“An enemy drone targeted a little while ago a car… between the towns of Jiyeh and Barja,” the National News Agency reported, referring to an area some 30 km south of the capital.

An AFP photographer saw a burnt-out car near a mosque, while soldiers deployed to the scene.

Israel has continued to carry out regular air strikes in Lebanon despite a November truce that sought to end more than a year of hostilities, including two months of open war with the Iran-backed Hezbollah group.

Yesterday, the Israeli military said it had hit several “targets belonging to the Hezbollah terrorist organisation” in the eastern Bekaa Valley, including what it described as training compounds used by the group’s elite Radwan force.

Lebanon’s health ministry said those strikes killed five people.

In August, the Lebanese government ordered the military to draw up plans to disarm the once-dominant Hezbollah by the end of the year, under heavy US pressure and fears of expanded Israeli strikes.

Under the November truce, Hezbollah was to withdraw its fighters north of the Litani River, around 30km north of the Israeli border.

Israel was to withdraw its troops from Lebanon but has kept them at five points it deems strategic.