BEIRUT/JERUSALEM, Oct. 7 (Xinhua) -- Two Hezbollah members were killed, and another person was injured on Tuesday in two Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
The Emergency Operations Center affiliated with the Ministry of Public Health said in a statement that an Israeli drone strike on Deir Aames, in the Tyre district, left one person dead and another injured.
While a separate airstrike on a bulldozer in the Wadi Maryameen area, west of the village of Yater, resulted in one death, it added.
A Lebanese security source identified the victim in the Deir Aames strike as local Hezbollah "liaison" official Mahmoud Issa, and the person killed in Yater as Hezbollah member Ali Qaddouh. No further details were provided.
In a statement on Tuesday, the IDF said its Air Force struck and killed two Hezbollah militants in southern Lebanon.
According to the statement, one of the killed militants, Mahmoud Ali Issa, served as the local representative of Hezbollah in the nearby Kafra village and was responsible for the financial and military connections between Hezbollah and the village residents.
In addition, he allegedly operated to seize private assets for operational militant use, such as renting houses to store weapons and conduct surveillance activities.
The other militant, whose name was not disclosed, was killed while operating an engineering vehicle in the Zibqin area in southern Lebanon, the statement said, claiming that he was attempting to re-establish Hezbollah militant infrastructure sites.
The IDF said that the two militants' activities constituted violations of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.
A U.S.- and French-brokered ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in effect since Nov. 27, 2024, ending months of cross-border clashes that erupted after the Gaza war began.
However, despite the truce, the Israeli army has occasionally launched strikes inside Lebanon, claiming to target Hezbollah "threats," while maintaining troops at five positions along the Lebanese border after the deadline for a full withdrawal expired on Feb. 18. ■
