At least 25 people, including two children, were killed and several others injured in Saturday’s Israeli attacks in Lebanon despite an ongoing truce, state news agency NNA and Health Ministry said.
In the latest strikes, an Israeli strike on the town of Saksakiyeh in southern Lebanon killed seven people, including a child, and injured 15 others, among them three children.
Earlier, a man and his daughter were killed after an airstrike targetted them in Nabatieh, southern Lebanon.
Three others were killed when an Israeli strike hit a vehicle on the road between the towns of Abbasiyah and Burj Rahal in Tyre district.
Three Israeli strikes hit the Chouf district of central Lebanon, killing six people.
Another Israeli drone struck the Al-Masarib neighbourhood in the town of Meifdoun, with initial reports indicating one person was killed.
Separately, Israel launched artillery shelling and demolished homes in several towns, coinciding with clashes between its forces and members of the Lebanese group Hezbollah in the town of Al-Bayada.
Artillery shelling also targeted the towns of Braachit, Safad al-Battikh, and Touline, extending to Ghazieh and Froun.
The Israeli army also fired illumination flares over villages in the western and central sectors of southern Lebanon.
In Bint Jbeil district, Israeli forces demolished homes in the Al-Jabana neighborhood, and also fired artillery shells in the outskirts of the town of Ghazieh at dawn.
Another person was killed in an airstrike on the town of Haris in Bint Jbeil.
The strikes also killed one person and injured several others in the town of Bedyas in the Tyre district.
Hezbollah said it targetted two separate groups of Israeli soldiers and military vehicles in southern Lebanon’s Rshaf.
The group also claimed to have intercepted an Israeli drone over al-Abbasiyah using a surface-to-air missile.
Despite the ceasefire in place since April 17, which was later extended till mid-May, the Israeli army continues daily strikes in Lebanon and exchange of fire with Hezbollah.
Israel’s attacks on Lebanon since March 2, soon after the Iran war, have killed over 2 700 people, and displaced more than one million. It also maintains a so-called “buffer zone” on Lebanese territory. The US is again hosting peace talks between the two countries on May 14-15 in Washington, this despite its silence over Israel’s ongoing violation of the ceasefire and its constant killing of civilians. – AA