A civilian man of Syrian origin was killed, and several Syrian workers were injured as a result of the declared Israeli attack on 3 September 2025 on a bulldozer repair and maintenance complex in the village of Ansariyeh near Sidon in southern Lebanon. The struck site was referred to as a location consisting of a bulldozer repair and maintenance hangar where Syrian people, possibly part of the same family, worked and lived next to. According to Hussein Chaabane on Facebook, the complex was adjacent to residential buildings and a clinic.

The name of the person killed, Fayez al-Hassoun, was mentioned by Ansariyah account on Facebook. The post said: “The wounded Fayez al-Hassoun, from the Syrian community, has died from injuries sustained in the Israeli airstrike on the town of Ansariyeh two days ago.” An accompanying picture shows an elderly man with short grey hair, a short grey beard and a mustache. He wears a light blue blouse and looks into the camera with on the background a tree. According to this and other sources, Al-Hassoun was a Syrian national working at the warehouse.

Jawad Naseem Faqih was mentioned as one of the injured people of the attack in another post by Ansariyah website on Facebook. According to the source, “The boy, Jawad Naseem Faqih, sustained a leg injury from shrapnel at his home near the cemetery during last night’s airstrike. Thank God for his safety.” It published a picture of a child wearing green pants, a black shirt with a white ‘The North Face’ logo, sitting up on a stretcher/medical bed. His face is only half visible. On his right foot, he wears a black sneaker; his left leg and possibly foot are wrapped in bandages.

Several sources referred to more than one injured person. @bintjbeil.org (Facebook) wrote “injuries”, and @Hussein Chaabane (Facebook) reported that ‘others were injured. However, none of the sources mentioned information about the other possibly injured people.

Citing a statement by the Civil Defense Operations team of the Islamic Health Authority, Facebook user @Sada Kafartebnit posted: “Following the Israeli attack on a vehicle maintenance center in the area between the towns of Ansariyeh and Adloun, field emergency teams immediately moved to the site of the attack and evacuated a number of injured Syrian nationals to hospitals in the area. Firefighting teams also participated in combating the fires that broke out in the vehicles as a result of the attack. We pray for the safety and well-being of our honorable people.” An accompanying video showed an emergency worker extinguishing fire at the struck site.

The Facebook account @khadijeh.ayoub refers to the Syrian group of people as “an entire family (18 people).” According to the post, the alleged attack happened as “they were gathered in the courtyard of their home.” The video posted along with it shows a damaged interior of an apartment on the ground floor of a multi-story residential building. In the living room and kitchen lies rubble, just as outside on the veranda. The person filming then walks up to the terrace with seats and the garden. A few dozen of meters next to the garden, a large fire and smoke is seen. Behind it lies a busy road. More rubble and broken glass lie on the grass and a table with a black cover on it.

After the air strike, Avichay Adraee, the Israeli military’s Arabic-language spokesperson announced released an official statement on X/Twitter, referring to a struck site in Ansariyeh: “The IDF just struck a Hezbollah terrorist site in the village of Ansariyeh in southern Lebanon, which was used to store engineering equipment intended for the organization’s reconstruction and to advance terrorist plots.” As a result, this incident has been recorded as a ‘declared’ strike.

Other accounts, such as @Abbass H Tawil on Facebook, posted pictures showing several people standing in front of a site with fire and smoke. Several vehicles resembling bulldozers or other equipment are seen in or adjacent to the fire.

Al-Sarafand Media posted a video filmed from a moving vehicle passing by the fire and damaged construction vehicles. The accompanying text mentioned “enemy warplanes” having launched an “intensive attack” on the site.

A video posted by @LBCI Lebanon News on Facebook showed the alleged struck site filmed from a road close to it, showing large smoke columns coming from the fire and emergency services arriving at the site.

Several accounts, such as @Yajnoub 2 on Facebook, posted footage of the aftermath. In the video, dozens of damaged construction vehicles, equipment, tires, and other rubble on the ground.

Ansariyah’s account on Facebook also posted a picture showing three men bent over something or someone on the ground. It wrote: ‘Brother Hassan Ali Jaber wrote: From the midst of destruction… and amidst all the wounds and pain!! This picture from yesterday proves and confirms that only a brother from the message can heal the wounds of the organization. And the opposite is also true!! Let all the voices of discord be silenced. And praise be to God for the blessing of unity!! Peace’.

Although the Israeli military declared the strike on Ansariyeh, it fell short of acknowledging the civilian harm resulting from it. Hence, Airwars has graded the strike status of the incident as “declared”, and the civilian harm status as “fair.”