Israeli Strikes in Southern Lebanese Village Kill Nine

Israeli air strikes on a village in southern Lebanon have killed at least nine people, the Lebanese health ministry has said.
Eight people, including a child and two women, were killed in one strike that destroyed a residential building in Kfar Roummane overnight, according to the ministry. A second strike on a vehicle killed a paramedic.
The Israeli military said it was looking into the reports.
On Sunday, Israeli strikes killed seven people across southern Lebanon, as the Israeli military retaliated for what it said were drone attacks by the Shia Muslim armed group Hezbollah on troops in occupied areas of the country.
Lebanese President Joseph Aoun said the “dangerous escalation” was jeopardising June’s US-brokered ceasefire, which was meant to end the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.
He urged the international community to put pressure on Israel to stop the attacks.
The Israeli military has intensified its strikes in southern Lebanon in recent days.
They have happened in places near the strip of territory that is occupied by Israeli troops, and large numbers of residents have again been fleeing those areas.
The latest attacks targeted Kfar Roummane, in Nabatieh district, which is only a few hundred metres from what the Israeli military calls its “security zone”.
The first air strike destroyed a three-storey residential building near the town’s Shuyuiya roundabout shortly after midnight, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported.
The Lebanese health ministry said that in addition to the eight people killed, 11 were injured, including four children, two women, and a paramedic from the Islamic Health Association, which is an emergency service linked to Hezbollah.
The second strike hit a vehicle carrying paramedics from the Islamic Risala Scout Association, killing one of them and injuring two others, according to the ministry. The Risala Scouts is an emergency service affiliated with the Amal movement, a Shia group allied to Hezbollah.
An initial report from the NNA said 11 people were killed in the two strikes.
The health ministry said the death toll “serves as further irrefutable evidence of the grave violations of international humanitarian law committed by the Israeli occupation, targeting medics and children”.
A resident of Kfar Roummane, Sara Moallaem, 35, said that she had been asleep with her five children in their rental home when she heard the explosions.