UPDATED: Lebanese protester dies after being shot by IOF at border

Palestine

Published: 2021-05-14 16:14

Last Updated: 2024-04-26 14:03


Source: Reuters
Source: Reuters

Friday, a Lebanese security source said that one Lebanese protester died after being shot by the IOF at the Lebanon-Israeli Occupation border. 

The protester was identified as 21-year-old Mohammad Tahhan. Hezbollah said Tahhan was a fighter with the group. 

Another protester was wounded. 

Earlier Friday, more than a dozen protesters attempted to cross the barbed wire separating southern Lebanon from the border settlement of al-Mutla in the Israeli Occupation. The IOF immediately shot several protesters. 

According to an AFP photographer, some protesters, while raising the Palestinian flag and yellow Hezbollah banners, lit a fire in the grass that reached the border. 

The injured were transferred to a nearby hospital for treatment, while the army and security forces prevented the other protesters from advancing towards the barbed wire.

The Israeli army announced that its tanks had directed "warning shots at a number of rioters who crossed Lebanon into Israeli territory," adding that they "tampered with the fence and set fire to the area before retreating back into Lebanon."

Late Thursday night, several rockets were fired from south Lebanon into the Israeli Occupation amid escalating violence from the Israeli Occupation in recent weeks. 

The rockets landed in the sea, and no casualties were reported.