Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike in the south of the country killed one person on Tuesday, the latest such attack despite a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
“A drone strike carried out by the Israeli enemy on a vehicle in the town of Aitaroun killed one person and injured three others, including a child,” the health ministry said in a statement.
Israel has continued to strike Lebanon since the November 27 ceasefire agreement that largely halted more than a year of fighting with Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of all-out war.
The UN human rights office said on Tuesday that “at least 71 civilians have been killed by Israeli troops in Lebanon since the ceasefire took effect.”
“The casualties include 14 women and nine children,” Tamin Al-Kitan, a spokesman for the office, told reporters in Geneva, calling for “an immediate end to the violence.”
The truce agreement was based on a UN Security Council resolution that said Lebanese troops and United Nations peacekeepers should be the only forces in southern Lebanon and called for the disarmament of all non-state groups.
Under the terms of the truce, Hezbollah was to withdraw its fighters from the southern bank of Lebanon’s Litani River and dismantle all remaining military infrastructure there.
Israel was supposed to withdraw all its forces from southern Lebanon, but it continues to hold five positions it considers “strategic.”
