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.

According to the agency, 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 injured in a strike on Zellaya in the Western Bekaa region of eastern Lebanon, while another person 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.

Meanwhile, Lebanon’s Health Ministry said four people were injured in an Israeli strike on the town of Tebnine in the Bint Jbeil district of 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 late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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

*Writing by Rania Abushamala and Lina Altawell in Istanbul