Israeli drone strikes house in southern Lebanon amid ceasefire violations
BEIRUT
An Israeli drone launched an airstrike Wednesday on a house in the village of Yahmor al-Shuqayf in southern Lebanon, with no immediate reports of casualties.
The Lebanese National News Agency reported that the drone targeted the house with a guided missile in the village that is located in the Nabatieh Governorate.
The news agency added that the house had previously been destroyed in an earlier Israeli airstrike during the aggression on Lebanon.
The strike is part of Israel’s repeated violations of a ceasefire agreement with Lebanon, coinciding with the return of displaced people to southern towns.
Fourteen people were injured Tuesday in an Israeli drone strike on the town of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
Israel continued its violations on Wednesday, injuring nine people and arresting four in southern Lebanon, bringing the number of ceasefire breaches to 806, according to an Anadolu report based on Lebanese news sources.
Tensions have escalated as the Israeli army remained in the Lebanese territory after a 60-day deadline for its withdrawal from southern Lebanon that passed Sunday under a ceasefire agreement.
The US, however, said that Israel and Lebanon have agreed to an extension of the deadline until Feb. 18.
At least 26 people have been killed and 221 injured by Israeli gunfire since Sunday as residents try to return to their villages in southern Lebanon, according to local health authorities.
The fragile cease-fire has been in place since Nov. 27, ending a period of mutual shelling between Israel and the Lebanese resistance group, Hezbollah, that began Oct. 8, 2023, and escalated into a full-scale conflict Sept. 23 last year.
Data from the Lebanese Health Ministry indicates that since Israel’s onslaught against Lebanon began in 2023, at least 4,080 people have been killed, including women, children and health workers, while 16,753 have been injured.
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