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Israel Intensifies Attacks against Hezbollah Field Commanders in Lebanon

The Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South. (NNA)
The Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South. (NNA)
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Israel Intensifies Attacks against Hezbollah Field Commanders in Lebanon

The Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South. (NNA)
The Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South. (NNA)

Six people were killed in Lebanon in the past two days in Israeli strikes against Hezbollah members.

Lebanon’s state news agency said an Israeli drone strike in the country’s south hit a car, killing two people on Thursday afternoon in the village of Baraachit.

The National News Agency gave no further details and it was not immediately clear if the two killed were members of Hezbollah. Israel's military said the strike targeted two members of the party.

Israel had earlier in the day fired artillery at Baraachit.

Also on Thursday, the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South.

The NNA said one person was killed overnight on Thursday in an Israeli drone strike on a car in the town of Maaroub in the Tyre region.

Meanwhile, head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad said the party’s priority at the moment “lies in ending the Israeli occupation, kicking off reconstruction, consolidating sovereignty, achieving the desired reform, and ensuring national partnership.”

“The resistance in Lebanon has and will always be the resistance against occupation and injustice, and against invaders and violators,” he declared.

“The resistance has made major achievements (...) and repelled Israel’s world war against Lebanon in 2006 and defeated it,” he added.

The “support front” Hezbollah had launched in solidarity with Gaza on October 8, 2023, “was a preemptive move aimed at protecting Lebanon, the resistance and its people,” he went on to say.

Moreover, Raad said Hezbollah has been firmly committed to the ceasefire since it went into effect in November “even though it knew that the enemy will not respect it and despite its violations that have been ongoing since day one.”

Furthermore, he stressed that the “resistance was never an alternative to the state in assuming responsibility. Rather, it aided it in protecting Lebanon and forcing the enemy to withdraw” from occupied territories.

The resistance also helped the state “preserve national sovereignty and dignity,” he added.

Now, the new government is prioritizing reform, “and we will help it in achieving that,” remarked Raad.

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Far-Right Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Visits Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound

Palestinians attend Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrations by the Dome of the Rock shrine in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians attend Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrations by the Dome of the Rock shrine in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP)
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Far-Right Israeli Minister Ben-Gvir Visits Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque Compound

Palestinians attend Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrations by the Dome of the Rock shrine in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP)
Palestinians attend Eid al-Fitr holiday celebrations by the Dome of the Rock shrine in the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP)

Israel’s far-right National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir visited the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City on Wednesday, his spokesperson said, prompting strong condemnation from Jordan and Palestinian group Hamas.

The firebrand politician was visiting the site, which is sacred to Jews and Muslims, in occupied east Jerusalem after returning to the Israeli government last month following the resumption of the war against Hamas in Gaza.

Ben-Gvir had quit the cabinet in January in protest at the ceasefire agreement in the Palestinian territory.

Since the formation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government at the end of 2022, Ben-Gvir has made several trips to the Al-Aqsa compound, each time triggering international outcry.

In a statement, the Jordanian Foreign Ministry condemned Wednesday’s visit as a “storming” and “an unacceptable provocation.”

Hamas called it a “provocative and dangerous escalation,” saying the visit was “part of the ongoing genocide against our Palestinian people.”

“We call on our Palestinian people and our youth in the West Bank to escalate their confrontation... in defense of our land and our sanctities, foremost among them the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque,” it said in a statement.

The site is Islam’s third-holiest and a symbol of Palestinian national identity.

Known to Jews as the Temple Mount, it is also Judaism’s holiest place, revered as the site of the second temple destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD.

Under the status quo maintained by Israel, which has occupied east Jerusalem and its Old City since 1967, Jews and other non-Muslims are allowed to visit the compound during specified hours, but they are not permitted to pray there or display religious symbols.

Ben-Gvir’s spokesperson told AFP the minister “went there because the site was opened (for non-Muslims) after 13 days,” during which access was reserved for Muslims for the festival of Eid al-Fitr and the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

In recent years, growing numbers of Jewish ultranationalists have defied the rules, including Ben-Gvir, who publicly prayed there in 2023 and 2024.

The Israeli government has said repeatedly that it intends to uphold the status quo at the compound but Palestinian fears about its future have made it a flashpoint for violence.