Eleven said killed, including 2 children, in overnight IDF strikes in south Lebanon

The Israel Defense Forces struck Hezbollah terror group targets in Lebanon overnight Sunday-Monday, reportedly killing eleven people, after the Iranian proxy fired two explosive drones at troops, the army said.

The IDF said that no injuries were caused to troops in the Hezbollah attack, the third such incident in a week.

In a separate incident on Monday, two IDF soldiers were lightly wounded in a clash with a Hezbollah operative near Beaufort Castle in southern Lebanon, the military said.

In response to the drones, Hezbollah infrastructure sites in several areas of southern Lebanon, including a weapons depot, were targeted in airstrikes, according to the IDF.

According to the state-run National News Agency, a strike carried out by Israeli fighter jets on a residential building in the town of Kfar Reman after midnight killed nine people, including two children, and wounded five others.

A separate drone strike on a car in Kfar Reman killed two paramedics of the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement’s Risala Scouts, according to NNA.

The IDF said it had struck several Hezbollah operatives who were identified moving weaponry in the town. It said it was looking into the reports that civilians had been harmed in the strikes.

Additionally, in response to a separate Hezbollah drone attack on Sunday, the IDF said it struck and killed several members of Hezbollah in Nabatieh. NNA reported strikes there and in nearby Arab Salim.

A strike also destroyed a building in Deir al-Zahrani, after the IDF issued an evacuation warning for it.

“Hezbollah’s terrorist activity compels the IDF to act forcefully against it,” the army said of the area, adding that it was targeting a “Hezbollah terrorist facility.”

Later on Monday, troops of the Golani Brigade’s Reconnaissance Unit were carrying out scans in the Beaufort area when a Hezbollah gunman hiding inside a building opened fire on them, according to the army.

Two of the soldiers were lightly injured and were taken to a hospital for treatment. The IDF said their families were notified.

The soldiers returned fire and carried out artillery shelling toward the building, killing the Hezbollah gunman, according to the military.

The IDF said it struck other Hezbollah sites in southern Lebanon in response to the gunfire, including weapon depots and command centers.

The latest strikes came after Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Sunday killed seven people and wounded 20 others, according to Lebanese authorities, after Hezbollah launched two explosive drones at Israeli troops operating in the area.

Israeli forces remain deployed inside what Israel describes as a “security zone” extending roughly 10 kilometers (6 miles) into southern Lebanon along the border.

Israel and Lebanon signed a US-brokered framework agreement on June 26 aimed at paving the way toward an eventual peace deal. Israel agreed to withdraw from two small areas beyond its original security zone, with Lebanese troops taking over, while Israeli officials said further withdrawals would depend on measurable progress by the Lebanese army in disarming Hezbollah.

In Lebanon, the Israeli military has said that it has killed over 2,500 Hezbollah operatives, including hundreds of members of the terror group’s elite Radwan Force, since the Iranian proxy attacked Israel on March 2, in support of Tehran. Tallies have put the total Lebanese death toll at some 4,300.

40 IDF soldiers and one Defense Ministry civilian contractor have been killed in southern Lebanon since March. Two civilians were also killed by Hezbollah rockets, and an Israeli civilian was mistakenly killed in the north by Israeli artillery shelling.

Agencies contributed to this report.