The director of the Lebanese Italian Hospital told the state-run National News Agency (NNA) that it would "remain open to provide the necessary medical care" despite the damage.
Strikes destroyed two buildings nearby, an AFP correspondent saw, shattering windows and causing suspended ceilings to collapse in the hospital, the facility's management said.
A series of attacks hit the Tyre region on Saturday, including one on its port that struck a small boat and damaged others moored nearby, the AFP correspondent said.
Tens of thousands of people have left Tyre, but around 20,000 remain, including 15,000 displaced from surrounding villages, despite Israeli evacuation warnings covering most of the city and a broad swathe of southern Lebanon.
The NNA also reported that Israeli forces abducted a man in Shebaa, near the Israeli border in the east, at around 3:00 am on Saturday.
The Israeli occupation army said Saturday it had destroyed a bridge in eastern Lebanon.
An AFP journalist heard two loud explosions in the capital, Beirut, within half an hour early Saturday and saw smoke billowing from one of them.
Local media reported two strikes on Beirut's southern suburbs, a locality that has been a target of Israeli strikes in recent days as the army presses on with its ground invasion in the country's south.
Israel's army threatened to target two adjacent bridges over the Litani River in the area.
The Lebanese state-run National News Agency (NNA) said: "Israeli warplanes targeted the bridge that links Sohmor with Mashghara, leading to its destruction."
Lebanese local media reported that a second bridge was also hit.
The strikes in Sohmor continued into early Saturday, with the NNA reporting the town's centre being hit twice as warplanes roared in the skies.
Israel has previously struck five other bridges over the Litani in the country's south, including most of the main routes crossing the waterway.
The river runs around 30 kilometres (20 miles) north of the Israeli border, an area where Israel has said it wants to maintain "security control".
Also in Sohmor, two people were killed and 15 wounded in an Israeli strike that hit "as worshippers were leaving the town's mosque" after Friday prayers, according to Lebanon's health ministry.
Israel has killed more than 1,300 Lebanese in a month of attacks.
'No longer afraid'
On the edge of the southern suburbs of Beirut, Christians marked Good Friday in Shiyah with a procession around Saint Maroun Church.
Resident Hala Farah, 62, said she had never before missed the religious rites, even during repeated Israeli war on the country.
"We're always here, we have to hold on for the future of our children," she told AFP at the entrance to the overflowing church.
Another worshipper, Patricia Haddad, 32, said she was no longer afraid of the bombardments.
"We got used to it, unfortunately," she said.
On Friday, the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) said a blast at one of its positions in the country's south near the border wounded three peacekeepers, the third similar incident in days.
UNIFIL spokesperson Kandice Ardiel said an explosion inside a UN position injured three peacekeepers, adding that the origin was unknown.
However, a UN security source cited in recent reporting said Israeli fire was responsible for a similar projectile attack days earlier that killed one peacekeeper, while subsequent incidents included a deadly explosion that struck a UNIFIL convoy, killing two more Indonesian troops.
Israel has repeatedly targeted or struck areas around UNIFIL positions in past incidents and has long sought to end the mission’s presence in Lebanon.
In October 2024 alone, the mission reported around 20 attacks which were attributed to Israeli fire, with seven described by UN officials as "deliberate."
A confidential report obtained by the Financial Times revealed that Israeli forces have launched at least a dozen documented targeted attacks on UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon, including the use of white phosphorus near UN bases, injuring 15 soldiers, and significantly damaging the UN infrastructure.
Early in February, the UN said the Israeli occupation army dropped chemical materials near the Blue Line in southern Lebanon, temporarily halting the peacekeeping operations in the area.
On 7 March, three Ghanaian soldiers were wounded by Israeli tank fire in a border town in southern Lebanon.
Since the November 2024 ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon, UNIFIL has recorded more than 10,000 air and ground violations by the Israeli army.
According to the UN, 97 force members have been killed in violence since UNIFIL was first established to monitor the withdrawal of Israeli forces after they invaded Lebanon in 1978.
The force's mandate expires at the end of this year.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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