The military said Thursday that it had eliminated two Hezbollah operatives in separate airstrikes in southern Lebanon in the span of two hours.
According to an Israel Defense Forces statement, one of the targets was a commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, who was killed in an airstrike in the Baraachit area on Thursday.
Shortly afterward, a second strike targeted and killed a member of the group’s observation unit in the Beit Lif area.
In statements carried by the official National News Agency, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said a man who was wounded “in an Israeli enemy drone strike targeting his bulldozer,” as well as another injured in a strike on a motorcycle, both died in the hospital.
The IDF also said that an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Tuesday killed the head of a currency exchange company, who the military said was involved in transferring funds from Iran to Hezbollah.
Haytham Abdullah Bakri had headed the Al-Sadiq currency exchange.
The military said Wednesday the company “serves as a funds storage and transfer mechanism for the Hezbollah terror organization, for funds originating from the Iranian Quds Force,” adding that Bakri operated with Hezbollah to transfer the funds.
“These funds are used by Hezbollah for military purposes, including purchasing weapons, means for manufacturing [weapons], and providing salaries to operatives, and are diverted for terrorist purposes and to finance the continuation of Hezbollah’s terrorist activities,” the IDF said.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said three people were killed in the strike, which hit a vehicle in south Lebanon’s Nabatieh district.
Israel has continued to carry out targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure since it signed a ceasefire with Lebanon in late November, alleging violations of the truce agreement.
According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.
The ceasefire agreement brought to an end more than a year of fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of open war in southern Lebanon late last year.
Hezbollah began attacking military outposts and communities in northern Israel unprovoked on October 8, 2023, in a show of support for fellow Iranian terror proxy Hamas in Gaza after it led invasion and onslaught in southern Israel a day earlier.
Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel was to withdraw from Lebanon, while maintaining the right to strike threats to its security.
Since then, the Lebanese state has been working methodically to dismantle the terror group’s infrastructure in the south of the country, and is estimated to have seized the majority of the terror group’s weapons stockpile in the same area.