Lebanon says fresh Israeli strike on south kills one

An Israeli strike in southern Lebanon killed one person on Saturday, Lebanon’s health ministry said, in the latest attack despite a nearly year-long ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.

In a statement, the ministry attributed the death to “an Israeli enemy strike” on a vehicle in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.

The ministry also reported that a grenade dropped by an Israeli drone in the southern town of Shaqra wounded five people.

Lebanon’s official National News Agency (NNA) reported several more strikes elsewhere in the south and east, but no casualties reported so far.

The Israeli military said it struck “several Hezbollah launchers that were recently identified and placed in military sites in southern Lebanon.”

The army also hit “two Hezbollah military sites… including weapons storage facilities and additional military structures,” according to its statement.

It did not immediately comment on the deadly incident in Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.

The NNA identified the man killed as Kamel Reda Qarnabash, saying he was driving at the time.

The Israeli army earlier on Saturday had said that it killed a Hezbollah member in a strike the day before.

“In a targeted strike the (Israeli army) eliminated a Hezbollah terrorist in the Froun area in southern Lebanon” on Friday, the military said in a statement.

It alleged the Hezbollah member had “advanced terror attacks against the State of Israel” and its forces.

The Lebanese health ministry said Friday that an Israeli strike on a vehicle in Froun killed one person.

Continued attacks

Lebanon has accused Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024 – which sought to halt more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah – by continuing its strikes and maintaining forces inside its territory.

Israel has said Hezbollah is working to rebuild its military capabilities, accusing the Iran-backed group of breaking the ceasefire terms.

According to the health ministry, more than 330 people have been killed in Lebanon and 945 wounded since the ceasefire.

An Israeli strike on Tuesday night on the Ain al-Hilweh camp for Palestinian refugees in southern Lebanon killed 13 people.

On Friday, Israel said it had targeted “terrorists” from the Palestinian militant group Hamas, allied with Hezbollah, in the strike on the camp on the outskirts of the coastal city of Sidon.

Israel’s military “is operating against Hamas’s establishment in Lebanon,” it said in Friday’s statement.

A secondary school in the camp said in a statement on its Facebook page on Thursday that two of its students were killed, publishing an image of two adolescent boys.

The United States has sought to pressure the Lebanese government to make Hezbollah hand over its weapons, which the group has so far refused to do.