About 60 'Hezbollah members' killed in 1 year by an Israeli intelligence unit

BEIRUT — The Arabic-language spokesperson for the Israeli army, Avichay Adraee, said on X that the intelligence unit Shahaf (869) has killed nearly 60 Hezbollah members over the past year in operations aimed at preventing the group’s reconstruction.

Placed under the command of the 91st Division (which is part of Northern Command, responsible for the Lebanese border) and operating in southern Lebanon, Unit 869 is involved, according to Adraee, in “eliminating fighters, conducting reconnaissance missions, as well as guiding ground and air strikes.”

He claimed that over the past year, soldiers from this unit have eliminated nearly 60 Hezbollah members and destroyed dozens of infrastructures, weapons depots, and observation posts.

Additionally, “the surveillance operations rooms under the unit have contributed to guiding ground and airstrikes in hundreds of targeted operations in southern Lebanon,” he added.

Despite the cease-fire in effect in Lebanon since November 2024, the Israeli army continues its deadly strikes. It claims to target “Hezbollah reconstruction attempts,” which under the truce agreement and many other Lebanese and U.N. texts, must hand over its arsenal to the state throughout the country.

Although Hezbollah has agreed to withdraw from the area south of the Litani River, where it was predominant, and has not opposed disarmament by the Lebanese Army in that zone, it refuses to hand over its weapons elsewhere in the country.

The Israeli army has also announced that an all-female combat formation will be established next month within this unit.

The five units (distributed geographically along Israel’s borders with Gaza, the West Bank, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon) of the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps are responsible for gathering military information to strengthen the operations of ground or air combat units. These units composed of infantry soldiers and entirely female surveillance teams.