Lebanon’s health ministry said one person was killed and another wounded in an Israeli strike that hit a vehicle in the country’s south on Saturday, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah.
In a statement, the ministry said that an “Israeli enemy strike on a car in Haruf, Nabatiyeh district” killed one person and wounded another.
The Israel Defense Forces did not immediately comment on the strike, which Lebanese media said was carried out by a drone.
The military has repeatedly struck what it said were Hezbollah targets whose presence or actions violated the November 27 ceasefire, which ended over a year of conflict initiated by Hezbollah.
The reported IDF attack in Harouf, if confirmed, would follow several other Israeli attacks in Lebanon in recent days. On Friday, the IDF said it killed, in two separate strikes, a pair of Hezbollah operatives involved in restoring the terror group’s capabilities in south Lebanon.
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A series of Israeli raids on south and east Lebanon on Thursday also killed four people, including an elderly woman, Lebanese authorities said, with the IDF saying its targets included a weapons depot, a training camp, and military infrastructure.
Smoke rises following Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon’s Beqaa Valley on October 23, 2025. (Social media: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
And on Wednesday, the IDF said it assassinated a platoon commander in Hezbollah’s elite Radwan Force in southern Lebanon, accusing him of moving weapons and working on future attacks.
The US-brokered conflict with Hezbollah came after two months of open conflict in south Lebanon, which Israel invaded in a bid to ensure the return home of some 60,000 northerners displaced by Hezbollah’s near-daily attacks. The rocket attacks began on October 8, 2023 — a day after fellow Iran-backed terror group Hamas invaded southern Israel, sparking the war in Gaza.
The ceasefire required both Israel and Hezbollah to vacate southern Lebanon, to be replaced by the Lebanese armed forces. Israel has withdrawn from all but five strategic posts along the border.
IDF troops conduct a drill along the border with Lebanon, in a handout photo issued on October 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces)
Since the ceasefire, the IDF said it has killed over 300 Hezbollah operatives in strikes, hit hundreds of Hezbollah sites, and conducted over 1,000 raids and other small operations in southern Lebanon.
Weakened by the war and still facing regular Israeli strikes, Hezbollah is under internal and international pressure to hand over its weapons, with the Lebanese army having drawn up a plan to disarm it.
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