Israeli strikes on southern Lebanon on Saturday killed three people, including two brothers in a car on the slopes of Mount Hermon. The IDF said they were “terrorists” smuggling weapons. The EU called on all parties to respect a ceasefire reached in November 2024.<\/p>\n
Israeli strikes in Lebanon<\/a> killed three people and wounded several more on Saturday, according to the Lebanese health ministry, with Israel<\/a> announcing one of the attacks had hit arms smugglers from a group affiliated with Hezbollah<\/a>.<\/p>\n Lebanon’s official National News Agency reported that two brothers from the town of Shebaa were hit while driving on a road on the slopes of Mount Hermon in southeastern Lebanon, “causing their SUV to catch fire and resulting in their deaths”.<\/p>\n The Israeli military confirmed that they had conducted a strike near Shebaa that killed two smugglers from the Lebanese Resistance Brigades, a group allied with Hezbollah.<\/p>\n “The terrorists were involved in smuggling weapons used by Hezbollah and their activities constituted a blatant violation of the understandings between Israel and Lebanon,” the Israeli military said, referring to the ceasefire that sought to end more than a year of hostilities with the Iran-backed militant group.<\/p>\n “The IDF (military) will continue to operate in order to remove any threat posed to the State of Israel,” it warned.<\/p>\n Lebanon’s health ministry confirmed the death toll in Shebaa, later reporting that another strike on a car in the southern village of Baraashit had killed one person and wounded four.<\/p>\n A similar Israeli strike on Saturday morning on a car near a hospital in the southern city of Bint Jbeil wounded seven people, according to the ministry.<\/p>\n The latest attacks came as the European Union<\/a> added its voice to international concern over Israel’s continued strikes despite the nearly year-old truce.<\/p>\n