Two people were killed today in attacks by Israeli drones on vehicles in southern Lebanon, state media reported, at a time of increased violence between the Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel.
Since the start of the war in the Gaza Strip between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist Hamas on October 7, pro-Iranian Hezbollah has exchanged fire with the Israeli military almost daily in support of its Palestinian ally.
"An enemy drone targeted cars with four missiles, killing one person near the village of Zrarije," the official National News Agency (NNA) reported, but did not say whether a civilian or a gunman was killed.
It was also reported that another person was killed and another injured in a similar attack on a motorbike in Nakura town.
Hezbollah then announced that it had carried out an attack "from the air with several explosive drones" on an Israeli border military target in retaliation.
Israel regularly carries out targeted attacks against fighters of the Shiite Hezbollah and allied Lebanese and Palestinian organizations, in cars and on motorbikes.
Over the past three days, Israel has stepped up attacks on villages in southern Lebanon, where at least four civilians and two Hezbollah fighters have been killed since Friday.
Hezbollah fired rockets and missiles at two Israeli border settlements and also announced that it had twice attacked the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday after Israeli attacks in eastern Lebanon.
The new violence broke out during the visit of the new Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs of Iran, Ali Bagheri, who arrived in Beirut this morning.
He was appointed after the death of Foreign Minister Hussein Amir Abdollahian in a helicopter crash that also killed President Ebrahim Raisi.
Iran supports several armed organizations in the region, including Hezbollah and Hamas.
In almost eight months of border violence, at least 453 people were killed in Lebanon, mostly armed and more than 80 civilians, according to France Press.
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