Hezbollah has condemned the Israeli attack on a Lebanese army vehicle that killed three soldiers, calling the strike “a deliberate crime”, Al Jazeera reports.

In a statement, the Lebanese group has deemed the strike “a deliberate and premeditated crime that adds to the series of crimes the enemy continues to commit against our Lebanese people, particularly in the south and the Western Beqaa”.

Hezbollah has also criticised the Lebanese state authorities, saying the attack was “a natural consequence of the authorities’ disregard for the country’s sovereignty and the blood of its people, as well as their gratuitous concessions”.

“The latest of these concessions was their complete surrender to the enemy’s conditions in Washington, encouraging it to violate the blood of our people and our army with impunity,” the group says. “We condemn this sinful aggression and reaffirm our steadfast support for our national army.”