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Published 29 Apr, 2026 03:43pm

Lebanon army says Israeli strike in south kills two including soldier

Lebanon’s army says that one of its soldiers was among two people killed in an Israeli strike in the country’s south, the latest deadly raid despite a ceasefire in the Israel-Hezbollah war, AFP reports.

“A soldier and his brother were killed in an Israeli strike that targeted them in the town of Khirbet Selm in Bint Jbeil (district) while they were travelling on a motorbike” heading home from the soldier’s post, the army statement says.

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