Israeli strikes on Monday killed three Hezbollah operatives in southern Lebanon, according to the Israel Defense Forces, including a former presenter on a television station affiliated with the terror organization.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed fatalities in the separate strikes, with one person killed in the coastal city of Tyre and two later in Kfar Rumman near Nabatieh.
The IDF identified the target of the strike in Tyre as Ali Nour a-Din, who it said headed an artillery team based out of a southern Lebanese village. No further details were immediately given by the military on the second strike.
According to the IDF, Nour a-Din advanced numerous attacks on Israel during the 2023-2024 war, and recently worked to restore Hezbollah’s rocket capabilities in southern Lebanon.
“The terrorist’s activities constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the military aded.
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Hezbollah’s al-Manar identified as Nour a-Din having “previously worked at al-Manar channel as a presenter of religious programs, while Hezbollah’s media office said in a statement that he was also the imam of al-Hawsh, in the suburbs of Tyre. The Iran-backed terrorist group denounced the killing as a “treacherous assassination.”
Lebanese Information Minister Paul Morcos also condemned the strike, saying Israeli attacks “do not spare press and media personnel.”
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Israel and Lebanon agreed to a US-brokered ceasefire in November 2024, ending more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah that had culminated in Israeli strikes and a ground offensive that severely weakened the terror group. Since then, the sides have traded accusations over violations, with Israel insisting that Hezbollah has worked to rearm itself.
Since the ceasefire, the IDF has killed around 400 operatives and struck hundreds of additional Hezbollah-linked targets. The IDF has repeatedly asserted that the activity at the targeted sites constitutes a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
The conflict began on October 8, 2023, when Hezbollah started firing rockets and drones at northern Israel, one day after its fellow Iran-backed terror group Hamas launched a shock assault on southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza.
Agencies and Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.
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