UPDATES DEATH TOLL, ADDS DETAILS, CHANGES HEADLINE, DECK
By Anadolu staff
BEIRUT (AA) – Two people were killed and an army soldier was injured in three Israeli attacks in Lebanon on Monday despite a cease-fire deal between the two countries, local media said.
An Israeli drone fired two missiles into a motorcycle in Jdaidet Marjeyoun area in southern Lebanon, leaving one person dead, the state news agency NNA reported.
The Lebanese State Security Directorate said that a security personnel was killed in a drone strike in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.
In a statement, the directorate called the attack "a blatant violation of the cease-fire agreement," and "a dangerous escalation."
An army soldier was also injured when another drone strike targeted a Lebanese bulldozer while carrying out some work inside the Abbara military site in the Hosh Sayyed Ali-Hermel area in eastern Lebanon, NNA said.
The attacks came shortly after the army said that the body of a Lebanese officer who had been unaccounted for since Nov. 26 after an Israeli airstrike was found in Naqoura town in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, for his part, asked the committee supervising the cease-fire with Israel to oblige Tel Aviv to stop its violations of the deal and withdraw from the Lebanese territories.
On Nov. 27, a cease-fire agreement between Lebanon and Israel took effect, ending over 14 months of fighting between the Israeli army and Hezbollah.
Lebanese media reported around 73 Israeli violations of the cease-fire deal since it came into force last week.
Hezbollah has so far remained silent to the Israeli violations of the deal.
Under the terms of the cease-fire, Israel will withdraw its forces south of the Blue Line de facto border in a phased manner while the Lebanese army deploys its forces in southern Lebanon within a period that does not exceed 60 days.
Implementation of the agreement will be overseen by the US and France, but details on enforcement mechanisms remain unclear.
More than 3,960 people have been killed and more than 16,500 injured in Israeli attacks in Lebanon and over 1 million displaced since October last year, according to Lebanese health authorities.
*Writing by Ahmed Asmar in Ankara