A man was killed Friday in an Israeli strike in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese Health Ministry announced, with Israel claiming he was involved in weapons smuggling operations from Iran.
Despite the cease-fire that ended a war of more than a year with the Iranian-backed Lebanese Hezbollah movement in November, Israel continues to carry out regular strikes in Lebanon.
A drone strike carried out Friday by "the Israeli enemy" on a car near al-Numairiya, in the Nabatieh district, left one dead and five wounded, the ministry said.
The Israeli army, for its part, said it had killed a man named Mohammad Shoaib, whom it accuses of taking part in weapons smuggling into Lebanon and the occupied West Bank.
The cease-fire agreement, which entered into force on Nov. 27, calls for Hezbollah to withdraw its forces and dismantle any military infrastructure in the south of the country.
Only the Lebanese army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) are supposed to be deployed there.
The Israeli forces, who were required to withdraw from Lebanon under the agreement, have, however, maintained five border positions in the south of the country.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun ruled out any normalization of relations with Israel on Friday, stating that he favored a peaceful situation with the neighboring country.
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