DUBAI: A minimum of 5 folks had been killed in Israeli airstrikes and drone assaults in southern Lebanon on Saturday (Jun 20), Lebanese state media reported, simply hours after a ceasefire between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group took impact.
State information company NNA mentioned Israeli warplanes and drones carried out a sequence of strikes throughout the Nabatieh space in a single day and into Saturday morning, destroying residential buildings and houses, whereas Israeli artillery shelled Nabatieh and its outskirts earlier than daybreak.
Israel and Hezbollah agreed to the ceasefire on Friday following an escalation in hostilities in Lebanon, in response to a United States official.
A senior Israeli official and two Hezbollah sources confirmed the settlement to Reuters. The US official mentioned the truce was to start at 4pm native time (1pm GMT) on Friday.
