1 killed and 11 wounded in intense Israeli strikes on south Lebanon

NABATIEH Lebanon AP Israel s air force carried out intense airstrikes on mountains overlooking a southern Lebanon city Friday in an attack that the Israeli military announced targeted underground assets of militant Hezbollah group Shortly afterward another strike hit an apartment building in the nearby city of Nabatieh killing one woman wounding and knocking out the building s top floor according to Lebanon s state news agency It was not promptly clear if that strike targeted anyone in the building Since the -month Israel-Hezbollah war ended with a U S -brokered ceasefire in November Israel has carried out almost daily airstrikes on southern Lebanon Friday s strikes were more intense than usual We are steadfast no matter how much you bomb us with your fighter jets and drones Hassan Ghandour a Shiite cleric from Nabatieh reported The Associated Press at the scene of the strike outside the building Lebanon s president and prime minister condemned the Israeli strikes on south Lebanon saying they violated the ceasefire deal The airstrikes on the mountains overlooking Nabatieh came in two waves and bunker buster bombs were used Lebanon s state-run National News Agency revealed NNA revealed four people were lightly wounded in the airstrikes outside the city The Israeli military revealed in a report that its fighter jets struck a site used by Hezbollah to manage its fire and defense array in the area and is part of a important underground project that was fully taken out of use The Israeli army declared it identified rehabilitation attempts by Hezbollah beforehand and struck infrastructure sites in the area There was no comment from Hezbollah Hezbollah suffered crucial losses on the battlefield during the war which left over people dead in Lebanon and caused destruction amounting to billion In Israel people died including soldiers As part of the ceasefire deal Hezbollah was pushed away from areas bordering Israel in south Lebanon and is not allowed to have an armed presence south of the Litani River Friday s airstrikes were north of the river Associated Press writer Bassem Mroue contributed to this review from Beirut Source