The Israeli military has stated it carried out a drone strike on Hezbollah members who had been leaving a constructing in southern Lebanon. 

The IDF stated the strike on Saturday hit the operatives “to take away a menace,” stories say.

Lebanese media stated the assault was carried out within the village of Kounine. 

Lebanon’s well being ministry stated two folks had been wounded within the strike.

It comes after Lebanon’s parliament on Thursday voted  to elect military commander Joseph Aoun as head of state, filling a greater than two-year-long presidential vacuum.

The vote got here weeks after a ceasefire deal halted a 14-month battle between Israel and Hezbollah. 

In a speech to parliament, Aoun pledged to combat corruption and work to consolidate the state’s proper to “monopolise the carrying of weapons,” in an obvious allusion to the arms of Hezbollah.

He additionally promised to manage the nation’s borders and “make sure the activation of the safety companies and to debate a strategic protection coverage that may allow the Lebanese state to take away the Israeli occupation from all Lebanese territories” in southern Lebanon, the place the Israeli navy has not but withdrawn. 

Aoun additionally vowed to reconstruct “what the Israeli military destroyed within the south, east and [Beirut’s southern] suburbs.”

He was seen as the popular candidate of the US and Saudi Arabia, whose assist Lebanon will want because it seeks to rebuild.

On Friday, Lebanese caretaker Prime Minister Najib Mikati stated that the state will start disarming southern Lebanon, significantly the south Litani area. 

“We’re in a brand new part – on this new part, we’ll begin with south Lebanon and south Litani particularly as a way to pull weapons in order that the state will be current throughout Lebanese territory,” Mikati stated.

In November, Israel and Hezbollah agreed to a US-brokered 60-day ceasefire that requires a phased Israeli navy withdrawal, in accordance with a UN Safety Council decision that ended the their final main battle.