1 killed, 2 injured in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire violations

By Rania Abushamala

BEIRUT, Lebanon/ISTANBUL (AA) – One person was killed and two others were injured in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon on Monday, in a new violation of a ceasefire deal in effect since November 2024, the Lebanese Health Ministry said.

In a statement, the ministry’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center said the casualties were reported in the strike that targeted Tyre city in the country’s south.

The state news agency NNA said that an Israeli drone hit a vehicle on the city’s outskirts.

The broadcaster said an Israeli drone also flew over the Zahrani and Bisariyeh areas in southern Lebanon, while another drone dropped a sound bomb on a marble factory on the Adissa-Markaba road in the south.

Israeli ceasefire violations have killed and wounded hundreds of Lebanese, while Israel continues to occupy five Lebanese hilltops seized during the latest war, in addition to other Lebanese areas it has held for decades.

Israel began military operations against Lebanon in October 2023 and escalated them into a full-scale war in September 2024, killing more than 4,000 people and wounding about 17,000 others.