According to the Israeli military on Friday, it had killed Hassan Farhat, a commander of Palestinian militant group Hamas, in the Sidon region of southern Lebanon.
The Lebanese Health Ministry said three people were killed in an Israeli strike on an apartment in Sidon. According to Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam’s office, the attack was a clear violation of a U.S.-backed ceasefire which ended last year’s war between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.
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In recent weeks, the ceasefire has become increasingly tenuous, with Israel hitting the Hezbollah-controlled southern suburbs of Beirut twice and Lebanon firing rockets at Israel twice.
Hezbollah has denied any role in the rocket fire.
