File photo : Smoke billows after an Israeli airstrike on the southern Lebanese village of Sejoud . AFP
The strikes were the latest in a series of deadly Israeli attacks in south Lebanon despite a November ceasefire deal in Lebanon after more than a year of hostilities including two months of open Israeli war on Lebanon.
An "Israeli enemy strike on a car in Yohmor al-Shaqeef led to the death of three people", said a health ministry statement reported by the National News Agency.
The NNA said an "enemy drone" targeted a vehicle near the town, in a strike that came at the same time as artillery shelling.
The Israeli army claimed in a statement that several Hezbollah fighters were identified transferring weapons in the area of Yohmor in southern Lebanon, adding that the army "struck the terrorists".
The NNA earlier Thursday reported that "one person was killed and another wounded in the Israeli drone targeting... of a car in the town Maaroub", elsewhere in south Lebanon.
Israel has continued to carry out raids in Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire, striking what it claims are Hezbollah military targets that violated the agreement.
Earlier this month, the health ministry said an Israeli strike killed two people in the Yohmor area.
Last weekend saw the most intense escalation since the truce, with Israeli strikes on south Lebanon killing eight people.
Israel said those raids were in response to rocket fire, the first to hit its territory since the ceasefire.
No party has claimed responsibility for the rocket fire, which a military source said originated north of the Litani River, between the villages of Kfar Tebnit and Arnoun, near the zone covered by the ceasefire deal.
Under the ceasefire, Israel was to withdraw its forces across the UN-demarcated Blue Line, the de facto border, but still holds five positions in south Lebanon that it deems "strategic".
Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said Wednesday: "We will not accept the continued (Israeli) occupation".
"There is no room for normalisation or surrender in Lebanon," he said in a televised address.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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