BEIRUT: At least 12 medical personnel were killed in an Israeli strike on a health care center in the town of Borj Qalaouiya in southern Lebanon, the Lebanese state news agency reported on Saturday, citing the health ministry.
The health ministry said the death toll was preliminary, with rescue operations underway to search for missing persons.
The strike comes amid escalating Israeli military activity in Lebanon. Earlier on Friday, Israeli warplanes dropping propaganda leaflets over Beirut caused a number of loud booms in the sky, terrifying residents of the capital.
AFP correspondents in Beirut heard four successive booms at short intervals, before clouds of paper leaflets appeared high in the air, as observed by AFP's photographer.
One of the leaflets that was dropped, addressed to the Lebanese people, said: "You must disarm Hezbollah, Iran's shield," and "Lebanon is your decision, not someone else's."
