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An Israeli airstrike on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed several members of the Lebanese military, including a senior officer, the Lebanese army said, days after the two sides reached a new ceasefire deal.
The airstrike on the road linking the city of Nabatieh with the town of Marjayoun occurred in the morning. The army did not give further details or release the names or ranks of the troops killed.
Local TV stations reported that two members of the military were killed in the airstrike, including a brigadier-general.
The Israeli military says it struck a vehicle in southern Lebanon after identifying what it called a “threat to its forces” and that the incident is under review.
The latest declared ceasefire came about through U.S.-brokered talks between Israel and Lebanon’s government, which accuses Hezbollah of dragging the country into war and had made efforts to disarm it before the latest hostilities. The Lebanese militant group has refused the truce.
WATCH | Israel, Hezbollah trade strikes after militants reject new Lebanon ceasefire:
Israel and Hezbollah traded fresh strikes after the militant group rejected a new ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon brokered in Washington. Hezbollah demands a complete Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, which Israel rejects despite U.S. pressure to wrap up the war.
The war began on March 2 when Hezbollah fired rockets at northern Israel, two days after Israel and the U.S. began their attacks on Iran. Israel has since launched a ground invasion of Lebanon and carried out wide attacks that have displaced more than one million people. Israeli attacks have since killed and wounded dozens of Lebanese soldiers.
Israeli troops have seized about a fifth of Lebanon, pushing further into the country’s south than at any time since the end of Israel’s 1982-2000 occupation.
More than 3,500 people have been killed in Lebanon since the war began. The fighting has killed at least 29 Israeli soldiers and three civilians.
