Israel has carried out multiple airstrikes against towns and villages across southern Lebanon today, as well as at least four strikes against border crossings between Syria and Lebanon in the area around Hermel.
The IDF had placed evacuation notices on several areas in the Lebanese towns of Kharayeb and Ansar in the morning, claiming there were buildings in the area that amounted to “Hezbollah infrastructure” though providing no evidence that this was actually the case.
Airstrikes were reported against the area shortly thereafter, hitting those areas and others. An Israeli strike also targeted a vehicle in the town of Zahrani, killing a person who has yet to be identified. A second strike against Bazuriyeh, again targeting a vehicle and killing one person.
Southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh Governorate during the ceasefire ©MSF
Though neither has been identified, the IDF claimed those strikes were targeting Hezbollah members. Here again, no evidence was offered as to the identities of either of the people they killed, though it is not unusual for Israel to attack vehicles in southern Lebanon and declare the drives Hezbollah.
The IDF claimed that the attacks on the border posts near Hermel was similarly Hezbollah-related, claiming that Hezbollah was using those border crossings to smuggle weapons into Lebanon.
IDF officials further suggested other strikes in eastern Lebanon had targeted Hezbollah “weapon depots,” though given how many such strikes with exact same pretexts Israel has carried out in the last year, it’s almost unthinkable that any such depots remained unstruck at this point.
