Israeli Airstrike Kills Hezbollah Member in Lebanon

Shift in Israeli strategy towards targeted killings amid ongoing border clashes and international efforts to prevent full-on war.

An Israeli airstrike hit two vehicles near a Lebanese army checkpoint in south Lebanon, killing a Hezbollah member and wounding several other people, including civilians.
Hezbollah announced that one of its members, identified as Fadel Shaar, had been killed in the strike in the town of Kafra.
Israel appears to have shifted its strategy towards targeted killings of figures from Hezbollah and allied groups, sometimes hitting in areas relatively far from the border.
On Saturday, another strike near the Lebanese port city of Tyre killed two people in a car — one of them a Hezbollah commander — and two people in a nearby orchard.
Officials from the United States and Europe have engaged in a flurry of shuttle diplomacy in recent weeks between Israel and Lebanon, attempting to head off an escalation of the conflict into a full-on war on the Lebanese front.