Israeli strikes kill 9 in south Lebanon, including 3 army officers, days after Washington ceasefire; Aoun calls it ‘flagrant violation of sovereignty’
Two Lebanese army officers and a soldier were killed in an Israeli strike on a military vehicle in southern Lebanon on Saturday, the Lebanese army said, in an attack that killed nine people in total across multiple Israeli airstrikes and drew sharp condemnation from Lebanese President Joseph Aoun, who called it “a flagrant violation of Lebanon’s sovereignty and international law.” The strikes came just days after Israel and Lebanon reached a fresh US-brokered ceasefire deal in Washington — an agreement that Hezbollah has refused to accept. The Israeli military said it had targeted the vehicle after identifying what it described as a threat to its forces and receiving “concrete indications” that Hezbollah was preparing to fire on Israeli troops from the area. “An initial inquiry indicated that two officers and a soldier in the Lebanese army were inside the vehicle when it was struck,” the Israeli military said, adding that the incident is being reviewed. Lebanese Red Cross personnel and rescue workers stand next to a destroyed vehicle after an Israeli airstrike on the road …
