Two individuals had been killed Monday in an Israeli strike on a car in southern Lebanon, in accordance with the well being ministry, with a Lebanese safety supply saying the automobile belonged to a UN-contracted firm.
Hamas ally Hezbollah has exchanged near-daily cross-border fireplace with the Israeli military because the Palestinian group attacked Israel on October 7, triggering conflict in Gaza.
“The Israeli enemy’s strike concentrating on a automobile in Naqura left two lifeless,” the well being ministry mentioned, with out specifying whether or not they had been civilians.
A safety supply, talking to AFP on situation of anonymity, mentioned the automobile “belonged to a cleansing firm beneath contract with the United Nations peacekeeping drive in Lebanon (UNIFIL)”, deployed alongside the border with Israel.
The 2 victims had been “an worker of this firm and his cousin, each from Naqura”, a city alongside Lebanon’s border with Israel, in accordance with the supply.
“The cousin, who lives in an African nation, arrived in Lebanon two days in the past,” the supply added.
Hezbollah’s Al-Manar tv channel reported that the 2 lifeless in Naqura had been civilians, whereas Lebanon’s official Nationwide Information Company (NNA) reported a drone strike on the Naqura highway, with out giving additional particulars.
An AFP photographer noticed the burned-out automobile.
Israel says it’s concentrating on army infrastructure and Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon’s south and east, whereas the Iran-backed motion says it’s primarily concentrating on army positions in northern Israel.
Greater than 110,000 individuals have been displaced from southern Lebanon because of the cross-border preventing, in accordance with the UN.
In Israel, authorities say round 100,000 individuals have been displaced within the nation’s north.
The violence since October has killed some 609 individuals in Lebanon, principally Hezbollah fighters however together with at the least 132 civilians, in accordance with an AFP tally.
On the Israeli facet, together with within the annexed Golan Heights, authorities have introduced the deaths of at the least 24 troopers and 26 civilians.
