Residents of Tyre pore over the site of Israeli airstrike on the southern port city on Tuesday. Photo by Stringer/EPA
May 27 (UPI) -- At least 31 people were killed, including several children, and 40 were injured in Lebanon after more than 100 Israeli air strikes targeting what the Israeli military said was Hezbollah infrastructure and combatants in the south and east of the country.
Lebanon's health ministry said two children and three women were among 14 people killed in Burj al-Shamali, just outside the southern city of Tyre, amid the bombardment on Tuesday and overnight into Wednesday -- some of the most intense since an April 16 truce between Israel and the Iran-backed militia.
At least six people were killed and six injured in nearby Maarakeh and another 11 people were killed in strikes on three other communities across the south, according to the health ministry.
Hezbollah claimed it hit Israeli forces and tanks with drones, rockets and artillery as they closed in on the southern Lebanese town of Zawtar al-Sharqiya.
