Israeli strikes kill four in Lebanon after alleged Hezbollah drone launch

Lebanon said Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killed four people on Sunday in the latest escalation despite a months-long ceasefire. Israel alleged that the strikes were in response to Hezbollah launching drones against its troops in the country's Israeli-occupied south. Lebanon's health ministry reported two people killed in south Lebanon's Nabatieh al-Fawqa and two women killed in nearby Arab Salim. It said 20 other people, including several women and three children, were wounded in those locations as well as in the city of Nabatieh and the town of Kfar Rumman, adding that the toll was provisional. Watch moreUNIFIL peacekeepers patrol south Lebanon, caught between Israel and Hezbollah Israel's army said it was striking south Lebanon after Hezbollah fighters launched two drones towards Israeli soldiers operating in Israel's self-declared "security zone" in the south. It did not report any troop casualties. Shortly before the statement, Israel's military had issued its first "evacuation" notice in Lebanon in several weeks, warning residents near a building it identified as a Hezbollah "facility" in Arab Salim to leave their homes of an attack on the site. It did not issue wa...