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A man inspects the damage to a building after an Israeli strike in the southern town of Kfour, Nabatieh district, Lebanon, August 17, 2024. /CFP
At least 10 people were killed, including two children, and five others were wounded by an Israeli strike on a residential building in Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, state news agency NNA said on Saturday.
The victims were all Syrian citizens, NNA said, adding that a final toll would be announced after finalizing DNA tests to determine the identity of the victims.
Official and military sources, who spoke anonymously, told Xinhua News Agency that an Israeli warplane carried out a raid early Saturday, firing two air-to-ground missiles on the residential building in the middle of an industrial zone in Wadi al-Kfour, Nabatieh district.
Several teams from the Civil Defense and the Islamic Health Authority, equipped with bulldozers and cranes, are still working to remove the rubble of the house, which was completely destroyed, and move the injured to hospitals.
Military sources indicated that Israeli drones and warplanes launched four raids on four villages and towns in southern Lebanon since the wee hours of Saturday.
Meanwhile, Israeli artillery shelled eight villages and towns in the eastern, western and central sectors of the border area in southern Lebanon with 35 shells, causing material damage to a number of homes, sources said.
Smoke rises from a fire caused by an Israeli strike on the outskirts of Khiam, Lebanon, August 16, 2024. /CFP
The strike came after ceasefire talks between Hamas and Israel in Doha paused on Friday with negotiators due to meet again next week.
Tensions along the Lebanon-Israel border have been high amid a daily exchange of fire between the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah and Israeli army since October 8 last year.
The situation escalated after Israel attacked Beirut's southern suburbs last month, killing a Hezbollah senior military commander, Fouad Shokor, and seven civilians. Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah threatened a definite and painful response to the Israeli raid at the appropriate time and place.
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(With input from Reuters and Xinhua)