Israeli airstrike kills 1, injures 3 in southern Lebanon

By Ikram Kouachi

One person was killed and three others injured on Friday in an Israeli airstrike in southern Lebanon, according to the Health Ministry.

In a statement, the ministry’s emergency operations center said the strike targeted a car in front of Tibnin Governmental Hospital in the town of the same name.

It said the figures were an initial toll as medical teams were still responding at the scene.

Israel has carried out near-daily strikes on southern Lebanon since the outbreak of its war on Gaza on Oct. 7, leading to hundreds of deaths and mass displacement along the border region.

A ceasefire was reached in November 2024 following an exchange of cross-border attacks between the Hezbollah group and Israel since October 2023. The exchange escalated into a full-scale Israeli war by September 2024, killing more than 4,000 people and injuring around 17,000.

Under the truce, Israel was supposed to fully withdraw from southern Lebanon by January, but it only partially pulled out troops and maintains a military presence at five border outposts.