Israel carried out multiple drone strikes against southern Lebanon today, killing two people and wounding two others. Both of the slain were claimed by the IDF to have been members of Hezbollah.
The first strike was in the area near Kfour, killing one and wounding two. About an hour later, a second strike hit a truck near Naqoura, killing another person. The IDF issued a statement later and released video of both strikes.
The statement claimed that the slain in Kfour was “Hassan Ahmad Sabra, a commander in the naval unit of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force.” There was no evidence provided that this was the case, and indeed there are plenty of reasons to doubt it, not least that Hezbollah effectively doesn’t have a navy, and Kfour isn’t particularly close to the coast.
On the Naqoura strike, the IDF claimed the truck driver was a Hezbollah operative restoring the group’s operational capacity there. They added that both peoples’ presence in southern Lebanon amounted to a violation of the ceasefire.
Israel has been escalated airstrikes in Lebanon of late, and these are just the latest strikes in a particularly deadly week. On Tuesday, they attacked multiple sites in Bekaa Valley, including refugee housing full of Syrians, claiming they were Hezbollah training sites and weapon warehouses. 12 people were killed, mostly Syrians.
Since the ceasefire went into effect in November, Israel has carried out thousands of strikes against Lebanese territory, killing hundreds of additional people. When they comment, virtually everybody is claimed to be a high-level Hezbollah member, even though there have been next to none conclusively identified as actually a member at all.
Hezbollah has not carried out a single strike against Israel since the ceasefire went into effect. Talks to disarm Hezbollah are still ongoing though they insist they won’t disarm unless Israel stops occupying Lebanese soil and stops carrying out drone strikes against Lebanese territory.
