Cross-border Israeli strikes in Lebanon kill eight despite ceasefire

An Israeli strike campaign in Lebanon over the past week has killed at least eight people in separate incidents, including a drone attack that killed a father and three children in the south and an airstrike that struck a village in the Bekaa Valley, Lebanese officials said. The incidents highlight continuing cross-border violence despite a U.S.-brokered ceasefire that took effect on November 27, 2024.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry reported that five people, including three children, were killed on Sunday in the southern town of Bint Jbeil when a drone fired on a motorcycle and a nearby vehicle. Lebanon’s state news agency and senior officials said the father and three children held U.S. citizenship; the mother was critically wounded. Israel’s military said the strike targeted a Hezbollah operative and acknowledged that uninvolved civilians were also killed, adding that the incident was under review.

Separately, an airstrike on Tuesday struck the Al-Asira neighborhood of Baalbek in eastern Lebanon, killing at least three people, local reports said. Those reports identified two of the dead as senior Hezbollah figures, including an operative described as a member of the group’s elite...