Two killed in Israel's attacks on south as strikes continue overnight
Israeli strikes on south Lebanon on Sunday have killed two people, the health ministry reported, with Israel's military saying it struck Hezbollah targets.
Israel has kept up regular strikes in Lebanon despite a November 2024 truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, usually saying it is targeting members of the Iran-backed group or its infrastructure.
In a statement, Lebanon's health ministry said "an Israeli enemy raid" near the town of Khirbet Selm killed one person and wounded another five.
It said a separate strike in the village of Derdghaya killed one more person.
The Israeli army said it struck a "weapons manufacturing site" in the area of Khirbet Selm where it had "identified the terrorist activity of Hezbollah operatives".
It also reported a strike in the Derdghaya area, saying that "in response to Hezbollah's repeated violations of the ceasefire understandings", it carried out an attack on a member of the group there.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that one of the strikes in the south targeted a hangar, while the one in Derdghaya targeted a car.
The Israeli army said it struck "military infrastructure sites belonging to Hezbollah" in the eastern Bekaa area as well.
The attacks in the east hit mountains near the town of Nabi Sheet and al-Jabbour in west Bekaa, NNA said.
Later on Sunday and overnight into Monday, Israeli warplanes targeted with a series of airstrikes al-Rihan mountains, Jabal Safi, and a region between al-Rihan and Loueizeh in the Jezzine district in south Lebanon.
More than 350 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since the ceasefire, according to an AFP tally of health ministry reports.
Source: Agence France Presse
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