Four people were killed by an Israeli drone strike on a vehicle in southern Lebanon yesterday, Lebanon’s state news agency reported, testing a fragile ceasefire in the conflict between Iran-backed Hizbollah and Israel.
The Israeli military said it was checking the report. Lebanon has suffered the deadliest spillover of the US-Iran conflict since the Lebanese group Hizbollah opened fire in support of Tehran on March 2, triggering an Israeli offensive and invasion of southern Lebanon.
After several ceasefire announcements since April, violence abated significantly last month, as Iran insisted on its demand for a Lebanon ceasefire in talks with the US, and as Israel scaled back attacks in Lebanon at Washington’s behest.
Lebanese security sources said yesterday’s strike marked the deadliest Israeli attack in several weeks. Lebanon’s National News Agency identified those killed as the principal of a school in the town of Nabatieh Al Fawqa, her mother, their foreign domestic worker and a Syrian labourer.
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