Head of Public Relations of the the Islamic group in Lebanon (Jamaa Islamia), Sheikh Mohammad Ghasem Jarrar, was killed last night in the town of Shebaa in Hasbayya province, south Lebanon.

Iran Press/Middle EastUnidentified individuals shot him to death at the door of the dispensary he ran in the village.

Security forces started their probe, while the Lebanese army cordoned off the crime scene and began search for the culprits who had fled to an unknown destination, Lebanon's National News Agency reported on Monday.

In a statement, the Islamic group in Lebanon celebrated the martyrdom of Sheikh Mohammed Qasim Jarrar, the group's public relations officer in Hasbaya and Marjayoun, and the Shabaa district officer.

The statement said: "Sheikh Muhammad Jarrar, unwavering resistance to tenacity in his country and providing social, medical and medical services to all the needy, needy and needy, to every widow and child in her area or her displaced brothers."

According to Lebanon24 news website, one of the officials of the Islamic Group said: "Jarrar was threatened to death a couple of times recently and today these threats are become real."

"We can neither blame anyone special for the crime for now nor the hands of Israeli regime are clean in such crimes; The enemy that has been occupying some of our land," he added.

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