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Israel’s military did not immediately comment on the casualties
or specific incidents, but said that between Monday afternoon
and Tuesday afternoon, it had targeted more than 25 sites of
Hezbollah infrastructure in southern Lebanon.
The Israel-Hezbollah latest fighting began on March 2 with the
Lebanese militant Hezbollah group firing rockets at Israel, two
days after the United States and Israel attacked Iran.
In Beirut, the government said a single strike on the village of
Deir Qanoun al Nahr in the coastal Tyre province killed 10
people, including three children and three women. Three were
wounded, including a child.
The ministry provided no further details about the strike but
state-run National News Agency said it destroyed a house,
leaving several people under the rubble. Their bodies were
pulled out later in the day.
According to the ministry, another airstrike — this one on the
southern city of Nabatieh — killed four people and wounded 10
others, including two women. A third strike in the nearby
village of Kfar Sir killed five people, including one woman.
The latest deaths came a day after the death toll in the latest
round of fighting between Israel and Hezbollah surpassed 3,000,
and two days after the U.S.-brokered truce that has been in
place since April 17, was extended for 45 days.
Israel has since invaded southern Lebanon and bombarded its
capital, Beirut, and other areas, saying it is targeting
Hezbollah infrastructure. Hezbollah, both a militant group and a
powerful political organization in Lebanon, has resisted
pressure to disarm, including by the Lebanese government.
More than a million people have been displaced in Lebanon by the
fighting, with some sheltering in tents along roads and the
Mediterranean Sea in Beirut.
Israel, meanwhile, has struggled to halt frequent Hezbollah
drone attacks targeting its troops on Lebanese soil and northern
Israeli border towns.
Israel's military said one of its soldiers was killed on Tuesday
in battle in southern Lebanon, raising the Israeli troops' death
toll to 21 since the latest conflict started.
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