Israeli air strikes in southern Lebanon killed at least 13 people yesterday, Lebanese security sources said, as Israel pressed its campaign against Hizbollah and the group claimed fresh attacks against Israeli forces in the south.
The dead included nine people killed in the village of Dayr Debba, 8km east of the city of Tyre, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Reuters footage showed vehicles ablaze in the southern city of Sidon after an Israeli air strike.
More than three months since the US-Israeli attack on Iran ignited conflict around the Middle East, Lebanon remains a major frontline in the war. The Lebanon war sparked escalation in the wider conflict earlier this week, when Israel struck Beirut’s Hizbollah-controlled southern suburbs, prompting Iran to retaliate with a missile attack on Israel, which in turn struck Iran, before Israel and Iran halted attacks.
Almost 3,700 people have been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2, 730 of them women, children or medics, according to Lebanon’s health ministry, while authorities say some 1.2 million people have been displaced in Lebanon.
Since then, 28 Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat in Lebanon, according to a Reuters tally of Israeli military announcements, while four civilians have been killed in Hizbollah attacks.
A Lebanese soldier died yesterday from wounds caused by an Israeli air strike in the south on March 17, the Lebanese military said.
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