BEIRUT, June 19 (Xinhua) -- Two Hezbollah military commanders and a third person were killed overnight and early Thursday in Israeli drone strikes targeting motorcycles deep inside southern Lebanon, official and security sources said.
Lebanon's official National News Agency reported that an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle with a guided missile shortly after midnight at the Kfarjouz roundabout in the city of Nabatieh.
The agency said the strike killed two people -- one from Nabatieh and another from Khiam, a town in southeastern Lebanon.
A Lebanese security source told Xinhua that Mohammad Khreis, a Hezbollah military commander, was among those killed at the Kfarjouz roundabout. The second victim, identified as Hassan Sidawi, was a civilian who was on his balcony at the time of the attack, the source said.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health's Emergency Operations Center said a second Israeli drone strike targeted another motorcycle in the town of Barich in the Tyre district, killing a third person, who was identified by the security source as Yassine Ezzeddine, also a Hezbollah military commander.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed in two separate statements on Thursday that it had killed two Hezbollah commanders in southern Lebanon in separate airstrikes.
The strikes come despite a ceasefire agreement brokered by the United States and France between Hezbollah and Israel, which has been in place since Nov. 27, 2024, ending more than a year of cross-border clashes triggered by the war in Gaza.
The Israeli military has continued to conduct occasional strikes in southern Lebanon, saying they target Hezbollah threats. Lebanon has condemned the attacks as a violation of the ceasefire. ■
