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Israeli drone strike kills 2 Lebanese ‘arms smugglers’ amid renewed tensions
The latest attacks came as the EU voiced concern over Israel’s continued strikes despite its year-old ceasefire with Lebanon
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Israeli strikes in Lebanon killed three people and wounded several more on Saturday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with Israel announcing one of the attacks had hit arms smugglers from a group affiliated with Hezbollah.
The National News Agency reported that two brothers from the town of Shebaa were hit while driving on a road on the slopes of Mount Hermon in southeastern Lebanon, “causing their SUV to catch fire and resulting in their deaths”.
The Israeli military confirmed that they had conducted a drone strike near Shebaa and killed two smugglers from the “Lebanese Resistance Brigades”, a group allied to the militant organisation Hezbollah.
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“The terrorists were involved in smuggling weapons used by Hezbollah and their activities constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the Israeli military said.
“The IDF [military] will continue to operate in order to remove any threat posed to the State of Israel,” it warned.
Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed the death toll in Shebaa, later reporting that another strike on a car in the southern village of Baraashit had killed one person and wounded four.
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