Israel conducts deadly strikes on southern Lebanon despite fragile ceasefire
Lebanon said one person was killed and six wounded on Saturday in a series of Israeli strikes in the south despite a ceasefire between Israel and militant group Hezbollah.
An "Israeli enemy drone strike on a vehicle" in the town of Bint Jbeil "killed one person and wounded two", Lebanon's health ministry said in a statement carried by the official National News Agency (NNA).
The Israeli military said in a statement that its forces "struck and eliminated" an operative from Hezbollah's elite Radwan force in the area.
The health ministry also reported one person wounded in a drone strike on another car in the same town, and two others seriously wounded in a similar raid on a vehicle in nearby Shaqra.
Also on Saturday, the ministry reported that a separate Israeli drone strike wounded one person in Shebaa, elsewhere in the south, with NNA reporting that a house was targeted.
Israel has kept up its bombardment of Lebanon since a November 27 ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with Hezbollah including two months of all-out war that left the Iran-backed group severely weakened.
Israel was required to fully withdraw its troops from the country, but has kept them in five places it deems strategic.
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