Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon
Our colleagues at Al Jazeera Arabic are reporting that there has been an Israeli drone attack on the town of Shebaa in southern Lebanon. Shebaa is located across two steep, rocky mountainsides that straddle Lebanon’s borders with Syria as well as the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
One killed in southern Lebanon
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health is reporting that one person has been killed and two others injured in an Israeli drone attack in Bint Jbeil in southern Lebanon.
What has happened in southern Lebanon today?
Israel has carried out three drone attacks on towns in southern Lebanon, resulting in one death and several injuries.
- An “Israeli enemy drone attack on a vehicle” in the Saf al-Hawa area in the city of Bint Jbeil “killed one person and wounded two others”, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said in a statement carried by the official National News Agency (NNA).
- Earlier, the ministry also reported that a separate Israeli drone attack wounded one person in the town of Shebaa, with the NNA saying that the raid hit a house.
- Israel also launched a drone attack on the town of Chaqra, in the Bint Jbeil district. Lebanon’s Health Ministry said two people were wounded in the attack.
This is just the latest wave of near-daily Israeli violations of the November ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
Lebanese emergency responders inspect debris at the site of a reported Israeli strike on a vehicle in Khaldeh, south of the capital, Beirut, on July 3
