ISTANBUL

Five people have been killed and others injured since early Friday in a new wave of Israeli airstrikes across Lebanon.

An Israeli strike hit a residential apartment in Bar Elias, central Bekaa Valley, eastern Lebanon, killing the two sons of Youssef Dahouk, an official from the Jamaa Islamiya group, Lebanon's National News Agency (NNA) reported. The strike wounded three others.

One person was killed after another Israeli strike targeted a car in the Jnah area in the southern suburbs of Beirut.

In southern Lebanon, a woman was killed and her husband wounded when an Israeli airstrike struck their home in the town of Aabba.

An Israeli drone also targeted a car on Shaaitiyeh Road, killing one person.

In the Tyre District, Israeli warplanes struck the area between Siddiqine and Ramadiyeh, and at dawn carried out another strike on Tayr Falsayh near the bridge. Earlier overnight, the town of Qleileh was targeted by Israeli aircraft, resulting in injuries.

Alongside the airstrikes, Israeli artillery shelled the outskirts of Al-Qawzah and Ramieh in southern Lebanon.

On March 2, Lebanese group Hezbollah began attacking Israeli military sites in response to repeated Israeli attacks on Lebanon and the killing of Iran’s then-Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in a US-Israeli strike. Israel retaliated with a military campaign in Lebanon, carrying out airstrikes on Beirut’s southern suburbs and areas in the south and east, and on March 3 began a limited ground incursion in southern Lebanon.

According to Lebanon's Health Ministry, Israeli attacks have killed at least 687 people, injured 1,774, and displaced around 822,000.

*Writing by Serdar Dincel