Israel has continued to conduct near-daily strikes in Lebanon despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah last November.Lebanon’s Health Ministry says two people have been killed in separate Israeli drone strikes in southern Lebanon, with Israel announcing that both of those killed were Hezbollah members.
One attack targeted a vehicle travelling on a road between the border villages of Aita ash-Shaab and Rmeish, while an attack earlier in the day struck a car south of the coastal city of Sidon.
“The attack carried out by the Israeli enemy against a car on the Sidon-Ghaziyeh road resulted in one dead,” a Lebanese health ministry statement said on the fourth straight day of Israeli attacks in the south.
Despite a ceasefire last November that sought to halt more than a year of conflict between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah, Israel has continued to conduct near-daily strikes in Lebanon.
Israel’s military said it had “conducted a precise strike in the area of Sidon and eliminated the Hezbollah terrorist Muhammad Jaafar Mannah Asaad Abdallah”.
It said Abdallah was “responsible, among other things, for the deployment of Hezbollah’s communication systems throughout Lebanon”. Advertisement
On Friday evening, it announced “a Hezbollah terrorist was struck and eliminated by the IDF [military] in the area of” Aita al-Shaab.
The Lebanese group has not yet commented on the killings.
An AFP journalist said the Israeli attack in Sidon hit a four-wheel-drive vehicle, sending a pillar of black smoke into the sky.
At the scene of the strike, members of the security forces stood guard as a crowd gathered to look at the charred remains of th …
