Shawad Rizqallah

The toddler and his father were fatally wounded when an Israeli drone struck an adjacent vehicle, killing its driver, Lebanese state media said.

Israel said the strike killed the Hezbollah operative it accused of trying to rebuild the militant group's artillery capabilities.

adding it, quote, regrets any harm to uninvolved civilians.

Later in the day, the Israeli military shot and killed a Lebanese man in his border village, accusing him in a statement of being a Hezbollah operative, and, quote, gathering intelligence on their troops, without providing further evidence.

Despite the U.S.

brokered ceasefire in which Hezbollah has given up weapons near the border, Israel still launches almost daily attacks.

The U.N.

says nearly half of those killed are civilians.

Shawad Rizqallah, NPR News, Beirut.