An Israeli drone strike killed a Hezbollah member on Monday morning in the southern Lebanese town of Hannin, in the Bint Jbeil district.
The strike eliminated Mohammad Tahsin Hassan Qashqash after targeting two vehicles parked outside his home with multiple missiles. According to local reports, Qashqash was preparing to start a van parked in front of his house, next to his four-wheel-drive vehicle, to transport students to school when the drone fired several missiles. Both vehicles were set ablaze in the attack.
Civil defense teams rushed to the scene, extinguished the fire, and transferred Qashqash’s body to the Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil.
Shortly after the strike, the Israeli army confirmed it had targeted a Hezbollah member in the Hannin area of southern Lebanon.
In a parallel development at dawn Monday, an Israeli force reportedly advanced into the outskirts of the towns of Aita al-Shaab and Ramya, where it allegedly planted explosives inside a house and detonated it, completely destroying the structure.
Separately, the Lebanese Army (LAF) announced that it had detonated an Israeli drone that had crashed on the outskirts of Houla in the Marjeyoun district. In a statement, the LAF said the drone had gone down on Sunday and was carrying explosives.
The incidents follow a deadly Israeli raid on Sunday afternoon in the Majdal Anjar border area of the Beqaa governorate. Four people traveling in a taxi toward the Syrian border were killed in the strike.
The Israeli army later declared it had targeted “militants affiliated with the Islamic Jihad movement in the Majdal Anjar area.” Reports indicated that all four occupants of the vehicle were killed, including a Syrian national identified as Khaled Muhammad al-Ahmad.
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