Lebanese rescuers extinguish a fire at a site hit in Israeli strikes following evacuation orders in Beirut's southern suburbs. AFP
Aoun condemned an Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital earlier in the evening, and called on "the United States and France, as guarantors of the ceasefire agreement, to assume their responsibilities and compel Israel to halt its attacks immediately".
The Israeli strike hit south Beirut on Sunday after Israel ordered civilians to evacuate the densely populated district, an AFP journalist reported.
A plume of smoke billowed over a building in the Hadath neighbourhood after the strike, the journalist reported. It was the third time the southern suburbs of the Lebanese capital have been hit since a fragile ceasefire took effect between Israel and Hezbollah on November 27.
Earlier, Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli drone strike on a border town on Sunday killed one person.
In a statement, it reported "one martyr" from "the drone strike launched by the Israeli enemy on the town of Halta" in southern Lebanon.
Local media said the man was killed while working on his chicken farm.
Sunday’s attacks come as Israel continues to carry out regular strikes in Lebanon, despite a November truce aimed at halting more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war and an Israeli ground invasion.
A pair of Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed a militant leader on the coast south of Beirut and one person who Israel claimed was a local Hezbollah commander in south Lebanon's Tyre district.
Under the November deal, Hezbollah was to pull its fighters north of Lebanon's Litani River and dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south.
Israel was to withdraw all its forces from south Lebanon, but troops continue to occupy five positions they deem "strategic", in a blatant violation of the truce.
*This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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