On Sunday, Zionist forces also killed the Quds Force’s special operations chief.
On Sunday night and Monday morning, Israeli warplanes carried out airstrikes on several areas in southern Lebanon and the Bekaa Valley, killing at least 16 people and wounding several others.
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An airstrike on Machghara in the Bekaa Valley killed two people and wounded five others.
In Nabatieh, south of Lebanon, a drone strike near Kfar Remman killed four people, and a strike on the Fakhr al-Din-Toul road killed two people and wounded two others.
A separate strike near Gandour Hospital killed one person. In Burj Rahal, an airstrike killed three people and wounded one. An airstrike on the village of Ebba killed four people.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said it carried out drone attacks on Israeli military targets near the border and launched rocket salvos toward several settlements in northern Israel after midnight.
Cross-border fighting has continued along the Lebanon-Israel border since March 2, when Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel for the first time since a ceasefire took effect on Nov. 27, 2024, triggering intensified Israeli airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon.
On Sunday, the Israeli occupation army killed the chief of the special operations unit of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guard Corps Quds Force.
Asghar Bagheri, who served as the commander of the undercover unit since 2019, was killed in an airstrike in Tehran.
His assassination joins dozens of other senior Iranian commanders and officials killed by Israel since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran in February, including Iran’s previous Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, which sparked a regional conflict in the Middle East.
