BEIRUT, Lebanon/ISTANBUL

An Israeli drone strike on Friday that targeted a vehicle in southern Lebanon’s Nabatieh district killed one person, state news agency NNA reported.

The drone fired a guided missile at a car near the eastern entrance of the town of Sayr al-Gharbiyeh, killing its driver.

The strike followed an incident a day earlier in which two Lebanese army personnel were killed and two others injured when a downed Israeli drone exploded while being inspected in the border town of Naqoura. The army said the blast killed an officer and a soldier, and left two more troops wounded.

Cross-border firing between Hezbollah and Israeli forces began in October 2023, after the Hamas attacks, and escalated into a full-scale war by September 2024, killing more than 4,000 people and injuring around 17,000.

A ceasefire was reached in November, but Israeli forces have conducted near-daily attacks in southern Lebanon since then, claiming to target Hezbollah activities.

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.