At least one killed as Israeli strikes pummel southern Lebanon

Lebanese authorities media reports civilian casualties aft Israeli onslaught connected residential flat gathering successful Nabatieh.

At slightest 1 idiosyncratic has been killed and much than a twelve others were wounded successful Israeli aerial attacks connected confederate Lebanon, the wellness ministry has said, arsenic the Israeli subject said it struck sites linked to the equipped radical Hezbollah.

In a study connected Friday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency cited the country’s wellness ministry saying that a pistillate and 13 different radical were targeted successful an aerial raid that deed a residential flat gathering successful Nabatieh. Seven others were wounded successful aerial raids connected the outskirts of the city, it added.

The Israeli service said its fighters attacked an underground tract utilized by Hezbollah for its occurrence and defence strategy successful Belfort, a tract successful the Nabatieh governorate. The subject said it identified attempts by the Lebanese radical to resume activities determination aft Israel had taken it retired of usage successful the past.

The resumption of activities determination would person been successful breach of the November truce agreed by the 2 sides, which halted much than a twelvemonth of occurrence exchanges and astir 2 months of an all-out war.

Later connected Friday, the Israeli service spokesperson said that Lebanese reports that an Israeli drone deed a residential building, causing civilian injuries, “were inaccurate”.

In a station connected X, Avichay Adraee said that “the detonation that damaged the civilian gathering was caused by a rocket located astatine the Hezbollah site, which detonated arsenic a effect of the Israeli strike”.

He accused Hezbollah of “continuing to store its assertive rockets adjacent residential buildings and Lebanese civilians, thereby putting them astatine risk”.

Footage shared connected societal media, and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency, shows ample plumes rising from the elevation wherever Israeli craft struck their target, arsenic the roar of jets is heard overhead.

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Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun connected Friday accused Israel of continually violating the US-brokered ceasefire woody by keeping up strikes connected Lebanon.

The ceasefire woody stipulates that confederate Lebanon indispensable beryllium escaped of immoderate non-state arms oregon fighters, Israeli soldiers indispensable permission confederate Lebanon arsenic Lebanese troops deploy determination and each occurrence crossed the Lebanese-Israeli borderline indispensable stop.

Israeli troops stay successful astatine slightest 5 posts wrong Lebanese territory and its aerial unit regularly launches aerial raids, which it claims people fertile and record Hezbollah members oregon radical affiliated with the group.

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