This photo shows a damaged building following Israeli airstrikes in Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Oct. 14, 2024. Thirteen people were killed and five others injured early Monday in Israeli airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources (Photo: Xinhua)
This photo shows a damaged building following Israeli airstrikes in Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Oct. 14, 2024. Thirteen people were killed and five others injured early Monday in Israeli airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources. (Photo: Xinhua)
This photo shows a damaged building following Israeli airstrikes in Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Oct. 14, 2024. Thirteen people were killed and five others injured early Monday in Israeli airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources (Photo: Xinhua)
This photo shows a damaged building following Israeli airstrikes in Maghdouche, Lebanon, on Oct. 14, 2024. Thirteen people were killed and five others injured early Monday in Israeli airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources (Photo: Xinhua)
Thirteen people were killed and five others injured early Monday in Israeli airstrikes on towns and villages in southern and eastern Lebanon, according to Lebanese military and medical sources.
Lebanese military sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes and drones carried out 11 airstrikes on eight towns and villages, and its heavy artillery fired on 12 towns and villages in southern Lebanon.
Two people were killed in the village of Ansar, four in the village of Kafr Kila, six in the town of Maaraboun, one dead and one wounded in the town of Seddiqine, and four wounded in the town of Sarbin. All of the casualties were civilians, the sources said.
Civil Defense and Lebanese Red Cross crews worked to transfer the bodies of the dead and wounded to hospitals in the cities of Tyre and Nabatieh, medical sources told Xinhua.
For its part, Hezbollah said in separate statements Monday morning that the Islamic Resistance fighters targeted with rockets the Israeli Zebdine barracks in the occupied Shebaa Farms, Israeli soldiers in the villages of Labbouneh and Markaba, and a gathering point at Khallet Wardeh in southern Lebanon.
Since Sept. 23, the Israeli army has been conducting an intensive air attack on Lebanon in an escalation with Hezbollah, which has been exchanging fire with the Israeli army across the Lebanese-Israeli border since Oct. 8, 2023.