Illustrative image. (Israeli Defense Forces)
The Israel Defense Force (IDF) announced on May 17 that it had killed a Hezbollah commander in a drone strike in southern Lebanon.
The commander was targeted on a road near the town of Mazraat Jemjim. He was the head of Hezbollah’s forces in the Beaufort Castle area, the military said. Earlier this month, a series of Israeli strikes hit what was described as a major Hezbollah facility near the castle.
According to the IDF, the slain Hezbollah commander was involved in restoring the group’s capabilities in the Beaufort Castle area.
“Restoring terror infrastructure and the activity there constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the military added.
The IDF has launched hundreds of strikes against targets of Hezbollah in southern Lebanon and other parts of the country, including the capital Beirut, since the group accepted a ceasefire that was proposed by the United States last November.
In recent days, Israel escalated its strikes. On May 13, two members of Hezbollah were killed in separate drone strikes on southern Lebanon. On May 14, a commander of the group was killed by a strike in the same region. On May 15, another member of the group was killed there.
The IDF has also ignored the February 18 time limit set by the agreement to withdraw from southern Lebanon by keeping its troops at five strategic posts there.
Hezbollah was deeply weakened by the last confrontation with the IDF, which broke out as a result of the war in the Gaza Strip. The group has so far refrained from responding to Israel’s repeated strikes, in what appears to be an attempt to spare Lebanon another confrontation.
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