Smoke rises from the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted an area in Beirut's southern suburbs. AFP
Four people have been killed and four others injured by an Israeli airstrike on a house in the Lebanese town of Selaa, according to the country’s National News Agency (NNA).
The injured people were transferred to hospitals in Tyre, a city in southern Lebanon, where Israel has intensified its attacks.
The Lebanese border town of Naqoura and the outskirts of the border village Alma al-Shaab were hit by artillery shelling by Israeli forces at dawn, the NNA reported.
Another Israeli strike on Bshamoun, south of Beirut, killed two other Lebanese, Lebanon's health ministry said, while strikes on the capital's southern suburbs continued throughout the night."
The Israeli enemy raid on the town of Bshamoun in the Aley district resulted, in a preliminary toll, in the martyrdom of two citizens and the injury of five others," the ministry said in a statement.
Located in the mountainous, Druze-majority Aley district southeast of Beirut, Bshamoun lies outside of Hezbollah's traditional strongholds.
Israel has launched strikes across Lebanon, killing at least 1,039 people, injuring more than 2,876 others, and forcing over a million people from their homes, while sending ground troops into the country's south, in what the international community fears could lead to an occupation in the south of the country.
Before the start of the US-Israeli war on Iran, the Israeli occupation army had violated the terms of the November 2024 ceasefire agreement on hundreds of occasions, with strikes that killed nearly 500 people, while maintaining the occupation of at least five areas in the south.
Since the start of the intensified Israeli bombing of Lebanon on 2 March, following the broader US‑Israel war on Iran that began on 28 February, Israeli strikes have devastated towns and villages across the country and heavily damaged civilian infrastructure, including bridges, roads, hospitals, and schools, particularly in Beirut’s southern suburbs and in southern and eastern Lebanon.
Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that Israel's overnight attacks on Beirut's southern suburbs had targeted seven areas.
"Enemy warplanes launched seven raids overnight on the southern suburbs, targeting the areas of: Bir al-Abed, Al-Ruwais -- outskirts of Al-Manshiyya, Haret Hreik, Sayyed Hadi Nasrallah Highway, Saint Therese, Burj al-Barajneh and Al-Kafaat," NNA said on Tuesday.
Israel has also targeted key infrastructure in southern Lebanon, including the Qasmiyeh Bridge over the Litani River, a major crossing linking the south with central Lebanon, in what Lebanese President Joseph Aoun warned was a “prelude to ground invasion”.
Israeli strikes hit two more crossings on the Litani River on Monday, including a road running near the main bridge struck on Sunday and another smaller bridge on another section of the river.
Israel’s defence minister, Israel Katz, has been quoted by the AFP news agency as saying that the military will take control of south Lebanon all the way to the Litani river, which is about 30km (19 miles) from the Lebanon-Israel border.
He said hundreds of thousands of South Lebanon residents who were displaced by the war this month will not return south of the Litani River until what he described as the "security is guaranteed for the residents of the north” of Israel.
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