Eleven Killed in Heinous Israeli Strikes on Lebanon
The ministry confirmed a series of deadly strikes across multiple districts. In the coastal city of Tyre, an Israeli strike on a motorcycle claimed the life of a Palestinian man. In the town of Ansariyeh in the Sidon district, a separate strike killed five people, including two children, and left five others wounded. Further inland, four people — two of them women — were killed in an airstrike on the town of Jbaa in the Nabatieh district.
The National News Agency reported an additional fatality in the early morning hours, when a strike hit a residential home in Hebbariyeh in the Hasbaya district, killing a Lebanese man inside. Israeli warplanes also struck the Jabal al-Rafii area in the Iqlim al-Tuffah highlands and hit a home overnight in the Salam neighborhood of Nabatieh.
In the Bint Jbeil district, a strike landed between the towns of Kafra and Haris, as the area descended into heavy fighting. The National News Agency reported fierce clashes between Hezbollah fighters and Israeli ground forces, with Israeli warplanes and helicopters providing aerial cover. Intermittent combat also erupted at the entrances to the city, while Israeli forces demolished homes near the main market.
Mohammad Hammoud, director of Tebnine Hospital in the Bint Jbeil district, said an Israeli strike hit the area around the hospital, causing severe damage. A follow-up strike on a nearby commercial building triggered a fire that civil defense teams rushed to contain, he added.
The Israeli army simultaneously issued fresh evacuation warnings, ordering residents south of the Zahrani River to abandon their homes and move northward in anticipation of further strikes.
Israeli aircraft also conducted early morning strikes on the towns of Sarafand and Tebnine, and struck an office belonging to a Palestinian organization inside the Burj al-Shamali camp, the agency reported.
Overnight, the Marjayoun district was hit by strikes on the towns of Khiam and Debbineh, accompanied by artillery shelling. In the western Bekaa Valley, two dawn airstrikes on the town of Sahmar caused heavy structural damage to residential buildings. Additional strikes hit Wadi Shbeil in the Qatrani area of Jezzine, following raids that had already severed electricity to the towns of Qatrani and Sreireh.
The relentless campaign has continued since a Hezbollah cross-border strike on March 2 reignited hostilities, effectively gutting a ceasefire agreement reached in November 2024. Lebanese health authorities now report more than 2,160 killed, over 7,000 wounded, and well over one million people displaced since the violence escalated in March.
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