An Israeli drone strike Sunday has killed one person and wounded three others in southern Lebanon. The strike targeted a vehicle in the Nabatieh District, in the town of Ebba. There are no details about who was killed in the strike.
As usual, the IDF issued a statement claiming they had targeted a “Hezbollah operative” in the area, but as usual they offered no evidence that this was actually the case. Local reports suggested at least two of the wounded were children.
The IDF also claimed a second strike in the area of Harouf, targeting a second “Hezbollah operative,” though no details have yet emerged on what happened in that strike, nor any evidence that target had anything to do with Hezbollah either.
Southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh Governorate during the ceasefire ©MSF
A third IDF strike was reported near Sidon, targeting what the IDF claimed were “Hezbollah engineering vehicles” that constituted a violation of the ceasefire. Though reportedly some heavy machines were reportedly targeted in the area, no evidence was offered that they were Hezbollah’s vehicles nor, if they in fact were, that the presents of industrial machinery was any sort of ceasefire violation that far north.
The primary ceasefire violation in all of these strikes, at any rate, was Israel actively firing on Lebanese territory well over a year after the ceasefire was put in place. Israel has fired over 1,000 airstrikes on Lebanon since the deal went into effect, but Israel never withdrew from Lebanese territory, as required, nor has Hezbollah launched a single strike on Israel in that period.
Those Israeli strikes have killed hundreds of people, and while the IDF maintains they’re all high-ranking Hezbollah figures, the UN has confirmed a minimum of 127 of them to be civilians.
