The Lebanese health ministry said on Saturday night that one person had been killed in an alleged Israeli strike in the south of the country, amid ramped-up IDF operations aimed at preventing the Hezbollah terror group from rearming.
There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces on the strike, which the Lebanese health ministry said had hit a car in the town of Mansouri, south of Tyre and just over 10 kilometers (six miles) from the Israeli border, and “resulted in the martyrdom of a citizen.”
A report from Lebanon’s National News Agency identified the deceased as Mohammed Shoueikh and said he was a school principal in Mansouri.
Reports of the strike in Mansouri came hours after the IDF said on Sunday evening that it had conducted several overnight raids in southern Lebanon as part of its efforts to prevent Hezbollah from rearming.
In one raid in the southern Lebanon town of Aitaroun, the military said reservists of the Alon Brigade demolished several buildings that had been used by Hezbollah, including recently to restore its capabilities in the area.
In another raid in the town of Ramyeh, the IDF said troops of the 300th “Baram” Regional Brigade seized and destroyed several weapons, including assault rifles.
A picture of the targeted car in the town of #Al-Mansouri pic.twitter.com/aycPBmdUf4
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Also in the past week, the Israeli Air Force carried out five strikes in Lebanon, killing three members of the terror group who, according to the IDF, were violating the terms of a year-old ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
The ceasefire last November sought to end more than a year of hostilities, including two months of all-out war, between Israel and Hezbollah.
Under the terms of the truce, Israel was to withdraw its forces from southern Lebanon, but has insisted on maintaining troops in five areas it deems to be of strategic importance.
It has also kept up regular strikes on what it says are Hezbollah targets breaching the ceasefire, arguing that under the terms of the ceasefire, it has the right to strike at threats to Israel’s security.
At the same time, Hezbollah was required to vacate southern Lebanon and disarm, while allowing the Lebanese Armed Forces to deploy across the region.
But Israeli officials say Hezbollah is accelerating efforts to re-arm from properties in the south and further north, and accuse the Lebanese army of failing to confront it.
Hezbollah was greatly weakened in its most recent war with Israel, which started when the terror group started firing missiles at the Jewish state on October 8, 2023, a day after the Hamas terror group, which then ruled Gaza, launched its own attack on Israel, triggering the war in the Strip.
After nearly a year of daily skirmishes, Israel launched massive airstrikes and a limited ground incursion into southern Lebanon in September 2024. A ceasefire was declared two months later, with Hezbollah left severely weakened.
