Lebanese military says two different personnel wounded after crashed Israeli drone explodes throughout inspection in Naqoura space.
Revealed On 28 Aug 2025
The Lebanese navy says two troopers have been killed and two wounded as they investigated an Israeli drone crash in southern Lebanon.
The military stated the downed Israeli drone exploded on Thursday throughout an inspection on the crash web site within the Naqoura space, not removed from Lebanon’s border with Israel.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun supplied condolences to the troopers who have been killed and injured, stressing that the navy “is paying, in blood, the worth of preserving stability within the south” of the nation.
The lethal incident got here as Israel has been finishing up near-daily assaults on Lebanon regardless of a ceasefire reached with Hezbollah in November.
It additionally coincides with a United Nations Safety Council vote to wind down a UN peacekeeping mission in southern Lebanon, which has for many years been tasked with sustaining a buffer between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli forces.
The mandate for the UN Interim Drive in Lebanon (UNIFIL) was prolonged by means of the top of 2026, however after that, the UN will perform an “orderly and secure drawdown and withdrawal” over the next yr.
The decision goals to make Lebanon’s navy “the only real supplier of safety” in southern Lebanon, a aim sophisticated by Israel’s continued presence within the nation. Each Israel and its prime ally, america, have been pushing to finish the UNIFIL mission.
“The method of withdrawing its 10,800 navy and civilian personnel and gear would begin instantly in session with the Lebanese authorities, to be accomplished inside a yr,” Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr defined.
UN Safety Council voted unanimously to terminate the UN peacekeeping drive in southern #Lebanon on the finish of 2026 after practically 5 a long time, bowing to calls for from US and ally Israel. The decision would terminate UNIFIL’s mandate and halt its operations on the finish of 2026.…
— Zeina Khodr (@ZeinakhodrAljaz) August 28, 2025
The US has additionally been pressuring Lebanon’s authorities to comply with a plan to disarm Hezbollah – one thing the Lebanese group has rejected, stressing that such a transfer will solely reward Israel.
On a go to to Beirut on Tuesday, US envoy Tom Barrack stated Lebanon had agreed to current a plan geared toward persuading Hezbollah to disarm whereas Israel would submit a corresponding framework for its navy withdrawal from the nation.
Barrack stated the plan, which is predicted to be offered on Sunday, is not going to contain navy coercion however give attention to efforts to encourage Hezbollah to give up its weapons.
A day earlier, Hezbollah Secretary-Common Naim Qassem said the Lebanese authorities should first guarantee Israel complies with the ceasefire earlier than talks on a nationwide defence technique might happen.
“For those who really need sovereignty, then cease the aggression. We is not going to abandon the weapons that honour us nor the weapons that defend us from our enemy,” Qassem stated.
