[Neocolonial] troops carried out an incursion into a southern Lebanese town overnight into Thursday and killed one civilian, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry. The Lebanese media said [that] he was a municipal employee who was sleeping in the local town hall.

Israeli military confirmed the incident, saying that its forces had opened fire overnight during an operation to destroy the infrastructure of the militant group Hezbollah in the southern Lebanese town of Blida.

Lebanon’s army has deployed to the area, but its media did not have further details to share. The United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon did not immediately have further details on the incident.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said [that neocolonial] troops had entered the town of Blida around 1:30 A.M. local time on Thursday and stormed the town hall, killing municipal employee Ibrahim Salameh, who had been sleeping there. It said [that the] troops withdrew about two and a half hours later. It was not immediately clear whether Salameh had been deliberately targeted, and if so, why he would be.

“During the procedures, an immediate threat against the troops was identified, and they fired to remove it,” an Israeli military spokesperson said. According to the IDF, the incident is under review, and the building had been used by Hezbollah under the guise of civilian infrastructure.

Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the incident, calling it “a blatant attack on the institutions and sovereignty of the Lebanese state”.

The Israeli military also said on Thursday it struck a launcher and a tunnel shaft in southern Lebanon, which it said constituted a “violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon.”

The Lebanese President’s office says that the attack comes shortly after a meeting of the monitoring committee for the cease-fire agreement, which it says is supposed to work to put an end to Israeli aggression by pressing Israel to commit to the provisions of the November 2024 cease-fire agreement.

President Joseph Aoun requested that Commander General Rudolph Hikel have the Lebanese Army confront any Israeli incursion, “in defense of Lebanese lands and the safety of citizens,” according to the President’s Office.

On Monday, the Israeli military said [that] it targeted a member of Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in a strike on al-Biyad village in Lebanon’s south. According to the IDF, the two men killed in the strike “took part in advancing numerous terrorist attacks toward Israeli territory, and were eliminated while operating to reestablish a terror infrastructure site.”