Israel killed four people, including two women, in southern Lebanon Sunday, the Health Ministry said, marking a fresh violation of a cease-fire in place.
Israeli military, however, claimed it retaliated for alleged Hezbollah drone attacks, within Lebanese territory occupied by its troops.
Despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire with Hezbollah agreed in June, the Israeli military is operating in what it has declared as a security zone in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s Health Ministry said Sunday that two men were killed in a town on the edge of the zone occupied by Israeli troops, while the two women were killed in Arab Salim, which sits well north of the occupied area.
The Israeli military had issued an online evacuation warning at 6 a.m. local (3 a.m. GMT) for areas near a building in Arab Salim that it said it would strike because it was being used by Hezbollah. Two girls were among six others injured in that strike.
