Israel strikes buildings in Kfar Tibnit and Ain Qana after evacuation warnings
Israeli airstrikes targeted two buildings Monday in the southern towns of Kfar Tibnit and Ain Qana after the Israeli army issued evacuation warnings.
The Israeli military's Arabic-language spokesman Avichay Adraee said the buildings contained "military infrastructure belonging to Hezbollah."
In an X post, he told residents of certain buildings in Kfar Tibnit and Ain Qana "to evacuate them immediately."
Lebanon said one person was killed and several others wounded in Israeli strikes in the country's south on Sunday, while Israel said it hit Hezbollah targets.
In a statement on Monday, the Israeli military said it had killed Ali al-Hadi Mustafa al-Haqqani, a senior Hezbollah air defense officer, in a strike on southern Lebanon a day earlier.
In a strike on southern Lebanon on Monday, the military said it killed an operative who "was involved in attempts to rehabilitate Hezbollah military infrastructure."
It said the operatives' activities "constitute a violation of the ceasefire understandings between Israel and Lebanon." Lebanon has repeatedly protested Israeli strikes on Lebanon as violations of the ceasefire.
In January, Lebanon's army said it had completed the first phase of its plan to disarm Hezbollah, covering the area south of the Litani river, around 30 kilometers (20 miles) from the Israeli border.
Israel, which accuses Hezbollah of rearming, has criticized the army's progress as insufficient, while Hezbollah has rejected calls to surrender its weapons.
More than 360 people have been killed by Israeli fire in Lebanon since the ceasefire, according to an AFP tally of health ministry reports.
Source: Agence France Presse
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