BEIRUT, March 16 (Xinhua) -- At least seven people, including two children and two paramedics, were killed on Monday in a series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon, Lebanese officials said.
In the village of Qantara in the Marjayoun district, an airstrike killed four civilians, including two children, the Emergency Operations Center of Lebanon's Public Health Ministry said in a statement. In Kfar Sir, Nabatieh district, a strike on a house killed one person. When an ambulance from the Islamic Health Authority responded, a second strike hit the same location, killing two paramedics and wounding another, the National News Agency reported.
Hezbollah said it launched a rocket salvo targeting an Israeli troop gathering near the settlement of Kfar Yuval. The group also accused Israel of deliberately striking civilian and medical facilities across southern Lebanon. Party media official Salman Har said Israeli attacks hit civil defense facilities and emergency vehicles in Tyre and the villages of Tayr Debba and Qalaouiyeh.
Hezbollah first fired rockets from Lebanon toward Israel on March 2, marking the first such attack since a ceasefire was declared on Nov. 27, 2024. Israel responded with an intensive military campaign targeting Hezbollah positions in southern and eastern Lebanon, as well as in the southern suburbs of Beirut.
Earlier on Monday, the IDF said it had launched "targeted" ground operations in southern Lebanon, which Hezbollah said it was fighting fiercely. ■
