Three Israeli assaults hit Bint Jbeil, Shebaa and Chaqra.
Israel has carried out three drone assaults on cities in southern Lebanon, leading to a loss of life and a number of other injured, within the newest wave of near-daily Israeli violations of the November ceasefire between Israel and the Lebanese group Hezbollah.
An “Israeli enemy drone assault on a car” within the Saf al-Hawa space within the metropolis of Bint Jbeil “killed one individual and wounded two others”, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Well being mentioned in an announcement on Saturday carried by the official Nationwide Information Company (NNA), noting the toll was anticipated to rise.
Earlier Saturday, the ministry additionally reported {that a} separate Israeli drone assault wounded one individual in Shebaa, with the NNA saying that raid hit a home. Shebaa is situated throughout two steep, rocky mountainsides that straddle Lebanon’s borders with Syria and the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
Israel additionally launched a drone assault in town of Chaqra, within the Bint Jbeil District. Lebanon’s Well being Ministry mentioned two folks have been wounded within the assault.
بالفيديو: جريحان جراء الغارة على سيارة في بلدة شقرا https://t.co/nFqlLDgefI pic.twitter.com/iO1vlgQbh7
— Cedar Information (@cedar_news) July 5, 2025
Translation: Video: Two injured because of the air raid on a automotive within the city of Chaqra.
Israel has stored up its bombardment of Lebanon on a close to every day foundation, regardless of a November 27 US-brokered ceasefire that sought to finish greater than a yr of hostilities with Hezbollah, together with an intensive interval of the warfare that left the Iran-aligned group severely weakened.
Israel says its air raids are focusing on officers and services of Hezbollah and different teams. Hezbollah has claimed just one strike fired throughout the border for the reason that ceasefire.
A lot of the Israeli strikes have been in southern Lebanon, however Israel has additionally struck Beirut’s southern suburbs a number of instances for the reason that ceasefire, destroying residential buildings and prompting panic and chaos amongst residents fleeing the realm.
On Thursday, an Israeli strike on a car on the southern entrance of Beirut, near the nation’s solely industrial airport, killed one man and wounded three different folks, Lebanon mentioned, because the Israeli military claimed it hit a “terrorist” working for Iran.
Underneath the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah was to tug its fighters again north of the Litani River, about 30km (20 miles) from the Israeli border, leaving the Lebanese military and United Nations peacekeepers as the one armed events within the area.
Israel was required to totally withdraw its troops from the nation however has stored them in 5 places in southern Lebanon that it deems strategic.
Israel has warned that it’ll maintain attacking Lebanon till Hezbollah has been disarmed.
Almost 250 folks have been killed and 609 wounded in Israeli assaults in Lebanon between November 28 – the day after the ceasefire took impact – and the tip of June, in accordance with Lebanon’s Well being Ministry.
A United States envoy is predicted in Beirut early subsequent week to debate with Lebanon’s management efforts to stress Hezbollah to relinquish its arms to the state. Hezbollah has rejected a US proposal to disarm by November, calling it “suicidal” amid every day Israeli assaults.
Lebanon’s President Joseph Aoun has repeatedly known as on the US and France to rein in Israel’s assaults, noting that disarming Hezbollah is a “delicate, delicate difficulty”.
