IAF airstrikes kills 8 Hezbollah scumbuckets in Lebanon

Israeli airstrikes hammered eastern Lebanon late Friday, taking out eight members of Hezbollah, the Islamic terror group, including several local officials, according to two sources inside the organization.

The Lebanese Health Ministry bumped the overall death toll to 10 but conveniently declined to specify how many were militants versus civilians. This is the same game Hamassholes play when they give the media statistics about Gaza deaths, and the media believes them without question.

Those Hezbollonian officials, spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because they weren't cleared to yap about it, confirmed the eight fighters were eliminated near the village of Rayak in northeast Lebanon. An AP crew on the ground Saturday morning confirmed the damage: the top floor of a three-story building was completely obliterated.

The Israeli military on Saturday, announced that several members of Hezbollah's missile unit were "eliminated" across three separate command centers in the Baalbek area. They added that the targets were "operating to accelerate readiness and force build-up processes, while planning fire attacks toward Israel."

One Hezbollah source named three of the dead as local commanders: Ali al-Moussawi, Mohammed al-Moussawi, and Hussein Yaghi. Yaghi was the son of prominent Hezbollah figure and founding member Mohammed Yaghi, who passed away in 2023. Mohammed Yaghi had also served as a close aide to the late Hezbollah boss Hassan Nasrallah, who was blown to bitesize pieces by an Israeli airstrike in September 2024.

Lebanon's Health Ministry reported Saturday that the strikes across eastern Lebanon killed 10 people and wounded 24, including three children.

Ali Abdullah, executive director of Rayak Hospital, told the media that the strike hit after sunset. They received 10 bodies and 21 wounded. Among the dead were two non-Lebanese: a Syrian man and an Ethiopian woman. The wounded included five Syrians and three Ethiopians. Ethiopians, of course, frequently end up in Lebanon as migrant domestic workers.

A funeral took place Saturday afternoon in the eastern village of Nabi Chit for two of the Hezbollah members killed in the strikes.

This all traces back to the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamasshole-led attack on Israel that ignited the Gaza war. Hezbollah jumped in almost immediately, launching rockets from Lebanon into Israel in solidarity with Hamas and the Palestinians. Israel hit back with airstrikes and artillery. What started as a low-boil skirmish exploded into full-scale war in September 2024, only to be partially cooled, but not ended, by a U.S.-brokered ceasefire two months later.

Since then, Israel has repeatedly called out Hezbollah for trying to rearm and rebuild, responding with near-daily strikes targeting militants and facilities. Hezbollah has fired exactly one claimed strike into Israel since the truce.

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Friday's body count stands out as unusually high and lands amid spiking regional tensions. The United States has warned it could strike Iran, a key backer of both Hezbollah and Hamas, if talks over Tehran’s nuclear program collapse and no deal materializes.

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IAF kills Hezbollah Radwan Commander

On August 17, 2024, the IDF carried out a strike on Hussein Ibrahim Kasseb, a commander of Hezbollah's Radwan Force. According to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit, an IAF drone targeted and eliminated Ibrahim while he was riding a motorcycle in southern Lebanon. The Radwan Force is a special unit within Hezbollah trained for operations aimed at infiltrating northern Israel.

The strike occurred amid an escalation of hostilities, as Hezbollah launched a barrage of rockets into northern Israel. In total, the IDF reported that Hezbollah fired 55 rockets, resulting in two men being hospitalized with light to moderate injuries. The missile attacks also ignited several fires, which the Israel Fire and Rescue Services managed to extinguish.

Shortly after this operation, the IDF confirmed the successful hit on Ibrahim. This confirmation came soon after a correspondent for the Hezbollah-affiliated Lebanese news agency Al-Mayadeen reported that Hezbollah had launched over 40 rockets in two successive salvos towards the Galilee region.

Hezbollah later claimed responsibility for a strike on Kibbutz Ayelet Hashahar, stating it was a retaliation for an Israeli air strike on Nabatiya early Saturday.

According to the Lebanese Health Ministry, the air strike in Nabatiya allegedly resulted in six fatalities and three injuries initially, with the updated figures from Lebanon’s state NNA news agency reporting 10 killed and four wounded. NNA stated that all the victims were Syrian citizens and indicated that a final death toll would be confirmed following DNA tests to identify the victims.

Local reports, cited by Ynet, suggested that the strike targeted the home of a family of 12, and among the casualties were reportedly children. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied involvement in the strike.

Lebanon’s MTV reported that Hezbollah forces were hindering journalists from accessing the sites affected by the strike.

The IDF also reported that earlier in the day, two soldiers were injured by projectiles fired from Lebanon, which landed in the Misgav Am area.

One soldier sustained severe injuries, while the other was lightly wounded.

On Saturday morning, the IDF disclosed that the IAF had struck a Hezbollah building in the Hanin and Marun al-Ras area and a warehouse near Nabatiya overnight. Additionally, the IDF fired artillery shells in the Ramish, Lavona, Kfar Shuba, and Aita al-Sha’ab areas in southern Lebanon.

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