Five people have been killed in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, according to the country’s health ministry.
Three children were among them, the ministry said, while Lebanon’s state news agency said the strike hit a motorbike and a vehicle, wounding two others.
Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri said a father and his three children were among the dead, with the mother wounded in the town of Bint Jbeil.
He added they held US citizenship.
However, a US State Department spokesperson said: “While the situation is fluid, so far, indications are that the five killed were not US citizens.
“In fact, one had an unused immigrant visa petition in the past.”
Israel said it killed a Hezbollah member in the strike but “several uninvolved civilians were killed”.
“The IDF regrets any harm to uninvolved individuals and operates to minimise harm as much as possible,” it said, adding the incident is “under review”.
Israel has frequently targeted what it calls Hezbollah positions in southern Lebanon.
That’s despite a US-brokered truce between Lebanon and Israel, which took effect last November after more than a year of conflict sparked by war in Gaza.
Lebanon is under pressure from the US, Saudi Arabia and Hezbollah’s domestic rivals to disarm the Iranian-backed militant group.
Hezbollah has said it would be a serious misstep even to discuss disarmament.