Hezbollah issued a statement Thursday evening claiming an Israeli drone strike on a road near the village of Mipdun in southern Lebanon killed two civilians and wounded a third. The group called it the third deliberate attack on Lebanese civilians since the ceasefire, accusing Israel of a blatant violation. The IDF has not yet commented.
Hezbollah's military media released a statement at 23:55 Thursday evening claiming that an Israeli drone strike at 14:40 on a side road between al-Sharqiyah and Mipdun killed two Lebanese civilians and wounded a third. The group says the victims were en route to check their homes and calls it the third deliberate attack on civilians since the ceasefire—a characterization the IDF has not yet addressed. The claim follows hours of earlier, less specific reporting: at 15:16, unofficial Lebanese channels reported five casualties, then official state media confirmed three killed and clarified the target was a vehicle, and the Lebanese Health Ministry subsequently reported three fatalities in the Nabatieh area. All prior versions lacked attribution of civilian status or Hezbollah's specific accusation, which the group's statement now adds.
This incident deepens a pattern of contested accounts. As The Zioneer reported on June 23, the IDF acknowledged that machine-gun fire killed two civilians gathering bodies near Nabatieh, while Hezbollah separately claimed another ceasefire violation that same day. Earlier Thursday, at 08:41, Hezbollah alleged two civilians were killed in a UAV strike near Roummane—a strike the IDF identified as killing Hezbollah operatives Ahmad and Mahmoud Asili. The IDF has not released its own account of the Mipdun strike.
The charge of deliberate civilian targeting remains unverified by independent sources. The IDF has not commented on this specific incident, and no third-party confirmation of the victims' identities or circumstances has emerged. It is also unclear whether the strike was connected to any operational activity by Hezbollah forces in the area.
5 developments
- DevelopingHezbollah claims civilians killed in IDF drone strike, rejects Israeli account of targeting operatives
- StrongIDF drone strike kills two Hezbollah operatives near Tibnah in southern Lebanon
- ConfirmedHezbollah claims ceasefire violation as IDF fires on civilians in Nabatieh
- StrongIDF says troops struck Hezbollah gunmen in southern Lebanon after ceasefire breach
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