The Israeli Air Force on Wednesday killed two terrorists and struck a facility in Lebanon that violated the terms of the ceasefire between Israel and the Shi’ite terrorist group, according to the Israel Defense Forces.
The terrorists were killed within the space of two hours, the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said, in separate aerial strikes. The IDF identified one of the terrorists as Abd al-Manaam Musa Suwaydan, a Hezbollah operative in the Yatar Municipality in Southern Lebanon.
His role included liaising for Hezbollah with the Yatar villagers on financial and military issues, according to the military. “The terrorist acted to take over private properties for terror purposes, such as renting houses for storing combat equipment and surveillance,” the statement continued.
In parallel, “guided by the 210th Division, the IDF struck and eliminated a terrorist who operated in the Lebanese Brigades terror organization, led by Hezbollah,” the statement said. It did not name the individual.
The strikes followed another on a Hezbollah facility “for producing means that assist in rehabilitating the Hezbollah terror organization and advancing terror plots,” according to the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit. That activity “constitutes a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”
On Wednesday night, the IDF announced that it had struck a Hezbollah site in the Ansariyah area of Southern Lebanon “which stored engineering vehicles intended to rebuild the terrorist organization’s capabilities and support its terrorist activity.” Additionally, the IDF hit a Hezbollah rocket launcher in the area of Al-Jibbain.
On Sunday, Israel carried out two strikes in the Nabatieh area, in which a Hezbollah terrorist was killed.
On Nov. 27, a ceasefire went into effect that required Hezbollah to withdraw north of the Litani River. Israel and Hezbollah had maintained a tense ceasefire in Lebanon from the end of the Second Lebanon War in 2006 until Oct. 8, 2023, when the Iranian-backed terrorist organization began firing rockets into Israel in solidarity with Hamas’s attack on Israel the previous day. Israel limited its response to Hezbollah’s attacks and evacuated some 60,000 residents from the border area to reduce casualties.
Last September, Israel escalated its response, killing the terrorist group’s former senior member, Hassan Nasrallah, and several other high-level leaders. Hezbollah’s command level and weapons stockpiles were decimated during nearly a year of fighting.
According to Tel Aviv University’s Institute of National Security Studies, Israel has killed about 4,150 Hezbollah terrorists since Oct. 8, 2023, in more than 15,000 strikes. Some 133 Israelis were killed in the war with Hezbollah, many of them by the more than 4,000 rockets the terrorist group launched into Israel.
