Beirut, March 11 (SANA) At least 24 people were killed and several others injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting towns and villages across Lebanon since early Wednesday, according to Lebanese media and health authorities.
Lebanon’s National News Agency (NNA) quoted the Emergency Operations Center at the Ministry of Public Health as saying that Israeli warplanes struck the town of Shaabiyeh in the Tyre district, killing seven people and wounding 11 others.
Three more people were killed in an airstrike on the city of Bint Jbeil early Wednesday, while Israeli warplanes were reported flying at low altitude over the southern suburbs of Beirut, according to local reports.
Israeli aircraft also targeted a residential building in Tamnine al-Tahta in the Baalbek district, where a Syrian family lived. The strike killed 10 people and injured five others, NNA reported.
In separate attacks, three young men were killed in an airstrike shortly after midnight on a house in the town of al-Sharqiyah, while a paramedic from the Islamic Health Authority was killed in a similar strike on Kfar Tebnit.
Earlier Wednesday, airstrikes also hit the area near a public school in the town of Arabsalim in the Nabatieh district, as well as the town of Zawtar al-Sharqiyah.
Meanwhile, an Israeli drone targeted a BMW sport utility vehicle in the Saf al-Hawa area of Bint Jbeil, causing multiple injuries.
The Lebanese Ministry of Health said Tuesday that 12 people were killed and several others injured in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting towns in southern Lebanon.
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