Israeli airstrike kills 7, injures 3 in southern Lebanon despite ceasefire

At least seven people were killed and three others injured in an Israeli airstrike on a house in southern Lebanon early Saturday, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported, Anadolu reports.

Israeli warplanes struck the house on the outskirts of the town of Ansar, in the Nabatieh district, toward the nearby town of Zrariyeh, destroying the building, the agency said.

Emergency and rescue teams were working to remove rubble and recover the bodies and injured from the site, transferring the casualties to hospitals in Nabatieh.

The attack was the first Israeli airstrike to reach this geographical depth inside Lebanon since a ceasefire took effect two months ago, according to NNA.

Separately, Israeli warplanes carried out a series of airstrikes targeting the Ali al-Taher hills on the outskirts of Nabatieh al-Fawqa, the agency reported.

Later, the Israeli army claimed in a statement that it struck Hezbollah infrastructure in the Nabatieh and Ansar areas of southern Lebanon in response to an action by the group against Israeli soldiers operating on the Ali al-Taher hills.

Despite the signing of a framework agreement between Beirut and Tel Aviv on June 26 under US sponsorship, Israel continues its assault on Lebanon, which began on March 2 and has killed 4,335 people and injured 12,277 others.

The agreement provides for a gradual Israeli withdrawal from all occupied Lebanese territory in exchange for the deployment of the Lebanese army there, as well as the disarmament of armed groups, with reference to Hezbollah.

Israel occupies areas in southern Lebanon, some for decades and others since the previous war between 2023 and 2024, while during the current assault, it advanced more than 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) into Lebanese territory.