At least one Lebanese person, two Israeli soldiers killed in south Lebanon

Israeli strikes killed one person while two Israeli soldiers were killed in an explosion inside a booby-trapped building in southern Lebanon amid ongoing talks aimed at implementing a ceasefire.

Wednesday’s Israeli air strike on the southern Lebanese town of Tibnin hit the roof of a cemetery prayer hall, killing one person and injuring 12 others, according to Lebanon’s Health Ministry.

The latest strike came after two Israeli soldiers were killed, another critically wounded and several others injured when an improvised explosive device exploded inside a booby-trapped building in the southern Lebanese village of Majdal Selem.

According to Lebanon’s Health Ministry, since March 2, Israeli attacks have killed at least 4,333 people and wounded 12,250 others.

Reporting from Beirut, Al Jazeera’s Zeina Khodr said Majdal Selem remained under Israeli military occupation.

“The village lies close to al-Mansouri …There is no Hezbollah presence there, making this a notable incident,” Khodr said.

Following the explosion, the Israeli military announced on Telegram it had begun carrying out what it described as “precise strikes” across southern Lebanon, saying the attacks were launched in response to a “blatant violation of the ceasefire by the Hezbollah terrorist organisation”.

The Israeli army’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Ella Waweya, also issued renewed forced displacement orders for residents of al-Mansouri, urging them to head north before further strikes.