Israeli drone strikes against southern Lebanon, centered around the town of Mays al-Jabal, have killed at least four people today, including two Syrian nationals. There were two separate strikes involved in the death toll.
The first strike targeted a pickup truck on the road from Blida to Mays al-Jabal, killing one Lebanese person within. The second strike hit Mays al-Jabal directly, hitting a vehicle and killing three people, one Lebanese and two Syrians. The second strike’s slain were labeled civilians by the Lebanese government. The identity of the first person has yet to be confirmed.
Unsurprisingly, the Israeli narrative is starkly different on these attacks, as they claimed one “Hezbollah operative” killed in each of the two strikes. They didn’t mention the other people killed in the process in their statement.
The Israeli story went that the first Lebanese person was with the Radwan Force, and that the second strike one of the people killed was involved in “surveillance” of the Israeli border at the time. There is no evidence that is the case for either, and Hezbollah has not confirmed losing any members to today’s airstrikes.
Israel carried out over 50 strikes against southern Lebanon last month, and claimed all were targeting Hezbollah infrastructure. The evidence points to a number of the people killed in those strikes actually being civilians.
Hezbollah infrastructure is likely not that easy to come by in the south anymore, as the Lebanese Army has reported they have already dismantled over 90% of the infrastructure of Hezbollah south of the Litani River.
