Two people killed in Israeli strike on bus east of Lebanon

Two people were killed on Thursday by a drone strike carried out by Israel on a small bus in the Al-Hermel district east of Lebanon, in a new violation of the ceasefire.

A drone strike by Israel targeted a bus on the road to Hosh al-Sayyid Ali in the Al-Hermel district.

The strike "resulted in the fall of two martyrs who were transferred to the Petroleum Hospital in the city of Al-Hermel".

Earlier on Thursday, witnesses reported that a strike carried out by a drone targeted a car in the town of Hosh al-Sayyid Ali in northeastern Lebanon.

In this context, Israeli army spokesperson Avichai Adraei stated in a post on the American company "X" platform that the Israeli army and Shin Bet carried out an attack in the Al-Nasseriyah area.

Adraei claimed that the attack targeted a "terrorist element".

In the middle of the night last Wednesday, an Israeli drone targeted a car in the town of Janata in the Tyre district south of Lebanon.

The municipality stated that the strike caused injury to a person who happened to be passing by the place, and he was transferred to the hospital.

Despite the ceasefire between the two sides coming into effect at the end of last year, Israel carries out daily attacks on Lebanon, especially in the south of the country.

Israel has killed more than 4,000 people and injured nearly 17,000 others during its aggression on Lebanon, which it began in October 2023, before turning it into a full-scale war in September 2024, which stopped with an agreement for a ceasefire that came into effect in November 2024.

It has also violated the ceasefire agreement more than 10,000 times, according to the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), resulting in hundreds of deaths and injuries, in addition to its occupation of 5 Lebanese hills that it controlled in the recent war, plus other areas it has occupied for decades.