The individuals attacked by Israel in the town of Nabatieh were described as an “armed terror cell” that posed an urgent threat to Israeli soldiers, according to a statement from the Israeli military. They were, according to Israel, in the “security zone” held by the invading ground forces in the neighboring country.
The Israeli military attached a very low-resolution image to the statement that it says shows a "terrorist"; this cannot be verified at this stage.
“Dug up the dead”
From the Lebanese side, it is described as Israeli forces firing at a group of civilians who were clearing a road and digging up victims from the rubble after an Israeli airstrike that took place last week.
The Israelis “opened fire with automatic weapons in their direction while they were standing near an excavator that was unblocking the road,” Lebanon’s state news agency NNA writes. In addition, several people are said to have been injured.
The Shia movement Hezbollah - Israel's primary opponent in the war - gives a similar sequence of events and says it is a "clear violation of the ceasefire."
Lebanese authorities and media report that two people have been killed by Israeli fire, the first fatalities reported from the war in Lebanon in three days.
Witness: At funeral
A local authority leader in the community of Hadatha told the newspaper L'Orient Le Jour about a separate incident in which Israeli forces reportedly opened fire on a civilian funeral ceremony. The event had been coordinated with the Red Cross and the Lebanese military's ceasefire monitoring unit, he said.
There are no records of deaths there.
