Lebanese Health Ministry: Citizen Killed in Israeli Airstrike

Smoke billows from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in the southern Lebanese village of al-Taybeh on September 19, 2024. - Lebanon's Hezbollah has traded near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of ally Hamas since the Palestinian militant group's October 7 attack triggered war in the Gaza Strip, with repeated escalations during more than 11 months of the cross-border violence. (Photo by AMMAR AMMAR / AFP)

The Lebanese Ministry of Health announced that a citizen was killed in an Israeli drone strike targeting an orchard between the towns of Batouliyeh and Ain Baal in southern Lebanon.

The Lebanese Al-Manar TV website reported that the wooded area of Yaroun in the Bint Jbeil district was subjected to intermittent enemy artillery shelling.