Southern Lebanon witnessed renewed Israeli drone strikes on Monday, killing two people and injuring one amid rising border tensions.
An Israeli drone targeted the town of Aitaroun, wounding one civilian. In Shamsiyeh, a village in West Beqaa’s Sohmor region, another strike hit an excavator, killing its operator. In a third attack, a guided missile fired by a drone struck a water tanker in Upper Nabatiyeh, leaving one person dead. The Emergency Operations Center of the Ministry of Public Health confirmed the toll, stating, “Israeli drone strikes on southern Lebanon today resulted in one person killed in Sohmor, one killed in Upper Nabatiyeh and one injured in Aitaroun.”
Having claimed responsibility for the airstrikes on Tuesday morning, the Israeli army’s Arabic-speaking spokesman, Avichay Adraee, confirmed the death of two Hezbollah artillery commanders.
In a statement posted on X in the morning, he said that Mohammad Abbas Sha’shou’, Hezbollah’s artillery chief in the Sohmor sector, had been killed. According to him, the victim had “drawn up rocket-firing plans against Kiryat Shmona and the Golan Heights” and had recently been working to “rebuild Hezbollah’s military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.”
Adraee also announced the elimination of Mohammad Hussein Yassin, an artillery commander in the Chqif area, who reportedly, according to the Israeli army, prepared “numerous attack plans against Galilee and Kiryat Shmona,” contributed to restoring the military capabilities of the pro-Iranian group, and transferred combat equipment south of the Litani.
Residents also reported drones flying at low altitude over Ghassaniyeh, Kawthariyet al-Siyad and Khartoum, with intensified activity earlier in the morning over Zahrani.
The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) reiterated its support for the Lebanese Army’s redeployment across southern Lebanon under UN Resolution 1701, stressing that Israel’s ongoing presence obstructs full deployment. A UNIFIL spokesperson said, “As long as the Israeli presence continues, the Lebanese Army cannot achieve full deployment in accordance with Resolution 1701.”
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