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NextImg:Lebanon says two dead in Israel drone strike; mob attacks UN peacekeeper patrol

BEIRUT, Lebanon — An Israeli strike killed a Lebanese father and son Tuesday in a southern village, the Lebanese health ministry and state media said, the latest deaths despite a November ceasefire.

A second son was also wounded in the strike in Shebaa, the state-run National News Agency reported.

There was no immediate comment from the Israel Defense Forces.

“An Israeli enemy drone carried out a strike in the village of Shebaa, killing two people and wounding one,” a health ministry statement said.

The Al-Maydeen network, affiliated with terror group Hezbollah, reported that one of those killed was a soldier in the Lebanese army.

Israel had warned on Friday that it would keep up its strikes on Hezbollah targets across Lebanon despite the condemnation expressed by the Lebanese government after a massive strike on south Beirut the previous night on the eve of the Eid al-Adha holiday, following an evacuation warning.

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Iran-backed Hezbollah said the strikes leveled nine residential blocks. The Israeli military said they targeted underground drone factories after Lebanese authorities failed to act.

Israel has continued to carry out targeted strikes on Hezbollah operatives and infrastructure since it signed a ceasefire with Lebanon in late November, alleging violations of the truce agreement.

According to the IDF, over 180 Hezbollah operatives have been killed in that time.

The ceasefire agreement brought to an end more than a year of fighting with the Iran-backed Hezbollah, including two months of open war in southern Lebanon late last year.

Hezbollah began attacking military outposts and communities in northern Israel unprovoked on October 8, 2023, in a show of support for fellow Iranian proxy Hamas in Gaza after its assault on southern Israel a day earlier.

Under the terms of the ceasefire, Hezbollah was required to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River and dismantle all military infrastructure in southern Lebanon. Israel was to withdraw from Lebanon, while maintaining the right to attack threats to its security.

Since then, the Lebanese state has been working methodically to dismantle the terror group’s infrastructure in the south of the country, and is estimated to have seized the majority of the terror group’s weapons stockpile in the same area.

Meanwhile, the UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon, known by the acronym UNIFIL, reported that a mob pelted its soldiers as they were conducting a joint patrol with the Lebanese army on Tuesday.

“This morning, UNIFIL peacekeepers conducting a planned patrol coordinated with the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF) were confronted by a group of individuals in civilian clothing in the vicinity of Hallusiyat al Tahta, in southern Lebanon,” UNIFIL said in a statement. “The group attempted to obstruct the patrol using aggressive means, including throwing stones at the peacekeepers.”

It said one peacekeeper was hit, though “fortunately, no injuries were reported.”

Peacekeepers of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) ride in armored vehicles during a patrol along the border with Israel by the village of Kfar Kila in south Lebanon on June 4, 2025. (AFP)

The troops used “non-lethal measures to ensure the safety of both the patrol members and those present,” the statement continued, adding that “the situation was quickly brought under control,” after which the patrol continued.

“It is unacceptable that UNIFIL peacekeepers continue to be targeted,” it said and called on Lebanese authorities to  “take all necessary measures” to ensure that its peacekeepers can carry out operations without obstruction or threat.