First responders search for survivors amongst the rubble at the site of an Israeli airstrike that targeted the southern Lebanese village of Ain Baal on May 1, 2026. AFP
The strikes in Habboush killed eight people, including a child and two women, and wounded 21 others, the ministry said, raising an earlier toll.
Other strikes in Zrariyeh killed four people, two of them women, and wounded four more, it said.
A strike in Ain Baal near the coastal city of Tyre killed one person and wounded seven others.
In Habboush, where the Israeli forced evacuation order was issued, an AFP photographer saw clouds of smoke rising after the raids.
The state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported that Israeli warplanes "launched a series of heavy strikes... less than an hour after" the threat.
Israeli strikes and artillery fired on other south Lebanon locations, including Tyre.
Israel has kept up deadly strikes on Lebanon despite the April 17 ceasefire that sought to halt more than six weeks of war.
The Israeli occupation troops carried out detonations in the southern town of Shamaa, and "demolished a monastery and a school" run by a religious order in the town of Yaroun after other detonations of "homes, shops and roads" there.
Hezbollah said that it carried out a series of retaliatory attacks on Israeli troops and sites they occupy in southern Lebanon on Friday, in response to Israel's ongoing ceasefire violations.
The toll from Israeli strikes since March 2 has risen to more than 2,600 people killed in Lebanon, including 103 emergency workers and paramedics.
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies' under-secretary general for national society development and coordination, Xavier Castellanos, said that when Lebanese Red Cross volunteers go on a mission, "they fear for their lives".
Two Lebanese Red Cross paramedics are among those killed in Israeli strikes.
"That a person who is trying to save lives, is trying to alleviate human suffering, might be targeted, might be killed... this is something that I found absolutely unacceptable," Castellanos told reporters near Beirut.
The ceasefire, which began on April 17 and was later extended, was intended to halt more than six weeks of an escalation in the Israeli war on Lebanon, which started in October 2023 with the outbreak of Tel Aviv's genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online
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