ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Lebanese leaders have condemned Israel’s Tuesday strike on a southern suburb of Beirut, slamming it as a breach of a tenuous ceasefire that sought to end over a year of conflict between Hezbollah and Tel Aviv and calling on the international community to step up efforts to protect Lebanon’s territorial sovereignty.

At least three people were killed and seven others wounded in an Israeli airstrike on the Dahiyeh suburb in the early hours of Tuesday, an attack the Israeli military described as targeting a Hezbollah militant who had “recently directed Hamas operatives and assisted them.”

The Tuesday strike was the second of its kind by Israel in Beirut in less than a week, with the previous bombing on Friday being the first Israeli attack on Lebanon’s capital since the fragile ceasefire reached between Hezbollah and Israel in November.  

"Israel's persistence in its aggression requires more effort from us in addressing Lebanon's friends around the world and rallying them in support of our right to full sovereignty over our land,” Joseph Aoun, Lebanon’s president, said in a statement.

For his part, Lebanese Prime Minister Nawaf Salam condemned the strike as a "clear breach” of the ceasefire.

Nawaf also said the strike was a "flagrant violation of United Nations Resolution 1701," a Security Council decision that ended a 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah and served as the foundation of the November ceasefire.

After nearly a year of intermittent cross-border exchanges between Hezbollah and Israel, and following a little over two months of intensified conflict between the two, a ceasefire deal brokered by the United States and France brought the conflict to a halt in late November.

However, the ceasefire has seen numerous violations, with sporadic gunfights and airstrikes occurring in the country’s south.

More than 3,000 people were killed in over a year of fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces.