Israeli strike on southern Lebanon injures 12

ISTANBUL

At least 12 Lebanese civilians were injured late Monday in an Israeli airstrike on a building in the city of Nabatieh in southern Lebanon in a new violation of a ceasefire agreement.

“The Israeli enemy’s strike on the Kassar Zaatar neighborhood in Nabatieh resulted, according to an initial toll, in 12 civilians being wounded, including four children and seven women,” Lebanon’s Health Ministry said in a statement.

Earlier, Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) reported that ambulance teams were transporting the wounded to hospitals in the area.

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.