl
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