IDF says 2 terror operatives killed in Lebanon strike; mob attacks UN peacekeepers

A Hezbollah operative and a member of an allied terror group, identified by Lebanese authorities as a father and son, were killed in an Israeli drone strike in a southern Lebanese village on Tuesday, the military said.

The strike took place in the village of Shebaa, according to the IDF and Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency.

NNA reported that the strike also wounded a second son.

According to the IDF, the second operative was a member of the Lebanese Resistance Companies, a smaller militia affiliated with Hezbollah.

According to the IDF, the two operatives were involved in “handling weapons used by Hezbollah for terror purposes and for observation of IDF soldiers in the area.”

Their activity “constitutes a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the IDF added.

الشهيدان الوالد محمد كنعان و نجله العسكري في الجيش اللبناني الشهيد وائل كنعان

قتلتهم "اسرائيل" صباحًا في مزارع شبعا داخل الأراضي اللبنانية.

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الدولة اللبنانية لا حس ولا خبر، راكضة تراضي اليونيفيل ومش سائلة عن مواطنيها. pic.twitter.com/z5otUmEhID

— أبا مَهدِي سماحة (@MhmdSmeha2) June 10, 2025

Lebanon’s health ministry also confirmed that two people were killed and one was wounded in the strike on Shebaa.

The Al-Maydeen network, affiliated with terror group Hezbollah, claimed that one of those killed was a soldier in the Lebanese army.

Israel had warned on Friday that it would keep up its strikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon despite the condemnation expressed by the Lebanese government after a massive strike on south Beirut the previous night on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday, following an evacuation warning.

Iran-backed Hezbollah said the strikes leveled nine residential blocks. The Israeli military said they targeted underground drone factories after Lebanese authorities failed to act.

Israel has continued to carry out targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure since it signed a ceasefire with Lebanon in late November, alleging violations of the truce agreement.

مراسلة «الأخبار»: الصليب الأحمر اللبناني يُجلي جثماني شهيدين وجريح ثالث من وادي جنعم في أطراف #شبعا#الأخبار#لبنان pic.twitter.com/D3Pu0Def3P

— جريدة الأخبار – Al-Akhbar (@AlakhbarNews) June 10, 2025

According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.

The ceasefire agreement brought to an end more than a year of fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of open war in southern Lebanon late last year.

Hezbollah began attacking military outposts and communities in northern Israel unprovoked on October 8, 2023, in a show of support for fellow Iranian proxy Hamas in Gaza after its assault on southern Israel a day earlier.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel was to withdraw from Lebanon, while maintaining the right to attack threats to its security.

Since then, the Lebanese state has been working methodically to dismantle the terror group’s infrastructure in the south of the country, and is estimated to have seized the majority of the terror group’s weapons stockpile in the same area.

UNIFIL, Lebanese army patrol attacked by mob

Meanwhile, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known by the acronym UNIFIL, reported that a mob pelted its soldiers as they were conducting a joint patrol with the Lebanese army on Tuesday.

The slap that has become famous in #Lebanon: Earlier today, plain cloth #Hezbollah militants physically assaulted the UN “interim” since 1978 peace keeping force UNIFIL, blocking its inspection of a likely Hezbollah arms depot. UNIFIL costs $500 million a year, money’d be better… pic.twitter.com/XtvQo4n29W

— Hussain Abdul-Hussain (@hahussain) June 10, 2025

“This morning, UNIFIL peacekeepers conducting a planned patrol coordinated with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) were confronted by a group of individuals in civilian clothing in the vicinity of Hallusiyat al Tahta, in southern Lebanon,” UNIFIL said in a statement. “The group attempted to obstruct the patrol using aggressive means, including throwing stones at the peacekeepers.”

It said one peacekeeper was hit, though “fortunately, no injuries were reported.”

The troops used “non-lethal measures to ensure the safety of both the patrol members and those present,” the statement continued, adding that “the situation was quickly brought under control,” after which the patrol continued.

“It is unacceptable that UNIFIL peacekeepers continue to be targeted,” it said and called on Lebanese authorities to  “take all necessary measures” to ensure that its peacekeepers can carry out operations without obstruction or threat.