Beirut (Lebanon) (AFP) – An Israeli strike on south Beirut killed at least three people on Tuesday, Lebanon said after Israel announced its second strike on the country’s capital in a fragile four-month truce.

The attack that came without warning at around 3:30 am (0030 GMT) during the Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday. It came after Israel struck Beirut’s southern suburbs, a bastion of Hezbollah support, on Friday after issuing an evacuation warning.

Lebanon’s health ministry said the strike killed three people and wounded seven others.

An AFP photographer at the scene said the top two floors of a multi-storey building were destroyed and that debris covered the street. Panicked residents poured of their homes as rescue workers helped the wounded.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun condemned the strike and called on his country’s international allies to support “our right to full sovereignty”.

The Lebanese prime minister, Nawaf Salam, said the attack was a “clear breach” of a ceasefire deal that largely ended more than a year of hostilities between Israel and Hezbollah.

Without identifying the alleged Hezbollah operative, Israel’s military said it “acted to eliminate him and removed the threat”, just days after striking the southern suburbs in response to rocket fire from Lebanon which it blamed on the Lebanese militant group.