Sidon, Lebanon, June 19 (EFE).- Nearly 50 people were killed and close to 100 wounded in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon on Friday, according to Lebanese health authorities, despite diplomatic efforts to preserve a ceasefire linked to the recent US-Iran agreement.
The Health Emergency Operations Center, which operates under the Ministry of Public Health, said the casualties resulted from what it described as «intense Israeli airstrikes» carried out from midnight through Friday afternoon in southern Lebanon and the eastern Bekaa Valley.
The southern towns of Harouf and Haboush suffered the highest reported death tolls, with nine and seven fatalities respectively. At least two children were reported killed in the towns of Doueir and Arab Salim.
In eastern Lebanon, the ministry said Israeli strikes, including one targeting the town of Tal Abyad in the Baalbek region, killed three people.
The identities of the victims were not immediately released.
