Beirut:
A local official in southern Lebanon said an Israeli attack on a village on Sunday killed a couple and their child, the latest fatal incident in the border area.
Israel and Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah group have regularly exchanged cross-border fire since the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas' unprecedented October attack on southern Israel sparked the war in Gaza.
Fighting has intensified in recent weeks, with Israel pushing deeper into Lebanese territory, while Hezbollah has stepped up its rocket and drone attacks on military positions in northern Israel.
“The father, the mother and their son were tortured,” said Abdelmoneim Chukair, head of the community of Mays al-Jabal.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency said the attack killed “three civilians” and injured several others.
Hezbollah had said on Saturday evening that it had fired on military positions in northern Israel.
The Lebanese movement has repeatedly stated that only a ceasefire in Gaza can end its attacks on Israel.
The latest violence occurred when a Hamas delegation met with mediators in Egypt for talks on a possible ceasefire in the Gaza war.
Both the United States and France have made diplomatic efforts to calm tensions at the Lebanese-Israeli border.
At least 389 people, mostly police but also more than 70 civilians, have been killed in Lebanon in nearly seven months of cross-border violence, according to an AFP tally.
The death toll includes at least eleven Hamas fighters.
Israel says 11 soldiers and nine civilians have been killed on its side of the border.
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced on both sides.
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