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Lebanon’s health ministry said on Sunday that an Israeli strike on the country’s south and east killed two people, the latest in a string of deadly attacks despite a ceasefire.

‘The Israeli enemy strike on a car in Naqoura in Tyre province led to the death of one person,’ the ministry said.


Another strike on a vehicle in Nabi Sheet in the country’s eastern Baalbek region killed one more person, the ministry said.

Despite a nearly year-long ceasefire, Israel has kept up strikes on Lebanon, often saying it is targeting Hezbollah positions.

The Israeli military did not immediately comment on Sunday’s strikes.

The Lebanese health ministry also said one person was wounded after war remnants exploded in the town of Aitaroun, in the south.

Israel has intensified strikes in recent weeks, with several deadly attacks launched over the past days.

The health ministry said two people were killed and another wounded in two Israeli strikes on the country’s south Saturday, with the Israeli military saying it killed Hezbollah fighters.

Another two were killed in strikes on Friday, and a series of Israeli raids on southern and eastern Lebanon on Thursday killed four people, including an elderly woman.

Last week, a United Nations special rapporteur said that deadly Israeli strikes on ostensibly civilian vehicles in Lebanon could amount to war crimes, despite Israel’s assertion they targeted Hezbollah members.

As part of last year’s ceasefire deal, Israeli troops were to withdraw from southern Lebanon and Hezbollah was to pull back north of the Litani River and dismantle any military infrastructure in the south.

Under US pressure and fearing an escalation of Israeli strikes, the Lebanese government has moved to begin disarming Hezbollah, a plan the movement and its allies oppose.

Despite the terms of the truce, Israel has kept troops deployed in five border points it deems strategic.

Israel has repeatedly bombed Lebanon despite a November ceasefire, which brought to an end more than a year of hostilities with the militant group Hezbollah that culminated in two months of open war.