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Despite a declared ceasefire, Israeli strikes killed at least ten people throughout southern Lebanon on Tuesday and into early Wednesday morning, according to Lebanese authorities and state media.
Lebanese Civil Defense said that two civilians were killed in an initial strike on a building in Majdal Zoun, a town near Tyre.
Another strike at the same location afterward killed three Civil Defense personnel, who were “assisting people wounded” from the earlier strike, the organization added.
Two Lebanese Army soldiers were wounded in the second strike, both Civil Defense and the Army said.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s office condemned the strikes in a statement on X, adding that Aoun considered the attacks part of “a series … that targeted relief and first aid workers.”
Separately, Lebanese state media reported that Israeli strikes killed two in the southern Lebanese towns of Tebnine and Shaqra, and the Ministry of Health reported that a strike in the town of Jwaya killed one.
The Ministry of Health later said that an airstrike on the town of Jebchit had killed at least two and wounded 13.
Lebanese Minister of Health Dr. Rakan Nasser Al-Din denounced the Majdal Zoun strikes in a statement released by the ministry late Tuesday night, calling it a violation of international law.
CNN has reached out to the Israeli military for comment on each incident. Yesterday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Israeli military personnel that the terms of the ceasefire with Lebanon allow Israel to continue bombing throughout the country.
“Our freedom of action to thwart threats – immediate threats and emerging threats – is part of the agreement we made with the United States and also with the Lebanese government,” Netanyahu said.
At least 2,521 people have been killed in Lebanon since March 2, and over 7,800 have been injured, according to a total released by the Ministry of Health on Monday.
This report has been updated with additional details.
