Six people were killed in Lebanon in the past two days in Israeli strikes against Hezbollah members.
Lebanon’s state news agency said an Israeli drone strike in the country’s south hit a car, killing two people on Thursday afternoon in the village of Baraachit.
The National News Agency gave no further details and it was not immediately clear if the two killed were members of Hezbollah. Israel's military said the strike targeted two members of the party.
Israel had earlier in the day fired artillery at Baraachit.
Also on Thursday, the Israeli army said it targeted Hezbollah members as they were transferring weapons in the Yohmor area in the South.
The NNA said one person was killed overnight on Thursday in an Israeli drone strike on a car in the town of Maaroub in the Tyre region.
Meanwhile, head of Hezbollah’s parliamentary bloc MP Mohammed Raad said the party’s priority at the moment “lies in ending the Israeli occupation, kicking off reconstruction, consolidating sovereignty, achieving the desired reform, and ensuring national partnership.”
“The resistance in Lebanon has and will always be the resistance against occupation and injustice, and against invaders and violators,” he declared.
“The resistance has made major achievements (...) and repelled Israel’s world war against Lebanon in 2006 and defeated it,” he added.
The “support front” Hezbollah had launched in solidarity with Gaza on October 8, 2023, “was a preemptive move aimed at protecting Lebanon, the resistance and its people,” he went on to say.
Moreover, Raad said Hezbollah has been firmly committed to the ceasefire since it went into effect in November “even though it knew that the enemy will not respect it and despite its violations that have been ongoing since day one.”
Furthermore, he stressed that the “resistance was never an alternative to the state in assuming responsibility. Rather, it aided it in protecting Lebanon and forcing the enemy to withdraw” from occupied territories.
The resistance also helped the state “preserve national sovereignty and dignity,” he added.
Now, the new government is prioritizing reform, “and we will help it in achieving that,” remarked Raad.
