An Israeli strike on southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, the Lebanese health ministry said, in the latest attack on the area despite a nearly the ceasefire. X
In a statement, the ministry said that an "Israeli enemy strike" on a motorcycle in Yater, south Lebanon, killed one person and wounded another.
A November 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of fighting between Israel and the Hezbollah, and Israel’s full-scale war on Lebanon.
Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite the truce, including attacks on the UN peacekeeping mission, UNIFIL.
On Saturday, the Israeli army said it had "temporarily" suspended a planned strike on a building in Yanuh, which it claimed as Hezbollah infrastructure.
The decision came after the Lebanese army "requested access again to the specified site... and to address the breach of the agreement", the Israeli army spokesman said.
According to the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to pull its forces north of the Litani River, some 30 kilometres from the border with Israel, and have its military infrastructure in the vacated area dismantled.
Under a government-approved plan, Lebanon's army is to conduct the dismantling south of the Litani by the end of the year, before tackling Hezbollah's weapons in the rest of the country.
In a televised speech on Saturday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem, who has repeatedly rejected attempts to disarm the group until the end of Israel's occupation, said "disarmament will not achieve Israel's goal" of ending resistance, "even if the whole world unites against Lebanon".
* This story has been edited by Ahram Online.
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