BEIRUT: Lebanon said on Thursday that Israeli strikes killed six people in the country`s south, with Israel saying it struck Hezbollah operatives.

The strikes were the latest in a series of Israeli attacks on south Lebanon, despite a November ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah after more than a year of hostilities.

The Lebanese health ministry said `two people were killed in an enemy strike on the village of Baraashit` in Nabatieh district.

Earlier the ministry said an `Israelienemy strike on a car in Yohmor alShageef led to the death of three people,` in a statement reported by the National News Agency.

The news agency said a drone targeted a vehicle near the town, in a strike that came at the same time as artillery shelling.

The Israeli military said in a statement that `several Hezbollah terrorists were identified transferring weapons in the area of Yohmor in southern Lebanon`, adding that the army `struck the terrorists`.

NNA also reported that `one per-son was killed and another wounded in the Israeli drone targeting... of a car in the (southern) town Maaroub`. The Israeli military said that overnight, the air force `struck and eliminated... a battalion commander` in Hezbollah`s elite Radwan Force in the Derdghaiya area, near Maaroub.

It accused him of having `advanced and directed numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians` and troops during the war, and of also directing `terror attacks against Israel`s Home Front` in recent months.-AFP