A brief statement by the Israeli army said a civilian employee of an engineering company, who was working with the military on projects in southern Lebanon, died in a drone attack.

Despite a ceasefire in Lebanon, Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants have been intermittently attacking each other in the south, where Israeli soldiers are occupying a slice of territory along the border.

With President Joseph Aoun pushing for direct talks with Israel while Hezbollah rejects them, the country is once again at an impasse after a verbal spat between its leader and the Iran-backed movement.

Lebanon has officially been at war with Israel since 1948, making direct negotiations taboo until recently when two wars between Israel and Iran-backed Hezbollah exhausted the country.

The Lebanese health ministry said Israeli strikes on Tuesday killed eight people, including civil defense rescuers, and wounded two soldiers in the country's south, despite an ongoing ceasefire.

The Israeli military, meanwhile, announced it had found and destroyed a large Hezbollah tunnel network used by elite fighters in southern Lebanon.

The human rights organization made the statement Tuesday after a video circulated on social media showing Israeli military excavators destroying solar panels for the Lebanese border village of Debel and its water station.

The Lebanese Army said on Tuesday that two soldiers were wounded in an Israeli strike while they were engaged in a rescue operation in southern Lebanon, despite an ongoing ceasefire.

The statement was the first time the Lebanese Army has said its troops have been targeted since the truce began.

The Israeli military said on Tuesday it found and destroyed a large Hezbollah tunnel network used by elite fighters in south Lebanon, near Israel's northern border.

Israel has been fighting Hezbollah since early March, sending troops into south Lebanon to battle the Iran-backed group after it launched rockets at Israeli territory, with the violence ongoing despite a shaky April 17 ceasefire.

The Israeli military currently lacks an effective defense against Hezbollah’s explosive drones guided by fiber-optic cables, according to a report by The Times of Israel.

On Sunday, a small First-Person View (FPV) drone targeted Israeli soldiers in the southern border town of Taybeh, killing one soldier and wounding six others, four of them seriously. As a medical helicopter arrived to evacuate the casualties, two additional drones struck the site.

Israel's top diplomat on Tuesday said Israel was not seeking to take territory in Lebanon, as its military presses operations in the south despite a ceasefire.

"Israel has no territorial ambitions in Lebanon. Our presence in the areas by our northern border serves one purpose: protecting our citizens," Foreign Minister Gideon Saar said at a joint news conference with his Serbian counterpart Marko Djuric.

Hezbollah's military operations in south Lebanon have declined due to the Lebanese Army measures and the group's loss of freedom of maneuver, a Lebanese military source told Al-Arabiya's Al-Hadath channel.

Israel's army released a video Tuesday of troops detonating the stadium of Bint Jbeil — a symbolic site where Hezbollah’s former leader, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, delivered his 2000 Liberation speech following Israel's withdrawal from southern Lebanon after 22 years of occupation.

Israeli forces have been burning and destroying houses and buildings in southern border towns including Bint Jbeil, Khiam, Houla, Mays al-Jabal, and Shamaa.