Israel continued its attacks against various sites in southern Lebanon today, with at least four different airstrikes being reported overall. One person has been confirmed killed according to the Lebanon Health Ministry.
The fatal strike was against a bulldozer traveling on the road between Yohmor and Arnoun. The area is, like most of southern Lebanon, agriculture heavy, and a lot of the bulldozers are being used to clear the land damaged by Israel’s invasion last year. It’s not clear what this particular bulldozer was doing, but Israel has often targeted bulldozers operating anywhere within southern Lebanon.
The border village of Houla was targeted multiple times by missiles from an Israeli helicopter that was still inside Israeli airspace at the time. The attacks destroyed a room set up for local cooperative organization, and also hit and damaged multiple prefab homes belong to an unnamed NGO.
Further north, a village of Aadaysit also had a room targeted, while percussion bombs were dropped by Israeli drones against a house in Kfar Kela and against a school in the town of Dhayra.
The Dhayra strike is noteworthy because the school had already been destroyed, and the percussion bombs were dropped into the wreckage. Israel has as of yet not commented on any of today’s strikes, and provided no justification for any of them in the context of the ongoing ceasefire.
On Wednesday, Israel did comment on one of their strikes, claiming it had killed a Hezbollah commander, and also claimed Hezbollah operative was slain in their Tuesday strike. There has as of yet been no confirmation of the identity of either of those slain people, though when Israel comments at all on their strikes, it almost always claims the person they killed to be a Hezbollah figure of one form or another.
Though the claims of Hezbollah being a target seem aimed at criticisms of their thousands of violations of the ceasefire, the terms of the ceasefire still don’t give Israel permission to carry out such strikes, though enforcement has so far been non-existent despite repeatedly Lebanese petitions for the international community to stop these unilateral strikes.
