Lebanon says two killed in new Israeli strikes

AFP , Wednesday 16 Apr 2025

Lebanon reported two dead in separate Israeli strikes on the country's south Wednesday despite a ceasefire between the two sides.

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File Photo: Lebanese security forces and rescue teams inspect a charred car that was hit by an Israeli drone strike near Naqoura on the border with Israel. AFP

 

A "drone strike launched by the Israeli enemy on a vehicle in Wadi al-Hujair killed one person", Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement, referring to an area around 12 kilometres (seven miles) from the border.

It later said a separate Israeli strike in Hanin, also near the border, "killed one person and wounded another".

The Israeli army claims its air force killed a member of Hezbollah's elite Radwan Force in the Qantara area, near Wadi al-Hujair.

Israel has continued to strike Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire that sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war on Lebanon and a series of assassinations.

The Lebanese health ministry also said that a 17-year-old wounded in an Israeli strike on south Lebanon's Aitaroun on Tuesday had died, bringing the toll in that raid to two dead.

The United Nations Human Rights Office said on Tuesday that "at least 71 civilians" had been killed by Israeli forces in Lebanon since the ceasefire.

Hezbollah lawmaker Hassan Fadlallah said last week that 186 people had been killed since the truce, without specifying how many were members of the group.

The truce accord was based on a UN Security Council resolution that says Lebanese troops and United Nations peacekeepers should be the only forces in south Lebanon, and calls for the disarmament of all non-state groups.

Under the truce, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters back north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.

Israel was to pull out all its forces from south Lebanon, however, it didn't withdraw fully and continues to occupy five positions.

Lebanon's army has been deploying in the south near the border as Israeli forces have withdrawn.

A source close to Hezbollah told AFP on Saturday that the group had ceded to the Lebanese army around 190 of its 265 military positions identified south of the Litani.

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