A car in flames in Baaouerta, in Mount Lebanon, after an Israeli strike, on April 22, 2025. Screenshot from a video obtained by Mountasser Abdallah.
A military leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, a Lebanese party derived from the Muslim Brotherhood and allied with Hamas, was killed Tuesday morning in an Israeli drone strike in Baaouerta (Aley), about 20 kilometers south of Beirut, according to information from our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah and a security source at AFP.
A source within al-Jamaa al-Islamiya confirmed to L'Orient Today that the victim is Sheikh Hussein Atoui, originally from Hebbariyeh, in the Hasbaya district in southern Lebanon, and a professor at the Lebanese University. Atoui had already been targeted by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon several months ago and had survived that attack.
According to the Civil Defense, "an Israeli drone targeted a car" near the coastal town of Damour, and rescuers extricated a dead body from the vehicle.
A military leader of al-Jamaa al-Islamiya, a Lebanese party derived from the Muslim Brotherhood and allied with Hamas, was killed Tuesday morning in an Israeli drone strike in Baaouerta (Aley), about 20 kilometers south of Beirut, according to information from our correspondent Mountasser Abdallah and a security source at AFP.A source within al-Jamaa al-Islamiya confirmed to L'Orient Today that the victim is Sheikh Hussein Atoui, originally from Hebbariyeh, in the Hasbaya district in southern Lebanon, and a professor at the Lebanese University. Atoui had already been targeted by an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon several months ago and had survived that attack.According to the Civil Defense, "an Israeli drone targeted a car" near the coastal town of Damour, and rescuers extricated a dead body from the vehicle....
