Official of Islamic Group killed in Israeli airstrike in E. Lebanon

BEIRUT, Sept. 29 (Xinhua) — Mohammad Dahrouj, an official of the Islamic Group, was killed on Sunday in an Israel airstrike on a residential apartment in eastern Lebanon’s Joub Jannine area, according to Lebanese military sources.
The sources, who spoke anonymously, said an Israeli warplane targeted the apartment with two air-to-ground missiles, killing Dahrouj.
The Lebanese Red Cross personnel had transferred his body to a hospital in Joub Jannine.
The Lebanese Civil Defense also confirmed that one person was killed as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Joub Jannine.
“Elements of the Civil Defense extinguished a fire that broke out as a result of an Israeli airstrike that targeted a residential apartment in Joub Jannine,” it said in a statement.
The Islamic Group is an Islamic political organization with a military wing called the al-Fajr Forces, which has recently carried out military operations against the Israeli army.
The Islamic Group has not yet issued any comment on the incident. ■