Israel continued their airstrikes against southern Lebanon overnight Tuesday into Wednesday. At least one person was reported killed, in a strike against the village of Yater. Two drone missiles were fired at a motorcycle in the village, killing the person riding it.
The IDF presented the unnamed victim as a “senior Hezbollah commander,” and claiming that he was attempting to reestablish Hezbollah’s presence in Yater. They also claimed this was a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire by the person’s activity in that part of Lebanon.
Even though they didn’t even have a name for the person they killed, let alone evidence he was a senior commander, Israeli DM Israel Katz claimed Israel would consider the ceasefire “null and void” if Hezbollah doesn’t withdraw from the south of Lebanon.
It’s not clear what Israel’s version of null and void would look like, since they continue to attack Lebanon on a daily basis in spite of the ceasefire. On Monday evening they also sent ground troops across the border with bulldozers, and erected multiple road blockades.
The Lebanese Army reported Tuesday that they have dismantled two such blockades after the Israeli troops left. The blockades were in the area between the villages of Mays al-Jabal and Blida.
Other Israeli strikes were located elsewhere around southern Lebanon on Wednesday morning. One strike was reported along the outskirts of the town of Abbassiyah. No casualties were reported in that incident.
It’s not even clear what was being targeted in the Abbassiyah strike, but multiple missiles were fired around there. One of the missiles did not explode.
