Source: The son of the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc was killed by Israeli bombing in southern Lebanon

The son of the head of the Hezbollah parliamentary bloc, MP Muhammad Raad, was killed on Wednesday following an Israeli shelling that targeted a house in southern Lebanon where he was staying with some party members, a woman said. source. close to the family, he told Agence France-Presse.

The source, who declined to mention his name, said: “Abbas Raad, son of MP Muhammad Raad, was martyred together with a number of party members” following an Israeli raid on a house in the village of Beit Yahoun.

Hezbollah did not immediately release any official statement.

For its part, the official Lebanese news agency reported that four people were killed and a fifth were injured following “the air attack launched by the Israeli enemy with warplanes” on the house, without specifying their identities.

The border region in southern Lebanon has witnessed a worsening military escalation between Israel and Hezbollah since the Hamas movement launched an unprecedented attack on the Jewish state on October 7, which responded with devastating bombings and a ground operation in the besieged Gaza Strip.

Since the cross-border escalation began, more than 100 people have been killed in Lebanon, most of them Hezbollah fighters, and 14 civilians, including three journalists, according to a tally prepared by Agence France-Presse. Israeli authorities, for their part, reported that nine people were killed, including three civilians.

The Israeli raid on Beit Yahoun occurred a few hours after the announcement that an agreement had been reached between Israel and Hamas, according to which the movement would release 50 hostages of those it had arrested during the attack on Israel, which in turn would released Palestinian prisoners. , provided that a four-day truce in the Gaza Strip came into force on the first day – a real step towards calm after more than six weeks of war.