Lebanon said at least one person was killed in Israeli strikes on the country's south on Saturday despite a ceasefire with Hezbollah, after Israel's army issued an evacuation warning to several villages.
Israeli forces and Iran-backed Hezbollah have traded fire daily, mostly in southern Lebanon, despite the ceasefire agreement in effect since April 17.
Israel's military had called on residents of nine villages to evacuate, warning that it would act "forcefully" against Hezbollah after its "violation of the ceasefire agreement".
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said Israeli warplanes "launched a strike on the town of Zrariyeh" and several other areas included in the notice.
It reported casualties in a strike on a car on a road between two of the locations, and said Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling hit other areas of the south not mentioned in the warning.
The health ministry said an Israeli strike on a motorbike in the town of Nabatieh outside the evacuation areas hit "a Syrian national and his 12-year-old daughter".
"After they managed to move away from the site of the first strike, the drone attacked a second time," killing the father, the ministry said, while the drone then targeted the girl "directly for a third time", adding that she was undergoing life-saving surgery.
According to Lebanon’s National News Agency, the girl succumbed to injuries sustained in the attack.
AFP
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