Nine more injured in attack in southern Lebanon: report (representative)
Beirut:
Israeli airstrikes in southern Lebanon on Wednesday killed four civilians, including two children, and wounded nine others, Lebanese security sources said, after Israel said it “began a series of airstrikes in Lebanon.”
“A woman, her child and stepson were killed in an attack in Savane,” a security source told AFP, while a fourth civilian was killed in an attack on a building in Adesht. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak. Disclosed to the media.
Nine other people were wounded in the attack in southern Lebanon, the source added.
Israeli attacks have targeted several different locations in southern Lebanon, about 10 to 25 kilometers (6 to 15 miles) from the Israeli border.
Images of the alleged raid circulating on social media showed widespread destruction.
The Israeli military said on Wednesday its fighter jets “began a series of attacks on Lebanon,” raising fears of a war between the two countries after months of cross-border violence.
The attack came hours after unclaimed rockets fired from Lebanon wounded seven people in northern Israel, five of them in the town of Safed, medics said.
Lebanese Hezbollah has been fighting almost daily with Israeli forces since the Gaza war broke out more than four months ago.
Cross-border violence has killed at least 247 people on the Lebanese side, most of them Hezbollah fighters but also including 34 civilians, according to an AFP tally.
According to the Israeli military, nine soldiers and six civilians were killed on the Israeli side.
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