People handed out sweets; celebratory messages, memes, and phone calls flooded my WhatsApp. But the news channels broadcasting from just across the border captured something else: a wave of grief sweeping southern Lebanon.

An attack on a secret weapons lab was one of the most daring Israeli operations against the Iranian proxy group in years, covert in name only.

The Israeli army said Wednesday that it eliminated a member of Hezbollah's “Golan Network” in southwestern Syria in an airstrike. “The army struck and eliminated Adham Jahout, a member of Hezbollah’s ‘Golan Network,’ Hezbollah’s cell in Syria, in the area of Quneitra,” a statement said.