TEHRAN - Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baqaei says Israeli strikes against Lebanon amount to a textbook example of war crimes, categorically condemning Israel’s stepped-up air raids on various parts of Lebanon, especially residential areas in the south of the country.

He said the Tel Aviv regime’s military aggression against Lebanon and targeting its public infrastructure and people’s homes are in blatant violation of the fundamental principles of the UN Charter and a clear example of war crimes, holding the guarantors of the ceasefire directly accountable for that.

He condoled with the families of the martyrs and expressed solidarity with the Lebanese government and people, calling for immediate and effective action by the international community to put an end to Tel Aviv’s immunity.

The spokesman referred to the Israeli regime’s ongoing violation of the truce over the past 15 months, saying the guarantors and political supporters of the ceasefire have legal responsibility vis-à-vis the repeated violations.

He also urged the UN, especially the UN Security Council, to discharge its responsibility to put an immediate end to the acts of aggression and hold the Tel Aviv regime to task for repeatedly breaching international law.

This comes as one person was killed in a fresh Israeli drone attack on southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced in a statement that a Lebanese citizen was killed in the town of Rab Thalathin in the Israeli drone attack.

The moves by Tel Aviv come within the framework of the regime's repeated violations of a ceasefire agreement that was established between Lebanon and the Zionist regime last year.

More than a year has passed since the agreement that was supposed to stop the Zionist regime's war against Lebanon.

Despite continuing its daily aggression against southern Lebanon, the Zionist regime, along with the United States, is seeking to advance the plan to disarm the Hezbollah resistance movement in Lebanon by pressuring Beirut.