A Lebanese Army soldier was killed when an Israeli drone struck a motorcycle in the village of Ramaan near Nabatieh, according to Lebanese media reports. The strike comes less than an hour after another Israeli airstrike in the same area killed a second Lebanese soldier on the Kfar Rumman road. The IDF has not commented.
A Lebanese Army soldier was killed when an Israeli UAV struck a motorcycle in the village of Ramaan near Nabatieh, Lebanese media reported Saturday at approximately 11:27 Jerusalem time. The strike is the third reported attack on a Lebanese soldier in the Nabatieh area within roughly an hour, according to the sequence of reports.
As The Zioneer reported at 10:34 Jerusalem, the Lebanese Army earlier confirmed two separate incidents: an Israeli airstrike on the Kfar Rumman road that killed a second soldier, and a prior strike that killed a first soldier in the same corridor. The three kills have not been explicitly attributed to a single operation by the Israeli military, which has not commented on any of the strikes. The earlier confirmed incidents were published at 10:34 Jerusalem, with the first soldier's death initially reported by Lebanese media and later confirmed by the Lebanese Army. A separate drone strike severely wounded another Lebanese soldier near Nabatieh on Saturday, Jun 13, as The Zioneer reported at 16:05 Jerusalem.
Israeli strikes in the Nabatieh area have been ongoing for months as part of broader operations against Hezbollah infrastructure, as The Zioneer has reported. The Lebanese Army, which is institutionally distinct from Hezbollah, has increasingly suffered casualties in these attacks, which Israel has not routinely acknowledged. Related background incidents include a strike on a motorcycle in the Nabatieh area on Sunday, Jun 14, that killed two people (The Zioneer, 07:38 Jerusalem), and four separate strikes near Nabatieh on Tuesday, Jun 16, that killed four people (The Zioneer, 18:21 Jerusalem).
The precise circumstances of the three reported soldier deaths Saturday morning — including whether they occurred in coordinated strikes or separate incidents — have not been detailed by any official source. The Israeli military has not issued any statement regarding the strikes.
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