An Israeli strike on a vehicle in eastern Lebanon kills two people as the Lebanese army works to disarm Hezbollah in the south.
BEIRUT: An Israeli strike on a vehicle in eastern Lebanon killed two people on Thursday, Lebanon’s health ministry said.
The strike hit the town of Hawsh al-Sayyed Ali in the Hermel district near the border with Syria, according to the state-run National News Agency, which reported the raid targeted a van.
The NNA also reported that a man wounded in an Israeli strike last week near Beirut had died of his injuries.
It identified him as a member of Lebanon’s General Security agency who was passing the area when he was hit.
That earlier strike, on the Shouf district’s Jadra-Siblin road south of the capital, killed one person and wounded five others.
On Tuesday, Lebanon’s army said a soldier was among those killed in an Israeli strike a day earlier.
It denied the Israeli military’s accusation that the soldier was a Hezbollah operative.
Under heavy US pressure, Lebanon has committed to disarming the Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, starting in the south.
The army plans to complete the group’s disarmament south of the Litani River by year’s end.
Army chief Rodolphe Haykal told a military meeting on Tuesday that “the army is in the process of finishing the first phase of its plan”.
More than 340 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since a November 2024 ceasefire, according to an AFP tally.
