An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed four people Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, with Israeli sources saying the target was an elite Hezbollah member.
According to the health ministry, “the Israeli airstrike” in the Nabatiyeh district “killed four persons and wounded three in a preliminary toll.”
The official Lebanese National News Agency reported that the Israel Defense Forces hit a car “with a guided missile” at around 10:30 p.m.
According to Israeli defense sources, the target of the drone strike on the southern Lebanon town of Kfar Roummane was an operative in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force.
Hezbollah began attacking Israel on October 8, 2023, a day after fellow Iran-backed terror group Hamas invaded southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza. After nearly a year of cross-border fire, Israel launched an intensive campaign against the terror group in September 2024, massively degrading its forces and eliminating most of its top leadership. A ceasefire was declared in November of that year.
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The ceasefire required both Israel and Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon, to be replaced by the Lebanese armed forces. Israel has withdrawn from all but five strategic posts along the border, and regularly strikes what it says are Hezbollah’s attempts to rearm. Since the ceasefire, the IDF says it has killed over 330 Hezbollah operatives in strikes, hit hundreds of Hezbollah sites, and conducted over 1,000 raids and other small operations in southern Lebanon in response to violations by the terror group.
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Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes, Hezbollah is under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons, and the Lebanese army has drawn up a plan to disarm it. However, the latter has reportedly expended so much ordnance to blow up Hezbollah stockpiles that it has run out of explosives. Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran, has vowed not to lay down its arms.
But despite those efforts, Israel reportedly believes Hezbollah has managed to amass some new weapons, raising the possibility of renewed conflict. Meanwhile, Lebanon claims that Israel rejected its overture to begin talks last month on an IDF withdrawal.
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