IDF says it killed Hezbollah cell in Lebanon’s Mays al-Jabal

Members of a cell of Hezbollah operatives were killed in a drone strike this morning in southern Lebanon’s Mays al-Jabal, the military says.

According to the IDF, the cell was operating a drone over Mays al-Jabal. A short while after they were spotted, an Israeli Air Force drone struck and killed them.

Following the strike, Hezbollah announced the deaths of Ali Shuqair, a member of the terror group, and Muhammad Hammadi, a paramedic who was a member of the Islamic Message Scouts Association, a Shiite scouts group associated with the Lebanese terror organization. Both were from Mays al-Jabal.

מוקדם יותר הבוקר כוחות צה"ל זיהו חוליית מחבלים שהפעילה רחפן במרחב מיס אל ג'בל שבלבנון, זמן קצר לאחר מכן כלי טיס של חיל האוויר תקף וחיסל את מחבלי החולייה.

בהמשך להתרעות שהופעלו בצפון הארץ בשעה 11:50, לוחמי ההגנה האווירית יירטו בהצלחה מטרה אווירית חשודה שחצה מלבנון למרחב מטולה>> pic.twitter.com/naOqNzj2Rd

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Meanwhile, two suspected drones from Lebanon were shot down by air defenses in the past hour, the IDF says, one over the Metula area and the other over the sea near Nahariya.

Also according to the IDF, all of the rockets fired at the Kiryat Shmona area this morning were intercepted by air defenses.

There were no injuries in the attack.