Israel has carried out multiple deadly drone strikes against southern Lebanon today, killing at least three people, two of whom the IDF identified as “top” Hezbollah commanders in keeping with their tendency to posthumously promote the people they killed as not just Hezbollah, but really important Hezbollah members.
Overnight, a strike on Barish killed a man named Yassin Issauddin, who the IDF claimed was the head of Hezbollah’s “rocket artillery” force. They said his presence in Barish was a “blatant violation” of the ceasefire.
Hezbollah hasn’t confirmed that Issauddin was a member, let alone a top commander. It is not clear, if indeed he was in such a role, what he was even doing, since Hezbollah hasn’t fired a single rocket at Israel since the ceasefire.
Israel, by contrast, has fired thousands of strikes against Lebanon, which one might characterize as “blatant violations” themselves, though somehow the US and French officials charged with enforcing the ceasefire never seem to hold them to account for these.
Another strike was reported in Nabatieh, killing a man identified as Muhammad Ahmed Kharis, whom the IDF said was the anti-tank commander for Hezbollah’s Shebaa unit. The IDF statement didn’t allege Kharis has done anything in awhile, though they did say he “promoted anti-tank firing” against northern Israel in April of 2024, which is not only before the ceasefire, but before the war that led to the ceasefire.
A third strike targeted that village of Houla, along the border, hitting a car and killing a person. So far the person has not been identified, though the IDF did present him as a Hezbollah “operative” who was trying to restore infrastructure.
