ISTANBUL

An Israeli drone strike killed one person Monday outside his home in the southern Lebanese village of Hanine in the Bint Jbeil district, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.

The news agency identified the victim as Mohammad Tahsin Hussein Qashqash, who it said was targeted in the morning as he prepared to start his van parked in front of his house to transport students to school.

The drone fired several missiles at him, killing him and setting his van and a nearby sport utility vehicle on fire, the agency said.

Civil Defense crews extinguished the blaze and transferred the body to Salah Ghandour Hospital in Bint Jbeil, it added.

Separately, Israeli forces advanced in the early morning toward the outskirts of the villages of Aita al-Shaab and Ramyeh in the same district, where they rigged a house with explosives and detonated it, destroying it completely, the agency reported.

In a statement, the Israeli military said it targeted and killed a Lebanese man who was attempting to rebuild military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah in southern Lebanon.

The military did not identify the person killed.

It added that over the past week, forces from the 91st Division killed three people, claiming they were Hezbollah members working to restore the group's military infrastructure.

The division also destroyed several buildings and engineering vehicles that Hezbollah used to advance what the military claimed as “hostile plans” in southern Lebanon, the military said.

The Lebanese government and Hezbollah did not immediately comment on the Israeli military’s statement.

The attacks come amid repeated Israeli violations of a ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024.

Israel continues to occupy five Lebanese hilltops seized during the latest war that began in October 2023, in addition to other Lebanese areas it has held for decades.

The offensives have killed more than 4,000 victims and wounded 17,000 in Lebanon.

*Writing by Lina Altawell