IDF eliminates senior Hezbollah commander in Southern Lebanon strike

The Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday that it had “struck and eliminated” a senior Hezbollah operative who commanded a terrorist base in the village of Mansouri in the Tyre district of Southern Lebanon.

Since Hezbollah joined the war against the Jewish state on Oct. 8, 2023, the unnamed terror commander “planned numerous terrorist attacks against the State of Israel, was responsible for attempts to re-establish the Mansouri complex and facilitated the transfer of weapons,” it said.

Video footage of the airstrike published by the Israeli military showed that the Hezbollah operative was targeted while traveling in a vehicle.

On Monday, the IDF eliminated a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan force in the Houla area of Southern Lebanon, the military announced.

The attack came two days after the IDF killed a Hezbollah commander in the area of Mazraat Jemjim, north of Tyre in southwestern Lebanon. He was involved in rebuilding terrorist infrastructure, the IDF stated.

“The rebuilding of terrorist infrastructure and related activity constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the military said.

The situation in Lebanon remains volatile following the end of the truce with Beirut on Feb. 18. The deal took effect on Nov. 27 and ended more than a year of war, after Hezbollah began attacks on the Jewish state one day after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.

Although Jerusalem has withdrawn most of its ground forces since the war ended, it still controls five strategic positions in Southern Lebanon. Israeli officials have stated that the IDF will retain control of these areas until the Lebanese army demonstrates it can maintain security there.