At least 20 civilians were killed and dozens more injured on Monday in a series of Israeli airstrikes targeting multiple areas in southern Lebanon, according to Lebanese official sources.
Lebanon’s National News Agency reported that two people were killed and five others wounded in an initial strike targeted the town of Mashghara in the Western Bekaa Valley.
In a separate incident, an Israeli drone targeted a car in the Kfar Rumman roundabout, killing four people inside the car and setting it on fire.
Another drone strike targeted near Ghandour Hospital in Nabatieh al-Fawqa, killing one person and injuring a second. Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes carried out pre-dawn raids, destroying a residential building near the old Al-Sabah Secondary School in Nabatieh, as well as a house in the town of Harouf.
Three more people were killed, and others were wounded, and several homes were destroyed in an airstrike on a house in the town of Burj Rahal.
A man and his wife were also killed when Israeli forces bombed their vehicle in Toul, near the Fakhr al-Din wells in the Nabatieh district. Their children sustained varying injuries.
This morning, warplanes and drones were observed flying over villages near Tyre. Earlier that morning, Israeli aircraft had also bombed Arzoun and Ghandouriyeh.
The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health, in a report from its Health Emergency Operations Center, stated that Israeli forces bombed the Jnah area south of Beirut, resulting in the killing of five people, including children, and wounding 52 others, including eight children.
The Ministry of Public Health’s Emergency Health Operations Center issued a statement announcing the killing of three citizens, including two women, in a bombing of the Ain Saadeh hills area, and that three women were injured.
The escalation comes amid intensified Israeli military activity in Lebanon since March 2, with increased airstrikes targeting towns and villages across the country, coinciding with broader regional tensions involving Iran.
