New Delhi, June 26 -- BEIRUT - Two men are dead, killed in their car by an Israeli drone on a road near Nabatieh on Thursday, the third consecutive day that a drone strike has taken lives in southern Lebanon.

The attack hit a vehicle on the Tallat al-Dabsha road near Kfar Reman in the Nabatieh district, according to Lebanon's National News Agency. A day earlier, a drone struck a car on the road linking the towns of Zawtar and Mayfadoun in the same governorate, killing three people, Anadolu Agency reported. The pattern has become a daily register of the same places, the same weapons, and the same outcome.

On the same Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu made public what his government had been signaling for weeks. The Israeli prime minister told...