Lebanon’s Health Ministry announced on Thursday that Israeli airstrikes in the country’s south killed one person and injured seven others, as tensions persist despite a ceasefire agreement reached last year.

According to the ministry, one civilian was killed in a strike on the eastern town of Shmistar, while one person was wounded in Bnaafoul, in the Saida district, and six others in the town of Ansar, located in the Nabatieh district.

The Israeli military confirmed that it had carried out strikes in southern Lebanon, claiming to have targeted “Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure in the Mazraat Sinai area.” The army further stated that its operations had also hit facilities allegedly used by the environmental NGO Green Without Borders, which is under U.S. sanctions and accused by Israel of “operating under a civilian cover to conceal Hezbollah’s presence along the border.”

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the attacks, saying they deliberately targeted “civilian facilities” in violation of the November ceasefire that had ended more than a year of intermittent hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

“The repeated Israeli aggression comes as part of a systematic policy aimed at destroying productive infrastructure, hindering economic recovery, and undermining national stability under false security pretexts,” Aoun said in a statement issued by the presidential office.

Despite the ceasefire, Israeli warplanes have repeatedly bombed areas across southern and eastern Lebanon over recent months, citing threats from Hezbollah and its allied factions. The ongoing airstrikes have reignited fears of a wider escalation along the Lebanese-Israeli border, where both sides maintain a heavily militarized presence.

Lebanese officials and humanitarian organizations have warned that the renewed Israeli attacks are impeding post-war reconstruction efforts and worsening the country’s already fragile economic situation. (ILKHA)