BEIRUT, March 4 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and six others wounded in Israeli airstrikes targeting two vehicles on Beirut's airport road on Wednesday night, Lebanon's Ministry of Public Health said.
"The Israeli enemy's two airstrikes on the airport road led to the martyrdom of three people and the injury of six others," the ministry's Public Health Emergency Operations Center said in a statement.
The two vehicles were struck in Israeli raids on the airport road in Beirut earlier in the evening, the National News Agency (NNA) reported.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it struck several Hezbollah targets across Lebanon on Wednesday, including rocket and missile launch sites as well as a drone manufacturing plant.
The development comes as Israel has intensified airstrikes on Beirut's southern suburbs in recent days.
Hezbollah on Monday fired missiles and drones toward Israel, saying the attacks were in retaliation for the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a U.S.-Israeli strike and for repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Israel responded with massive airstrikes on Hezbollah targets and deployed ground forces into southern Lebanon. ■
