Overview

• The strike hit a motorcycle and a car in Bint Jbeil, killing five and wounding two, with Lebanon’s Health Ministry confirming three of the dead were children.
• Lebanese officials said the father and three children held U.S. citizenship and that the mother was critically injured, while a U.S. State Department spokesperson said early indications suggest the victims were not U.S. citizens.
• The Israeli military said it killed a Hezbollah member who operated from within a civilian area, acknowledged civilian deaths, and said the incident is under review.
• Lebanon’s president and prime minister condemned the attack as a crime against civilians and cited thousands of alleged Israeli violations since a November truce, noting Israeli forces remain on five southern hilltops.
• The killings add pressure on a fragile ceasefire monitoring effort and complicate Beirut’s U.S.-backed plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the group rejects while Israeli strikes continue.