BEIRUT, March 5 (Xinhua) -- Eight people were killed and an unspecified number wounded on Thursday morning in multiple Israeli airstrikes in southern and eastern Lebanon, Lebanon's official media reported.
According to the state-run National News Agency (NNA), three people were killed when an Israeli drone struck a car at dawn near the municipality of Al-Qlailah in southern Lebanon. Two others were killed in another drone strike targeting a car on the Zahle road in eastern Lebanon.
The agency reported that three more people were killed and several others wounded when the area between the towns of Zawtar and Kfar Tebnit in southern Lebanon was hit by three airstrikes.
A security source from the Lebanese Army told Xinhua that Israeli warplanes and drones carried out 76 airstrikes in eastern and southern Lebanon as well as Beirut's southern suburbs in the early morning hours. The source added that 19 artillery strikes were also recorded on Lebanon's border towns.
Hezbollah on Monday fired missiles and drones toward Israel in retaliation for the killing of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a joint U.S.-Israeli strike and for repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon. Israel has responded with massive airstrikes on Hezbollah targets and deployed ground forces into southern Lebanon. ■
