THE Israeli military carried out air attacks in southern Lebanon today on what it claimed was Hezbollah infrastructure.

This came after a drone strike earlier in the day killed one person and wounded several others, including students on a bus.

The new wave of attacks was carried out despite a so-called ceasefire that was agreed last November.

An air attack on Tuesday night killed 13 people in the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh.

The Israeli military warned this afternoon that it would strike targets in several villages in southern Lebanon, claiming them to be Hezbollah infrastructure, and called on people to move away from the locations.

More than an hour later, the strikes began in the villages of Shehour and Deir Kifa. There was no immediate word on casualties.

Earlier today, an Israeli air strike on a car in the southern Lebanese village of Tiri killed one person and wounded 11, including students aboard a nearby bus, the Lebanese Health Ministry and state media said.

Lebanon’s National News Agency said that the school bus happened to be passing near the car that was hit. The bus driver and several students were wounded, the report said.

The Israeli military later said it killed a Hezbollah operative in the drone strike.

The Israeli military said that it struck a Hamas training compound during its attack on the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, just outside the city of Sidon that was being used to prepare an attack against Israel and its army.

Ignoring the ceasefire agreed with the Palestinian resistance group in early October, the Israeli army said it would continue to act against Hamas wherever it operates.

Hamas condemned the attack and denied in a statement that the sports playground that was hit was its training compound.

Palestinian factions in Lebanon’s 12 refugee camps earlier this year began handing over their weapons to the Lebanese state.

The government has said that it will also work on disarming Hezbollah, but Hezbollah has rejected it, as long as Israel continues to occupy several hills along the border and carries out almost daily strikes.

The United States has increased pressure on Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah and cancelled a planned trip to Washington this week by Lebanese army commander General Rudolph Haikal.

A senior Lebanese military source said that US officials were angered by an army statement on Sunday that blamed Israel for destabilising Lebanon and blocking the Lebanese military deployment in south Lebanon.