Lebanon said Israeli strikes killed two people on Monday, the latest such raids despite a November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and with the group under pressure to disarm.
Lebanon’s health ministry said that “an Israeli enemy strike on an excavator in the town of Sohmor” in the eastern Bekaa Valley region killed one person.
A separate “Israeli enemy strike on a water tanker in Nabatiyeh al-Fawqa”, in south Lebanon, also killed one person, the ministry said, adding that another was wounded in a strike in south Lebanon’s Aitaroun.
Israel has kept up attacks on Lebanon, usually saying it is targeting Hezbollah operatives or sites, despite the truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities including two months of open war with the Iran-backed group.
It has also kept troops in five areas of south Lebanon that it deems strategic.
Under intense US pressure and fears of expanded Israeli strikes, Lebanon is seeking to disarm Hezbollah, and the army has drawn up a plan to do so beginning in the country’s south.
But on Saturday, Hezbollah chief Naim Qassem said the group would not disarm as he addressed supporters while marking one year since Israel’s killing of his predecessor Hassan Nasrallah.
The following day, the Israeli military said it struck weapons depots belonging to the group in south Lebanon.
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