Hezbollah member killed in Israeli airstrike on S. Lebanon: sources

This photo taken on Aug. 31, 2025 shows Israeli airstrikes on the Nabatieh area, southern Lebanon. According to the NNA, the intelligence source, and local eyewitnesses, Israeli drones and warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes across southern Lebanon, including some places deep in the area, targeting Hezbollah military positions "subjected to similar air raids" conducted previously.

The strikes caused the closure of the international road linking the border area in southern Lebanon with the Nabatieh region, and the Lebanese army is working on it, they said. (Photo by Taher Abu Hamdan/Xinhua)

BEIRUT, Aug. 31 (Xinhua) -- A Hezbollah member was killed Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese sources.

An Israeli drone "struck a motorcycle on the Nabatieh Al-Fawqa road with a guided missile," Lebanon's official National News Agency (NNA) reported. A Lebanese army intelligence source told Xinhua the dead was a Hezbollah member named Ali Tawba from the village of Maifadoun.

According to the NNA, the intelligence source, and local eyewitnesses, Israeli drones and warplanes also carried out multiple airstrikes across southern Lebanon, including some places deep in the area, targeting Hezbollah military positions "subjected to similar air raids" conducted previously.

The strikes caused the closure of the international road linking the border area in southern Lebanon with the Nabatieh region, and the Lebanese army is working on it, they said.

Since Nov. 27, 2024, a U.S.- and French-brokered ceasefire between Hezbollah and Israel has been in effect, ending more than a year of cross-border clashes. The agreement stipulated Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon, but the Israeli army has maintained several posts along the border and continues to launch attacks, citing "threats" from Hezbollah.

Reports indicate that the Israeli army has begun establishing new military posts along the southern Lebanon border. 

This photo taken on Aug. 31, 2025 shows Israeli airstrikes on the Nabatieh area, southern Lebanon. According to the NNA, the intelligence source, and local eyewitnesses, Israeli drones and warplanes carried out multiple airstrikes across southern Lebanon, including some places deep in the area, targeting Hezbollah military positions "subjected to similar air raids" conducted previously.