At least three more people have been killed in Israeli attacks in eastern and southern Lebanon despite a temporary ceasefire.
An Israeli drone hit the outskirts of al-Jbour in the Bekaa Valley in eastern Lebanon, killing one person and injuring two others, the state-run National News Agency reported on Wednesday.
The outlet said two more people were killed in another airstrike targeting a car in Tayri of southern Lebanon.
The Israeli attacks occurred despite a 10-day ceasefire between Lebanon and Israel which commenced on Friday.
Just a day after the ceasefire took effect, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said that Israel intends to maintain control over all areas it occupied in southern Lebanon.
Since March 2, Israeli attacks on Lebanon have killed 2,294 people, wounded 7,544, and displaced more than 1 million, according to official figures.
Over 62,000 housing units destroyed
Israeli attacks on Lebanon during its latest war damaged or destroyed more than 62,000 housing units in the country, a government estimate found on Wednesday.
"Within about 45 days (of the war), we had 21,700 destroyed housing units and 40,500 damaged housing units," Chadi Abdallah, head of the National Council for Scientific Research (CNRS), said in a press conference.
Despite an ongoing 10-day truce that started on Friday, Israeli forces have continued to demolish and blow up homes in southern Lebanese towns they currently occupy, according to Lebanese authorities, eyewitnesses, and photographs.
The CNRS estimates that "428 housing units were destroyed and 50 were damaged" during the first three days of the ceasefire, Abdallah said.
Lebanon is set to ask for an extension of the truce during its next talks with Israel on Thursday, a Lebanese official said.
Strikes target residential areas, infrastructure, places of worship
Hezbollah and Israel had previously clashed for more than a year in 2023, escalating into two months of full-blown war in late 2024 until a November ceasefire sought to end the hostilities.
Israel continued to strike Lebanon despite the previous truce, and kept troops positions at five border points.
"The aggression that extended between 2023 and 2025, which is in fact an aggression that did not stop, left behind enormous destruction at various levels," Lebanese Environment Minister Tamara Zein said at the press conference.
She added that "more than 220,000 housing units were damaged and destroyed" during that period.
Zein added that Israel's strikes did not spare residential neighbourhoods, civilian infrastructure, and places of worship, and resulted in damage to large agricultural and forested areas.
