Israeli military says it carried out an air strike in southern Lebanon
The Israeli military claims to have eliminated a Hezbollah antitank commander earlier today in the town of Kunin in southern Lebanon. Hezbollah has not commented on the claim.
On Friday, at least one person was killed and more than a dozen others wounded in Israeli air attacks in the same area of southern Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry.
After the attack, Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun accused Israel of continually violating the US-brokered ceasefire deal by keeping up strikes on Lebanon.
The ceasefire deal stipulates that southern Lebanon must be free of any non-state arms or fighters, Israeli soldiers must leave southern Lebanon as Lebanese troops deploy there, and all fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border must stop.
Israeli troops remain in at least five posts within Lebanese territory, and its air force regularly launches air raids, which it claims target rank and file Hezbollah members or people affiliated with the group.
The aftermath of Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon on Friday
At least two killed in Israeli attack on south Lebanon
Lebanon’s Public Health Emergency Operations Center, affiliated with the country’s Ministry of Public Health, says in a statement that an Israeli attack on a motorcycle in the village of Mahrouna has killed two people.
One of those killed was a woman, who succumbed to “severe wounds”, according to the statement. Three other people were also wounded in the attack.
