Smoke billows following an Israeli airstrike in the southern Lebanese border village of Chihine on July 28, 2024. AFP
The report came as Israel mulls its response to a rocket attack over the weekend that killed 12 children and teenagers in Majdal Shams town in the Israel-occupied Golan Heights.
Lebanese state media said a Monday morning strike hit a motorcycle travelling close to the Lebanon-Israel border, killing two riders and injuring a child.
No more information about the dead or injured was immediately available.
Also Monday, two were injured in a separate strike in southern Lebanon, Lebanese state media reported.
Israeli military officials said only that the military had struck Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure but did not give more information.
Israel has accused Hezbollah of firing a rocket and killing 12 children and teenagers in an attack on a football field in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights. Hezbollah has, however, denied any responsibility for the attack.
Since early October, violence has flared across the border between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. Israel’s military says the weekend attack on Majdal Shams marked the deadliest since Oct. 7, raising fears of a broader regional war.
Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati has held “intensive diplomatic contacts after the recent Israeli threats against Lebanon,” including a call with British Foreign Secretary David Lammy, who “renewed the call on all parties to exercise restraint to prevent escalation,” Mikati’s office said in a statement.
Lammy posted on social media site X that he had called Mikati “to express my concern at escalating tension and welcomed the Government of Lebanon’s statement urging for cessation of all violence.”
“We both agreed that widening of conflict in the region is in nobody’s interest,” he said.
Also on Monday, Hezbollah’s head of foreign relations, Ammar Moussawi, met with Lebanese Foreign Minister Abdallah Bou Habib, according to a Lebanese diplomat and a Hezbollah official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to comment publicly on the matter.
The diplomatic official said there had also been a flurry of calls by Amos Hochstein, a senior advisor to U.S. President Joe Biden who frequently handles delicate negotiations in Lebanon, attempting to ensure that the Israeli and Hezbollah’s responses would not spiral into an all-out war.
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