At least five people were killed in an Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Arabsalim this morning, Lebanon’s state news agency NNA reports, despite a ceasefire agreed yesterday between Israel and the Hezbollah terror group.
NNA says Israeli planes and drones carried out a series of strikes across the Nabatieh area overnight and into the morning, destroying residential buildings and houses, while Israeli artillery shelled Nabatieh and its outskirts before dawn.
There is no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.
The strikes come after Israel and Hezbollah apparently agreed to a ceasefire hours after another flare-up in southern Lebanon that saw four Israeli soldiers killed and dozens of Lebanese casualties.
However, the renewed truce appeared as fragile as ever, as it didn’t see Israel pull out of the large buffer zone it established in southern Lebanon — one that Hezbollah has used to justify continued attacks on troops stationed there as well as on northern Israeli towns across the border.
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