Israeli attacks kill four in southern Lebanon

Raids connected a motortruck and a motorcycle successful the municipality of Yohmor al-Shaqif termination 4 people, authorities media report.

⁠Israeli attacks person killed astatine slightest 4 radical successful confederate Lebanon’s Nabatieh district, the authorities quality bureau reports, arsenic Israel continues to pummel the state successful defiance of a three-week extension of a ceasefire with Hezbollah.

In a connection connected Saturday, Lebanon Ministry of Public Health’s exigency operations centre said 2 Israeli raids connected a motortruck and a motorcycle successful the municipality of Yohmor al-Shaqif killed 4 people, the Lebanese National News Agency reported.

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Al Jazeera’s Heidi Pett, reporting from the metropolis of Tyre, said the attacks were carried retired northbound of the Litani River, beneath which Israel has unilaterally declared to beryllium operating.

Meanwhile, successful the metropolis of Bint Jbeil, besides successful confederate Lebanon, Israeli soldiers reportedly blew up buildings connected Saturday morning.

Al Jazeera correspondents connected the crushed separately reported bombings successful the metropolis of Khiam, including connected residential blocks.

Israel’s ongoing spree is “part of a continued signifier of Israeli subject activity, contempt what is ostensibly a ceasefire”, Pett said, adding that the “rumble and thud of explosions” could beryllium heard crossed confederate swaths of the country.

“That is Israel demolishing houses and buildings,” she said.

The attacks are the latest to stone confederate Lebanon since United States President Donald Trump announced the ceasefire extension connected Thursday. Within hours, the Israeli subject claimed it had “eliminated” six Hezbollah fighters successful an speech of occurrence adjacent Bint Jbeil.

Hezbollah lawmaker Ali Fayyad said the ceasefire was “meaningless successful airy of Israel’s insistence connected hostile acts, including assassinations, shelling, and gunfire”.

He added that Israeli attacks meant Hezbollah retains the “right to retaliate”.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel was “maintaining afloat state of enactment against immoderate threat” and claimed Hezbollah was “trying to sabotage” the pause.

Before Trump’s announcement, a canvass by the Israel Democracy Institute suggested that Jewish Israeli respondents overwhelmingly supported continuing the conflict, adjacent if it led to friction with the US.

The Lebanese enactment has rejected the anticipation of Lebanon being utilized arsenic a “bargaining chip” amid imaginable US-Israel negotiations with Iran, Pett said.

Lebanese civilians, meanwhile, are facing the fallout.

Huda Kamal Mansour, from Aitaroun colony successful confederate Lebanon, has been surviving with her nine-year-old lad successful an bare stadium successful Beirut on with different displaced families for the past 45 days.

She told Al Jazeera she ran for her beingness erstwhile the Israeli service started bombarding her neighbourhood.

“There was zero region betwixt america and the Israeli service erstwhile they attacked confederate Lebanon. All I could perceive was the dependable of explosions hitting villages. We were told to evacuate from the village, past the tanks surrounded us,” she recalled.

“Israel didn’t permission 1 location lasting there.”