Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike in the south of the country claimed the lives of seven people, including a little girl, yesterday, Friday.
In a statement, the ministry said that “the Israeli enemy’s raid against the town of Saqqayyeh, in the Sidon region, initially claimed seven martyrs, including a little girl, and 15 wounded, including three children.”
Lebanese authorities had earlier today announced the death of a Syrian national who was targeted by an Israeli drone along with his 12-year-old daughter, as part of new strikes carried out by Israel after it had previously called for the evacuation of nine settlements in southern Lebanon.
Early this afternoon, the official Lebanese news agency ANI also reported three Israeli strikes south of Beirut, some 20 kilometers from the capital.
A French news agency correspondent saw two vehicles hit and rescuers operating along the highway linking the capital to the southern regions of the country.
Despite the ceasefire, which Israel and the pro-Iranian Lebanese group Hezbollah have accused each other of violating, Israeli warplanes “struck the town of Zarigeh following an early morning warning,” ANI reported, and bombed other zones mentioned in the evacuation order.
The agency said there were casualties in a strike targeting a vehicle between the two locations, without further details.
The health ministry denounced a “barbaric” act and “deliberate violence against civilians and children”, following Israeli drone attacks on a motorcycle in Nabatiye, outside evacuation zones.
“The Syrian national and his 12-year-old daughter” who were targeted “managed to move away from the site of the first strike”, but “the drone attacked a second time” killing the father and then a third, targeting the little girl, who is undergoing surgery, the ministry explained.
