11 killed in Israeli strikes across southern Lebanon

ISTANBUL

At least 11 people were killed and several others wounded in a series of Israeli airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Saturday, the country’s state news agency reported.

The National News Agency (NNA) said two people were killed and five others injured in a strike targeting a house along the road between the towns of Habboush and Kfour in the Nabatieh region.

In another incident, an Israeli drone strike hit a motorcycle on the Qadmous road north of Tyre, killing two people, the news agency said.

Five more people, including two women, were killed in an airstrike at a junction in the town of Maarakeh in the Tyre district, it added.

In the village of Ain Baal, also in the Tyre district, two people were killed, and another was injured when a home was struck.

Separately, a strike on the town of Qana in southern Lebanon wounded two people, one of them critically, according to the report.

Lebanese authorities said the broader Israeli campaign since March 2 has killed at least 1,368 people and wounded more than 4,100, with over one million displaced.

Israel has carried out airstrikes and a ground offensive in southern Lebanon since a cross-border attack by the Lebanese group Hezbollah on March 2, despite a ceasefire that took effect in November 2024.

Hezbollah has fired barrages of rockets into Israel since early March, saying the attacks are in response to continued Israeli strikes on Lebanon, as well as the killing of Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a joint US-Israeli airstrike on Feb. 28.