The airstrike occurred near a Lebanese army checkpoint and Sidon’s municipal sports stadium. Footage from the scene showed a vehicle engulfed in flames, with emergency responders recovering a charred body. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an “enemy drone” carried out the attack, which also injured two civilians.

A Hamas military commander was killed in an Israeli airstrike in Sidon city in southern Lebanon on Monday, the military said. A military statement said that Mohammad Shahin was killed in a drone strike on a car in the coastal city in a joint operation by the army and the Shin Bet domestic security service.

An Israeli drone strike hit a vehicle in the southern Lebanese city of Sidon on Monday, just a day before Israel's scheduled withdrawal.