Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon kills school principal: NNA
An Israeli drone strike has killed one person after targeting Lebanon’s town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre.
The Lebanese government’s National News Agency confirmed that “an attack by an enemy drone” in al-Mansouri has “resulted in the martyrdom of its school principal, Muhammad Shweikh”.
The drone targeted an area near the football grounds of Imam Musa al-Sadr Stadium, the agency added, and spawned a fire.
A correspondent for Lebanese newspaper Al Akhbar said Shweikh was the principal of al-Mansouri Public School, and that the drone targeted his car.
What’s going on with the Israel-Lebanon conflict?
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon today add to a series of escalating violations of the ceasefire agreement that came into effect in November 2024. Here’s the latest:
- As we’ve been reporting, an Israeli drone strike targeted a car in the southern town of al-Mansouri, near Tyre, where Lebanon’s National News Agency says it killed a school principal.
- Israeli forces also shot at the UN Interim Force (UNIFIL) peacekeepers in the Hammis area of southern Lebanon. Israel claimed its soldiers mistook the UN patrollers for “suspects” amid “poor weather conditions”.
- UNIFIL is collaborating with the Lebanese army to sustain a peace agreement between Israel and Hezbollah – which brought an end to hostilities that exploded into full-blown war starting on October 8, 2023.
- Israel killed more than 4,000 people – largely civilians – during the year-long war, which also displaced more than a million people and saw villages razed to the ground.
- After a ceasefire was signed on November 27 last year, however, Israel has refused to withdraw from at least five areas of Lebanese territory and kept up its near-daily violations of the truce – a “no war, no peace” policy that it also appears to be practising in Gaza.
- Israel’s attacks have angered UNIFIL, which recently called for Israel to “cease any aggressive behavior and attacks on or near peacekeepers”.
