Two people were killed, and five others were wounded in three separate attacks by Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Saturday.
The strikes came one day after Israel's military launched on Friday one of its biggest attacks on Lebanon since a November 27 ceasefire went into effect, killing one civilian and wounding 25 others in the southern Lebanese city of Nabatiyeh.
On Saturday, one person was killed and another was injured in an Israeli drone attack that targeted a car in the town of Kounine, in the southern part of the country.
Later, an Israeli drone hit a motorcycle in the town of Mahrouna, in the Tyre district, south of Lebanon.
The driver, a member of Mahrouna municipality, was killed and two others were injured in the attack, as a passing vehicle was caught in the blast, according to the Lebanese Health Ministry.
Also on Saturday, four people were wounded in an overnight Israeli drone strike on a house in the southern town of Shaqra, in the Bint Jbeil district.
Israeli forces had also conducted sweeping operations using machine guns from the al-Bat mountain toward southern villages.
New Attack on UNIFIL Forces
Moreover, a video published on Saturday showed a group of people intercepting a patrol of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) in the so-called Marj al-Khoukh area, between Ebel al-Saqi and Khiam.
They asked the UNIFIL patrol to leave the town because it was not accompanied by the Lebanese army, according to Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, NNA.
Local sources said the persons that intercepted the UNIFIL patrol were not from Ebel al-Saqi, which is resided by Christians and Druze.
Later, Ebel al-Saqi Mayor, George Rahal, and the town's residents condemned in a statement the attack on the patrol.
They emphasized that “this incident completely contradicts the peaceful principles and ethics of the people of Ebel al-Saqi.”
A ceasefire deal between Israel and Hezbollah stipulates that southern Lebanon must be free of any non-state arms or fighters, Israeli troops must leave southern Lebanon as Lebanese troops deploy there and all fire across the Lebanese-Israeli border must stop.
Israeli troops remain in at least five posts within Lebanese territory and its air force regularly kills rank-and-file Hezbollah members or people affiliated with the group.
