At least 10 people were killed in Lebanon on Wednesday, officials said, as the Israeli military launched “extensive strikes” on Hezbollah in the south and east of the country.
Three people were killed and 13 injured in the town of Ain Qana in southern Lebanon, Lebanon’s Ministry of Public Health said. At least three others were killed and nine injured after a strike on Al-Maaysra in Keserwan, and four more were killed and seven injured in Joun.
In a post around 11 a.m. local time, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it was “conducting extensive strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa area.” The IDF told CNN it had struck more than 100 targets in Lebanon on Wednesday so far.
Multiple Israeli airstrikes hit southern and eastern Lebanon on Wednesday morning, including towns and villages near Nabatiyeh in the south and in the Beqaa Valley in the east, according to the Lebanese state news agency NNA. The towns of Nabi Sheet, Tallet Jabal Al-Malah, and Al-Muaisira were subjected to a “wide-scale aerial assault,” NNA reported.
The IDF later posted an update that said around 40 projectiles had crossed from Lebanon into Israel on Wednesday morning.
Several were intercepted but one hit an assisted-living facility near the northern Israeli city of Safed, the IDF said. “No injuries were reported,” it added.
Israel and Hezbollah have traded waves of strikes since Israeli attacks targeting the militant group killed more than 500 people on Monday, the deadliest day in Lebanon in more than two decades.
