One dead, seven wounded in Israel’s latest attack on Lebanon
We are receiving updates on the Israeli attack on southern Lebanon that we reported earlier. The attack has killed one person, wounded seven and briefly cut a highway that links Beirut with parts of southern Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry.
The predawn air attacks on the village of Msayleh struck a place that sold heavy machinery, destroying a large number of vehicles. A vehicle carrying vegetables that happened to be passing by at the time of the strikes was hit, killing one person and wounding another, according to Hezbollah’s Al-Manar TV.
The Health Ministry later said that the person killed was a Syrian citizen, while the wounded were a Syrian national and six Lebanese.
Since the 14-month Israel-Hezbollah war ended in late November with a US-brokered ceasefire, Israel has carried out almost daily air strikes, killing dozens of people. Israel accuses Hezbollah of trying to rebuild its capabilities after the group suffered heavy losses during the war.
Lebanon’s president condemns latest attack as ‘Israeli aggression against civilian facilities’
Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has condemned Israel’s attack earlier today in the village of al-Najariyah, which killed at least one person.
“Once again, southern Lebanon is under fire from a blatant Israeli aggression against civilian facilities, without any justification or pretext,” Aoun was quoted as saying by Lebanon’s National News Agency.
“However, the danger of the latest aggression is that it comes after the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, and after the Palestinian side agreed to the mechanism included in this agreement to contain weapons and render them out of service.”
Israel has claimed it struck Hezbollah targets storing equipment used to restore infrastructure belonging to the Lebanese armed group.
