War

At least 11 people were killed and more than 25 injured in Israeli airstrikes targeting eastern and southern Lebanon on Thursday, according to Lebanese media reports.The official National News Agency (NNA) reported that four people were killed in an Israeli strike on the town of Abbassiyeh in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, while two others were killed in a separate strike on Deir Qanoun al-Nahr.In the Nabatieh district, an Israeli drone strike on a motorcycle along the Habboush highway killed its driver, the agency said.
A separate NNA report said one person was killed and seven wounded in strikes targeting Abbassiyeh.In the city of Tyre, Israeli warplanes struck a residential building near Hiram Hospital, killing one person and injuring 17 others, including 10 nurses and hospital employees. The blast shattered windows and doors, and damaged parts of the hospital, including ceilings in patient rooms and emergency wards, the agency added.Hiram Hospital chairman Salman Eidibi said the strikes caused “extensive material damage” to the intensive care, cardiac, dialysis, emergency, and laboratory departments, in addition to dozens of vehicles belonging to doctors and staff that were parked at the facility.In eastern Lebanon, one person was killed in two Israeli airstrikes on the outskirts of the town of Nahle in the Baalbek region.
Another person was killed and a Syrian national was wounded in separate drone strikes carried out in two waves near the town of Sohmor and in the Mashghara plain in western Bekaa, according to NNA.Israel has launched a deadly offensive against Lebanon since March 2, killing at least 3,711 people, injuring 1,483, and displacing more than 1 million, according to official figures.Despite a ceasefire that began on April 17 and was extended until early July, Israel has continued its offensive through daily deadly shelling and the widespread demolition of homes in dozens of villages in southern Lebanon.