BEIRUT (AFP) – Lebanon’s Health Ministry said an Israeli strike yesterday in south Lebanon killed three people, as Israel said it struck Hezbollah operatives and after official media reported one dead in a separate overnight raid.
The strikes were the latest in a series of deadly attacks in south Lebanon despite a November ceasefire deal between Israel and militant group Hezbollah after more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war.
An “Israeli enemy strike on a car in Yohmor al-Shaqeef led to the death of three people”, said a Health Ministry statement reported by the National News Agency (NNA).
The NNA said an “enemy drone” targeted a vehicle near the town, in a strike that came at the same time as artillery shelling.
The Israeli military said in a statement that “several Hezbollah terrorists were identified transferring weapons in the area of Yohmor in southern Lebanon”, adding that the army “struck the terrorists”. The NNA earlier yesterday reported that “one person was killed and another wounded in the Israeli drone targeting… of a car in the town Maaroub”, elsewhere in south Lebanon.
