Israeli air and drone strikes kill at least five in southern Lebanon

Israeli air and drone strikes across southern Lebanon over the past week killed at least five civilians and wounded several others, Lebanese authorities said, in the latest violations of a November ceasefire that ended more than a year of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah. The incidents included a drone strike on Monday in the Nabatiyeh district that killed a husband and wife, health officials said, and separate strikes on Tuesday and early Saturday that Lebanese authorities said killed three more people in Tyre, Bint Jbeil and Msayleh.

Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency identified the Monday victims as Hassan Atwi and his wife, Zainab Raslan. The health ministry said an Israeli drone struck a car on the Zebdine road in Nabatiyeh, killing two people and wounding one. Other local reports said as many as four people were wounded in that attack. Atwi had been blinded in a previous Israeli operation last year that destroyed pagers and walkie-talkies used by Hezbollah members, the agency reported. Video circulating online and accounts from witnesses said a drone hovered over the vehicle before firing as Raslan returned to the car; those accounts were described by local...