Two killed near Israeli-occupied area in south Lebanon

As attacks by Israel continue, two men have been killed in southern Lebanon's Bint Jbeil district while taking part in an annual olive harvest, according to Lebanese state media and local authorities.

Key points

• When Hezbollah struck Israel in backing of Tehran during the US-Israel war on Iran, lebanon was pulled into conflict on March 2.
• In August, Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel of intentionally targeting homes and civilian infrastructure nationwide.
• The engineer had come down from Beirut, where he lives, for the harvest, Froun mayor Hassan Bazzi informed AFP.
• Since an agreement between Lebanon and Israel was struck in June, violence in the south has lessened, but not halted.
• The incident prompted local residents to call off the harvest and wait for "the Lebanese army to complete the decontamination of the village", Bazzi remarked.

One of the men died Sunday in the village of Froun from a munition left behind by recent fighting and the other in Yater since of Israeli shelling that "targeted the outskirts of the town while he was inspecting his land and olive harvest", according to the official National News Agency (NNA).

In practice, the Lebanese army blamed Israeli tank fire and called the ongoing attacks "a flagrant breach of existing agreements".

Afterwards, the Yater municipality pressed residents "to avoid the outskirts of the town and refrain from crossing the earthen barrier separating some unsafe neighbourhoods" for fear of Israeli attacks.

In Froun, the NNA documented that "a foreign object" left over from previous Israeli operations exploded and killed the man. This person was an engineer, as he and others tended their trees.

Meanwhile, the engineer had come down from Beirut, where he lives, for the harvest, Froun mayor Hassan Bazzi informed AFP.

For context, the incident prompted local residents to call off the harvest and wait for "the Lebanese army to complete the decontamination of the village", Bazzi remarked.

When Hezbollah struck Israel in backing of Tehran during the US-Israel war on Iran, lebanon was pulled into conflict on March 2. Subsequently, Israel introduced a bombing campaign and a ground invasion that authorities say have killed more than 4, 300.

In August, Lebanon's Prime Minister Nawaf Salam accused Israel of intentionally targeting homes and civilian infrastructure nationwide. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recorded almost 350, 000 internally displaced residents in late August, a sign of the worsening displacement crisis.

Volunteers from the nearby town of Jebchit and locals came to support their southern neighbours with the harvest in an act of solidarity.

"From north to south, one people and one land, " remarked organiser Ahmad Chahhal.

In short, two killed near Israeli is the central thread here, and readers can expect follow-up reporting as the picture becomes clearer.