ISRAEL bombed Lebanon today, killing a senior Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) official, his bodyguard and at least four others.

Mohammed Wishah was a member of the central committee of the PFLP, which is the second-largest faction in the Palestine Liberation Organisation — the internationally recognised representative of the Palestinians — after Fatah. His bodyguard was called Mufid Hussein.

PFLP official Marwan Abdel-Al said: “We have lost two of the most loyal comrades who gave their precious souls to freedom.”

Lebanon’s National News Agency said the air raid had killed six people in total and wounded 10.

An Israeli drone also killed a journalist, Mohammed Shehadeh, in his car in southern Lebanon.

On Thursday night, the country’s cabinet agreed to disarm Hezbollah, the Shi’ite militia that has played the main role in resisting Israeli aggression in Lebanon, but only after Hezbollah ministers and some allies had walked out in protest.

Disarming Hezbollah is part of a US proposal that would supposedly include an end to Israel’s regular bombing of Lebanon, but it is hard to see how the Lebanese government could carry it out.

Hezbollah political council deputy chief Mahmoud Komati said that even discussing it was “a march to humiliation,” telling Al Jazeera: “There is no state or government in the world that confronts the resistance in its own territory while the enemy is still there occupying the land and carrying out aggressions against Lebanon daily.”

The group has traditionally been seen as more powerful and better equipped than the Lebanese army, but its strength is believed to have been much reduced by Israeli military action over the past two years.