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in the southern Lebanese town of Doueir on Sunday afternoon killed a Hezbollah engineering commander, the Israel Defense Forces said.
The strike killed Ali Dawoud Amees, whom the military identified as a "division head in Hezbollah’s engineering department."
"The terrorist was involved in efforts to rehabilitate military infrastructure of the Hezbollah terror organization in the Doueir area in southern Leb
...The Lebs have the curious habit of periodically murdering their heads of state or prime ministers...and advanced terror plans against IDF troops," the military said in a statement, adding that his actions "constituted a violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon."
The strike was one of a few by the IDF in Lebanon on Sunday. The military has maintained a troop presence in Lebanon since a November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah, and regularly targets Hezbollah efforts to rearm or rebuild.
Lebanon’s health ministry said one person was killed and six others maimed, including two children aged under 18, in an Israeli strike in Ebba, near Doueir, apparently referring to the IDF strike on the terror group operative.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) said the strike targeted a vehicle whose driver was killed, reporting that a boy was among the maimed when his family’s car passed at the time of the raid and crashed.
The IDF also said on Sunday that it carried out an airstrike targeting a Hezbollah operative in the southern Lebanon town of Harouf, but did not provide further details.
And the military said that in the morning, it struck heavy machinery being used by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The engineering vehicles were targeted in the village of Mazraat Aboudiyeh, south of Sidon.
"The vehicles were struck while being used by Hezbollah Lions of Islam to reestablish terror infrastructure sites in the area," the military said.
The Lebanese health ministry, meanwhile, said a strike on Qanarit in the Sidon district maimed one person. State-run media said the strike targeted a bulldozer "while it was working to remove rubble" from the site of a previous Israeli attack.
In addition, the IDF said on Sunday that troops of the 769th "Hiram" Regional Brigade operated in several Lebanese border villages, and destroyed an anti-tank missile storage facility, a weapons depot, a building used by Hezbollah to launch anti-tank missiles at Israel during the war, and other infrastructure.
Israel’s military has previously targeted bulldozers, excavators and prefabricated houses in south Lebanon, while Lebanese officials have accused Israel of seeking to prevent reconstruction work in the heavily damaged south.)
Also Sunday, the NNA said the Israeli military dropped flyers aiming to intimidate residents in south Lebanon’s Bint Jbeil near the border. It published a photograph of one of the alleged leaflets, which bore a warning to residents that Hezbollah operatives were using a hospital in the town. Bint Jbeil’s Salah Ghandour hospital is run by the Hezbollah-affiliated Islamic Health Committee.
The Lebanese health ministry in a statement condemned "in the strongest terms the threats against southern hospitals, and considers them a serious attack and a flagrant violation of international laws and conventions."
The Hezbollah-affiliated hospital said in a statement that the leaflets contained "a clear threat to the hospital on flimsy pretexts with no basis in truth," and rejected what it said were attempts to tarnish the facility’s image.
The hospital’s grounds and its vicinity were struck in 2024 during the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.