BEIRUT, March 30 (Xinhua) -- Israeli airstrikes targeted several areas in southern Lebanon and Beirut's southern suburbs on Monday, killing seven people, including a Lebanese soldier, with several others wounded, official sources said.
The Lebanese Army said in a statement that an Israeli strike hit an army checkpoint in the Ameriyeh area, killing one soldier and wounding others.
In another Israeli airstrike in the Bint Jbeil district, one person was killed and another wounded, Lebanon's official National News Agency said.
An airstrike on the town of Shaqra killed five people and injured two others, according to Lebanon's Public Health Emergency Operations Center at the Ministry of Public Health.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah said in statements that its fighters targeted the Mishmar HaCarmel missile defense site south of Haifa with a salvo of rockets. The group also said it fired rockets at Israeli troop gatherings in the Avivim settlement, as well as Israeli soldiers and vehicles in the Khanouq area and the border village of Adaisseh twice, in addition to the Kiryat Shmona settlement and the al-Malkiya site.
Cross-border fighting has continued along the Lebanon-Israel border since March 2, when Hezbollah launched rockets toward Israel for the first time since a ceasefire took effect on Nov. 27, 2024, triggering intensified Israeli airstrikes across southern and eastern Lebanon. ■
