Lebanese health ministry confirms 1 dead in Israeli drone strike; IDF yet to comment

Emanuel (Mannie) Fabian is The Times of Israel's military correspondent

Lebanon’s health ministry confirms that one person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle in the town of Qabrikha in the country’s south this afternoon.

The slain man is identified in reports as Muhammad Nasser Yousef, a paramedic with the Hezbollah-allied Amal movement’s Risala Scouts.

The IDF has not yet commented on the strike, the first in Lebanon in weeks.

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