At least one killed as Israeli strikes pummel southern Lebanon

The Israeli military said it attacked sites linked to Hezbollah, killing at least one person, and injuring more than a dozen others, according to the health ministry.

According to a report released on Friday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an air raid that hit a residential apartment complex in Nabatieh targeted a woman and 13 other people. In addition, the air raids carried out on the city’s fringes left seven people injured.

Hezbollah’s fire and defense system is housed underground, according to the Israeli army, in Belfort, which is located in the Nabatieh governorate. After Israel had previously stopped using it, the Lebanese group’s efforts to resume operations there were identified by the military.

The two parties’ agreement to resume activities there would have violated the November truce, which had put an end to more than a year of firefights and nearly two months of a total war.

Later on Friday, an Israeli army spokesman said that “the reports that an Israeli drone hit a residential building and injured civilians were untrue.”

Avichay Adraee stated in a post on X that “a rocket located at the Hezbollah site, which detonated as a result of the Israeli strike, caused the explosion that damaged the civilian building.”

He claimed that Hezbollah is continuing to store its provocative rockets close to residential buildings and Lebanese civilians, putting them in danger.

Large plumes rise from the hill where Israeli aircraft struck their target, as evidenced by footage that was shared on social media and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad fact-checking agency.

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Joseph Aoun, president of Lebanon, charged that Israel had continued to violate the US-brokered ceasefire agreement by continuing to bomb Lebanon.

According to the ceasefire agreement, Israeli soldiers must leave southern Lebanon as Lebanese troops are stationed there, and all fire that is fired across the Israeli-Lebanese border must stop.