At Least Six Killed Over the Weekend as Israel Escalates Lebanon Strikes – Antiwar.com

IDF claims at least two top ranking Hezbollah leaders slain, provides no evidence After killing three people in strikes on Thursday, Israel has continued to escalate strikes against southern and eastern Lebanon over the weekend, with at least six more people confirmed killed and several others wounded in various attacks. Two were killed and two wounded on Friday in a drone attack on the town of Toul, in the Nabatieh District. The drone attacked and destroyed a vehicle in the town, while the IDF statement claimed to have attacked a “military camp” and killed a top logistics leader for Hezbollah. As usual, no evidence of the Israeli claim was actually offered, and the Lebanese Health Ministry reported the casualties without any identification suggesting any of them were in any way in league with Hezbollah. The strikes continued Saturday, with one man killed in a strike on a vehicle in Haruf, also near Nabatieh, and another person wounded. An Israeli drone also attacked a motorcycle in al-Qlaileh, killing another person. Here again, the IDF was crying Hezbollah leader, claiming the Haruf man was actually a top commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Forces, without evidence. Despite the group’s supposedly small size and
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