Israel continues to escalate its airstrikes against southern Lebanon on Thursday, with heavy strikes reported and locals saying they are among the heaviest seen since the ceasefire went into effect in late November.
Seven separate strikes were reported across the area, with at least one person killed in an airstrike in Rab El Thalathine, along the border. The IDF claimed that the person killed was Hezbollah, and with the Radwan Forces, marking the second time they said they killed a Radwan member just this week. Hezbollah has not confirmed either of their positions, nor any of the other people Israel has killed this week, most of whom were labeled Hezbollah in one way or another.
Lebanese state media reported a strike on the outskirts of the town, killing one, but likewise didn’t indicate the identity of who was slain. The other strikes spanned the region, and Israel presented them all as Hezbollah infrastructure, though no casualties have been confirmed elsewhere yet.
In the Jezzine area, three different strikes were reported on al-Mahmoudiyah, Sajad, and Mount Rehan Heights. Two more strikes hit near the towns of Souaneh and Qlaileh, in Tyre District. A final strike was reported against a house in Toul.
The Toul strike was noteworthy because Israel issued an evacuation warning for the area, claiming the house belonged to “the terrorist Hezbollah.” The was no indication anyone was in the house at the time.
In addition to all of these strikes, Israel claimed to have hit a “Hezbollah military site containing rocket launchers” in the Bekaa Valley, though there has been no confirmation what, if anything, was hit in that incident.
Israel’s statement on most of the strikes, claiming “Hezbollah infrastructure,” did not include any specificity about the targets, and most of the information is coming from Lebanese sources after sites got hit by drones or warplanes.
It continues a deadly week, including Wednesday in which are least three people were killed, and Tuesday when one was killed and nine wounded in an attack near a school.
