The killing of two Hezbollah commanders by Air Force aircraft strikes in southern Lebanon, the Israeli military announced Thursday morning.

According to the IDF, one of those killed was Ahmad Mustafa Alhaj Ali, responsible for firing hundreds of rockets and anti-tank missiles at the Israeli town of Kiryat Smona.

In addition, the IDF said that yesterday and overnight they struck weapons depots in southern Lebanon and Beirut and destroyed Hezbollah’s underground infrastructure, previously taking various measures to limit damage to civilians, including evacuation warnings. In total, they struck 140 targets in Lebanon and the Gaza Strip.

At the same time, they announced that some 40 rockets were fired from Lebanon into Galilee. Most were intercepted, however, some got away, with one of them causing damage to a house.

But some of them were even damaged, causing damage to a house.

UN warns Israel not to ban UNRWA activities in Palestinian territories

The UN Security Council, including the US, warned Israel yesterday, Wednesday, against passing a bill aimed at prohibiting UNRWA activities in the occupied Palestinian territories, a day after UN Secretary-General Anthony Guterres made the same call.

Relations between the UN and Israel are historically difficult and have deteriorated since Israeli authorities declared Guterresan an “unwelcome person.”

Since the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel has denounced“terrorists” working in the UN Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA).

During a Security Council meeting devoted to the humanitarian crisis in the Palestinian enclave, US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, in a rare move for the US, said “I am watching with great concern the Israeli bill which may change the legal status of UNRWA.”

He also assessed that if this happens, UNRWA may find it difficult “to communicate with Israeli officials” and it is possible “that the privileges and diplomatic immunity enjoyed by UN organizations and workers around the world will be removed.”

Thomas-Greenfield was referring to two bills approved Sunday by the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that aim to end UNRWA’s activities and cancel its status in the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories.

Algeria, a non-permanent member of the Security Council at whose initiative the meeting was convened, recalled that “the Israeli authorities have for years clearly expressed their desire and will to dislocate UNRWA.”

The US warning to Israel was unanimously adopted by all 15 members – permanent and non-permanent – of the Security Council.