Israeli Airstrike Kills Senior Hezbollah Radwan Force Commander, Artillery Operative

An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon killed a senior commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force, the Israeli military said Sunday.

Israeli army spokesperson Avichay Adraee announced that an Israeli Air Force aircraft targeted the area of Dhibaal, killing Mohammad Haydar Abboud, a senior operative in the Radwan Force, along with another member affiliated with the group’s artillery unit.

“The two terrorists were working to rebuild terrorist infrastructure for the Radwan Force and were advancing plans to carry out attacks against Israeli forces and the State of Israel,” Adraee said in a statement, adding that their actions “constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

Adraee emphasized that the Israeli army “will continue to act to eliminate any threat to the State of Israel.”

Meanwhile, Lebanese Civil Defense teams and local associations battled fires in the Hamoul area near Naqoura, after an Israeli drone reportedly dropped an incendiary bomb on the region. Another fire broke out in the Mariamin Valley, on the outskirts of the town of Yater, following a similar drone-launched incendiary device that ignited forested terrain.

Separately, residents in the southern Lebanese town of Kfarkila reported that Israeli aircraft dropped leaflets over the area, though their contents were not immediately disclosed.