BEIRUT: The Zionist entity’s military claimed it killed two Hezbollah militants Sunday in two separate strikes on Lebanon, its latest deadly raids in the country more than three months into a fragile ceasefire. The Lebanese health ministry confirmed one person was killed in a Zionist entity strike and state media reported the other fatality. Lebanese authorities didn’t say whether the victims were Hezbollah members.
The National News Agency reported that a Zionist entity drone carried out "a strike on a vehicle in the town of Meiss El Jabal, resulting in one fatality”. The agency said it was the third Zionist entity strike on southern Lebanon within 24 hours. Earlier on Sunday, the health ministry said a Zionist drone strike killed one person and wounded another when it targeted a four-wheel-drive vehicle near Yater in Bint Jbeil district at around 2:00 am, the NNA reported. "The (Zionist) enemy’s air strike on a vehicle in the town of Yater resulted in the martyrdom of a citizen and the injury of another,” the ministry said in a statement carried by NNA.
It comes a day after the ministry said one person was killed in a Zionist entity strike on a vehicle in the southern border town of Burj Al-Muluk. Following that raid, the Zionist entity military said it "struck a Hezbollah terrorist who took part in terrorist activity in the area of Kfarkela in southern Lebanon”. And on Tuesday, the Zionist entity military said it carried out a strike in southern Lebanon that killed a senior Hezbollah militant.
That came as Lebanon received four detainees who had been taken to the entity during fighting with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, with a fifth detainee, a soldier, released on Thursday after he was taken earlier this month. A November 27 truce largely halted more than a year of hostilities between Hezbollah and the entity, including two months of full-blown war in which the entity sent in ground troops.
The entity has continued to carry out periodic strikes on Lebanese territory since the agreement took effect. The entity had also been due to withdraw from Lebanon by February 18 after missing a January deadline, but it has kept troops at five locations it deems "strategic”. The ceasefire also required Hezbollah to pull back north of the Litani River, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the border, and to dismantle any remaining military infrastructure in the south. — AFP
