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MapIsraeli Army Kills Nasr Mohammed Younes as Hezbollah Returns to Southern Lebanon Villages
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Hezbollah gradually returns to southern Lebanon villages vacated by Israeli forces. Israeli army chief warns of immediate strong response and expands robotic combat units.
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IDF pilot falters
The Israeli army said more than 100 days had passed since the IDF handed control of three villages in southern Lebanon to the Lebanese army, but Hezbollah was gradually returning to areas it evacuated and reactivating parts of its civilian networks. The Israeli military deployed a Zik drone against two suspects riding a motorcycle in the southern Lebanese village of Qabrikha, killing at least one of them, and it identified the man killed as Nasr Mohammed Younes, a medical team member with the Amal movement's Risala Scouts.
The Israeli army also said it continued to strike Hezbollah infrastructure while troops cleared the area and prepared for the possibility of renewed fighting after completing operations on the ridge beneath the Ali al-Taher Ridge in early September. The Alma Research and Education Center said Hezbollah-affiliated organizations began reappearing in Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh after the Lebanese army deployed there in late July 2026, including the Islamic Health Organization and the Wataawano Association, whose name means "Help One Another."
Threats and countervailing pledges
Euronews reported that Israeli Chief of the General Staff Eyal Zamir threatened Hezbollah with an 'immediate and strong' response to any attempt to bolster its military capabilities near the border with Lebanon. Zamir said the Israeli army would not allow Hezbollah to rebuild what he described as 'terrorist infrastructure' in the region, warning that any attempt to redeploy or strengthen military capabilities or threaten residential communities in northern Israel would be met with an 'immediate and strong' response.
Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam warned against dragging Lebanon into 'another reckless adventure in service of external interests,' and he said after meeting President Joseph Aoun that the decision of war and peace must remain exclusively with the state and its constitutional institutions. Lebanese President Joseph Aoun leveraged his Arab and international political ties after receiving a clear warning from US Secretary of State Marco Rubio that Israel will not stand idly by if Hezbollah again lends support to Iran, and it will seek to link the south of the Litani River to its north.
War risk and aid dilemma
The Israeli army claimed it killed about 400 Hezbollah fighters and destroyed nearly 3,500 Hezbollah-owned infrastructure facilities over eight months of military operations conducted by forces of the Seventh Brigade in areas of southern Lebanon. The Israeli army said its forces ended their military activity in the areas of Wadi al-Saluki, al-Qantara, and al-Litani, and it asserted that it found hundreds of weapons and combat equipment during search operations.
The West Asian analysis in بوابة الشروق framed the Lebanon dilemma as whether economic aid can be provided to Lebanon while maintaining pressures aimed at weakening Hezbollah and preventing aid from serving the organization and maintaining the Shia population’s dependence on it. The same analysis said the Lebanese state needs urgent external assistance to revive its economy and rebuild damages caused by wars, while it added that Lebanon had difficulty meeting conditions set by the International Monetary Fund in April 2022 to obtain financing of $3 billion.