At least 31 people were killed and dozens wounded Thursday as Israeli airstrikes struck several areas across Lebanon, including an attack on a town in the country’s south that left children among the dead, Lebanese media reported.
The Health Ministry said nine people, including five children, were killed and seven others injured in an initial toll from an Israeli strike targeting the town of Arki in Sidon district in southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency, citing another ministry statement, said three people were killed and a child was injured in a dawn strike in the village of Aramoun in Beirut’s southern suburbs.
Eight more people lost their lives and 31 others were injured in an Israeli strike in Ramleh Al-Bayda neighborhood in Beirut, the ministry said.
Three people were also killed and others injured when an Israeli strike targeted the town of Barish in the Tyre District, the news agency said.
