UPDATE - 1 killed, 2 injured in Israeli strike in southern Lebanon in new violation of ceasefire

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By Rania Abushamala

BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (AA) - One person was killed and two 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 strike took place in the city of Tyre.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency (NNA) said an Israeli drone struck a vehicle on the city’s outskirts.

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

Later, the Lebanese group Hezbollah announced in a statement that Israel killed Al-Manar TV journalist Ali Nour al-Din in an airstrike Monday in Tyre that targeted his car.

It said that targeting Nour al-Din “warns of the danger of the enemy (Israel) persisting in its attacks to include the entire media sector in all its forms and designations.”

“We strongly condemn the treacherous assassination crime committed by the Israeli enemy against journalist Nour al-Din,” it added.

In a separate report, the agency said an Israeli tank targeted a house on the outskirts of the town of Aitaroun in Bint Jbeil district in southern Lebanon.

The Hreika area on the outskirts of Aitaroun was also hit by several mortar shells fired from a newly established Israeli military position in Jabal al-Bat, according to the agency.

Hundreds of Lebanese have been killed in Israeli ceasefire violations 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 around 17,000 others.