Israeli airstrike kills 4, wounds 3 in southern Lebanon in continued violation of ceasefire: Report
Iran Press TV
Sunday, 02 November 2025 12:00 AM
An Israeli airstrike has claimed the lives of four people and wounded three others in southern Lebanon amid Tel Aviv's ongoing deadly incursions into the country in violation of a 2024 ceasefire.
The casualties were caused on Saturday after an Israeli drone targeted a vehicle in the village of Kafr Rumman, the country's al-Mayadeen television network reported.
"Earlier in the day, another Israeli drone carried out an airstrike on the nearby town of Kafr Sir," the report added.
The strikes came three days after Israeli troops carried out a ground incursion into Lebanon's southern province of Nabatieh, where the Saturday attacks took place.
Reporting on the Thursday incident, local media outlets said an Israeli military convoy consisting of several jeeps infiltrated the border town of Blida in the province's Marjayoun district, and broke into the town's temporary municipal building.
The Blida municipality later announced that one of its employees, identified as Ibrahim Salameh, who had been spending the night inside the building, was killed by the forces during the incursion.
The deadly aggression comes amid the regime's continued back-to-back breaches of the ceasefire agreement that was reached on November 27, 2024.
The deal came about following numerous determined and successive operations launched by Lebanon's Hezbollah resistance movement against sensitive and strategic targets across the occupied Palestinian territories.
The operations were both meant to level support behind Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, who had come under a war of genocide by the regime, and retaliate against Israeli occupation and markedly intensified Israeli aggression that had followed the launch of the solidarity strikes.
Reacting to the regime's violations of the deal on Friday, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun denounced Tel Aviv for responding to Beirut's offer to negotiate by ramping up airstrikes.
Also on Saturday, The Cradle, a Lebanon-based online news magazine, cited a political source as saying that the Israeli military was expected to recommend that the regime's officials approve a fresh wholesale military operation against Lebanon.
The military, the source added, was seeking for the operation to weaken Hezbollah after it "returned and rebuilt itself" following the Israeli escalation.
The regime has, meanwhile, been trying to apply intensive pressure on Lebanon via its arch-ally, the United States, to disarm the movement.
Hezbollah, which also fought off two major Israeli wars in 2000 and 2006, has, however, roundly rejected the prospect.
Most recently, the movement's Secretary-General Sheikh Naim Qassem stressed that the resistance constituted the strength of Lebanon, noting that the US had always pressured the country to deprive it of its "strength, freedom and independence" to serve the interests of the regime.
He also warned that Washington was not a neutral mediator between Lebanon and the regime due to its silence on thousands of Israeli violations of the ceasefire.
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