ISTANBUL

At least 34 people were killed and dozens others injured in Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon since dawn Wednesday, as regional escalation continued to flare up, Lebanese media reported.

An Israeli warplane struck a building in the town of Tamnine el-Tahta in Baalbek, eastern Lebanon, inhabited by a Syrian family, killing 10 people and injuring five others, the state news agency NNA reported.

One person was also killed after an Israeli drone strike targeted Mahmoud Faqih Street in Nabatieh in southern Lebanon.

Three more people were killed in an Israeli drone strike on a car in the Saf al-Hawa area of Bint Jbeil in Nabatieh, according to the agency.

NNA said three people, including a paramedic, were killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Hanouiyeh in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon.

One person was killed and two others were injured in a strike on Zellaya in the Western Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon, while another was killed and eight others wounded in Israeli bombardment of Al-Housh in the Tyre district.

In the town of Qana in the same district, successive Israeli airstrikes killed five people and injured five others, NNA said.

Three young men were killed in Sharqiya when a strike targeted a house where they were staying, while another paramedic died in Kfartabnit after an airstrike hit the town, the agency said.

Six people were killed and seven others wounded in an Israeli strike on Chehabiyeh in Tyre, according to Al-Manar TV, affiliated with Hezbollah.

Israeli aircraft also struck a residential apartment in the Aicha Bakkar area of the capital Beirut, though the number of casualties from that attack was not immediately clear, NNA said.

Lebanon’s Health Ministry also said four people were injured in an Israeli strike in the town of Tebnine in southern Lebanon.

Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 570 people and displaced thousands across Lebanon since March 2 amid cross-border attacks with Hezbollah.

The escalation intensified after Israel and the US launched a joint attack on Iran, killing more than 1,200 people, including then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and injured over 10,000 others.

Iran retaliated with drone and missile strikes targeting Israel, Jordan, Iraq and Gulf countries hosting US military assets.