Three people were reported killed in Israeli drone strikes on vehicles in Lebanon, as Israel's military said its targets included an alleged member of Iran's Quds Force and a Hezbollah member. The attacks occurred despite the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah that took effect in November 2024.
The Lebanese National News Agency placed one attack in the Hermel district, where two occupants died after a vehicle on Hosh al-Sayyed Ali road was hit. The supplied report did not identify those victims. Separately, the Israeli military said an attack in the Ansariyah area of southern Lebanon killed Hussein Mahmoud Marshad al-Jawhari, whom it alleged was connected to the Quds Force within the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Israel accused al-Jawhari of conducting activities directed by Iran against Israeli personnel and the country itself from both Syria and Lebanon. That characterization was an Israeli military allegation. The IRGC did not immediately respond, and the evidence contained no independent confirmation of his organizational role or activities.
Lebanese state media also reported that another drone struck a pickup truck near the entrance to Safad al-Batikh in the Bint Jbeil district early on Thursday afternoon. In a brief statement, Israel said it had killed a Hezbollah member in southern Lebanon. The account did not provide that person's name or independently establish the affiliation.
The lethal operations followed a separate Israeli drone strike late Wednesday in Jennata, in the Tyre district. That attack targeted a car and injured a passer-by, according to the reporting. Together, the incidents reflected the continuing pattern of Israeli action inside Lebanon after the formal cessation of major cross-border fighting.
Israel says its repeated raids are directed at Hezbollah personnel and military infrastructure and argues that the group must fully disarm under the ceasefire. Lebanese reporting and international monitoring indicate that the attacks have continued at high frequency. The United Nations recorded more than 300 people killed in Lebanon since the truce began, including approximately 127 civilians.
Records maintained by the monitoring organization ACLED counted almost 1,600 Israeli attacks across Lebanon between January and late November 2025. Those wider figures did not determine the status of the three people killed on the event date, but they placed the vehicle attacks within a sustained campaign rather than an isolated exchange.
As of December 25, the confirmed public accounts established three deaths across the reported attacks. Israel supplied affiliations for two targets, while the Iranian organization named in one claim had not replied. The continuing strikes showed that the ceasefire had not ended lethal military operations or the dispute over Hezbollah's weapons and Iranian-linked activity in Lebanon.
