The Lebanese Health Ministry said on Tuesday that nine people were killed and others injured in Israeli airstrikes on several areas in Lebanon, along with a ground incursion into Halta town in the Arqoub region in the south.
The Lebanese National News Agency quoted the ministry’s Emergency Operations Center as saying that four people were killed and four others injured in an Israeli raid targeting a house in Selaa town in the Tyre district.
Israeli warplanes also carried out three airstrikes at dawn on Tayr Debba town in the Tyre district, killing two people and injuring five others.
Israeli aircraft targeted several fuel stations, including along the Rashidiya road, in Burghaliya, and on the Nabatieh–Shoukin road, and struck again at dawn the Dalafa Bridge linking Hasbaya and the western Bekaa to Jezzine, destroying it.
The ministry added that another Israeli airstrike on Bshamoun in the Aley district resulted, in a preliminary toll, in two deaths and five injuries.
In Nabatieh, Israeli aircraft carried out a strike at around 2 a.m. on a house on the road to al-Fajr Stadium in Zefta town, destroying it completely, with two people reported injured.
Several areas, including Sarbin, Haris, Rshaf and Deir Antar in Bint Jbeil district, and Touline in Marjayoun district, were subjected to a series of scattered airstrikes. Naqoura town and the outskirts of Alma al-Shaab also came under Israeli artillery shelling.
Israeli forces fired illumination flares from positions in Jabal al-Radar toward the skies over Jabal al-Sheikh and the Shaab al-Qalb neighborhood in Shebaa town.
In a related development, an Israeli infantry unit entered Halta town shortly after midnight, raided a house and opened fire on its occupants, killing at least one person, injuring several others, and abducting four civilians.
Lebanon had been subjected on Monday to intensified Israeli airstrikes across several areas, which killed and injured a number of people. Israeli aircraft also destroyed the Qaqaiya Bridge over the Litani River in southern Lebanon, one of five main bridges linking its banks, three of which have now been destroyed.
