Israel and Lebanon's Hezbollah, a Hamas ally, have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire following the Palestinian group's October 7 attack.
Smoke billows during an Israeli strike on the southern Lebanese border village of Adaisseh on May 8, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border tensions as fighting continues between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. Rabih DAHER / AFP)Lebanese state media said an Israeli strike in south Lebanon on Friday killed a first responder from a rescue group affiliated with a Hezbollah-allied movement and a telecoms technician doing maintenance work.
Workers from MTC Touch and the Ogero telecom provider were carrying out “maintenance on the transmission poles”, the NNA said, adding they had sought permission from the UN peacekeeping mission in Lebanon, or UNIFIL. A source within MTC Touch said the strike hit a team that had been doing maintenance work in Tayr Haifa.
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