Israeli army on Wednesday warned two villages in southern Lebanon to evacuate buildings under the false pretext of targeting “Hezbollah sites,” as it continues to launch deadly attacks on civilian areas, killing innocents and escalating tensions despite the ceasefire.

At least 14 people were killed in Lebanon in the past day by Israeli strikes.

Earlier Wednesday, an Israeli airstrike on a car in southern Lebanon killed one person and wounded 11, including students aboard a nearby bus, the Lebanese Health Ministry and state media said.

The strike in the village of Tiri followed an Israeli drone attack on the Palestinian refugee camp of Ein el-Hilweh in southern Lebanon that killed 13 people and wounded several others.

The Tuesday night strike was the deadliest among scores of Israeli attacks since a ceasefire in the Israeli war on Lebanon a year ago.

State-run National News Agency said a school bus with students happened to be passing near the car that was hit on Wednesday morning. The bus driver and several students were wounded, the report said.

The identity of the person who died in the car wasn't immediately clear. 

In the Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp, just outside the port city of Sidon, life appeared normal on Wednesday, but Lebanese authorities prevented journalists from entering.

At the scene of the strike, paramedics searched for human remains around a wall that was stained with blood. Several cars were burnt, and broken glass and debris littered the ground.

Israel claimed the site was a Hamas “training compound,” alleging without evidence that it was preparing attacks on Israeli forces. Hamas strongly denied the claim, emphasizing that the struck location was a civilian sports playground, not a military facility. Hamas condemned the attack and denied in a statement that the sports playground that was hit was its training compound.

The Lebanese government has said that it will work on disarming Hezbollah but the resistance group has rejected it as long as Israel continues to occupy several hills along the border and carries out almost daily strikes.

The US has recently increased pressure on Lebanon to work harder on disarming Hezbollah and canceled a planned trip to Washington this week by Lebanese army commander Gen. Rudolph Haikal.

A senior Lebanese army officer told The Associated Press that US officials were angered by an army statement on Sunday that blamed Israel for destabilizing Lebanon and blocking the Lebanese military deployment in south Lebanon. The officer spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to speak publicly.

The latest Israeli war began Oct. 8, 2023, a day after the Israeli war on Gaza, as Hezbollah fired rockets into Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians.

Israel launched a widespread bombardment of Lebanon two months ago that severely weakened Hezbollah, followed by a ground invasion of the country.

That Israeli war, the most recent of several conflicts over the past four decades, killed more than 4,000 people in Lebanon and caused an estimated $11 billion worth of destruction, according to the World Bank.