AFP – Two people were killed yesterday in an Israeli strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry, with a Lebanese security source saying the car belonged to a United Nations (UN)-contracted company.
Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fire with the Israeli army.
“The Israeli enemy’s strike targeting a car in Naqura left two dead,” the Health Ministry said, without specifying whether they were civilians.
A security source said the car “belonged to a cleaning company under contract with the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)”, deployed along the border with Israel.
The two victims were “an employee of this company and his cousin, both from Naqura”, a town along Lebanon’s border with Israel, according to the source.
“The cousin, who lives in an African country, arrived in Lebanon two days ago,” the source added.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television channel reported that the two dead in Naqura were civilians, while Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported a drone strike on the Naqura road, without giving further details. An AFP photographer saw the burned-out car.
Israel said it is targeting military infrastructure and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon’s south and east, while the movement said it is mainly targeting military positions in northern Israel.
More than 110,000 people have been displaced from southern Lebanon due to the cross-border fighting, according to the UN.
