IDF says latest airstrikes in south Lebanon killed three Hezbollah operatives

Stav Levaton is a military reporter for The Times of Israel

The IDF says it killed three Hezbollah operatives in separate strikes across southern Lebanon over the past 24 hours, following the announcement of a wave of airstrikes on Hezbollah targets in the region and the Beqaa Valley earlier today.

According to the military, one of those killed was Samir Ali Fakih, a Hezbollah member involved in smuggling weapons for the terror group across Lebanon. He was targeted in an airstrike in Srifa, southern Lebanon.

Two additional Hezbollah operatives were killed yesterday in Houmine El Faouqa and as-Sawana, also in southern Lebanon.

The IDF says a total of 15 Hezbollah operatives have been killed since the beginning of November, adding that their activities posed a threat to Israel and violated the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.

The military says it will continue operating to “eliminate any threat against the State of Israel.”

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