News - Middle East: Iran has strongly condemned Israeli air strikes on Lebanon that killed several civilians, calling the attacks “terrorist crimes” and urging international action against the occupation regime.

Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei denounced on Friday “the aggressive attacks by the Zionist regime” against southern and eastern Lebanon, which killed four people.

He condemned the Thursday aggression as a “terrorist crime” which hit a school in Bekaa and led to the injury of several students.

Extending condolences to the families of the victims and to the people of Lebanon, he stressed the need “to prosecute and punish the Zionist regime for its crimes.”

Baghaei said Israel’s “continued impunity” is rooted in “the all-out support of the United States,” adding that repeated Israeli assaults against Lebanon’s sovereignty and violations of the ceasefire agreement “clearly demonstrate the terrorist and expansionist nature of the Zionist regime.”

He urged the international community and the UN Security Council to act against the regime’s “lawlessness and crimes.”

The Israeli aggression on Thursday was the latest breach of the ceasefire signed last November. Two people died in attacks on mountainous areas in the east, while two others, including an elderly woman, were killed in Arabsalim in the south, the ministry said.

The National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli warplanes “launched a series of violent strikes on the eastern mountain range” near the Syrian border and targeted the Hermel region in the northeast. The Israeli military claimed the attacks hit sites linked to Hezbollah.

The strikes add to a series of Israeli violations across southern Lebanon, the Bekaa Valley, and Beirut’s southern suburbs that have killed more than 270 Lebanese civilians since the ceasefire took effect in November 2024.

Last month, several Israeli attacks on Lebanon killed at least nine people, and Israel was slammed for dropping grenades near UN peacekeepers with the UN Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL).

Source: Press TV