Israel’s military claims it hit a Hezbollah weapons warehouse but Lebanese Health Ministry says residence attacked.
The death toll from the strike in the Nabatieh area included “a woman and her two children” and left five other people wounded, two critically, the ministry said in a statement on Saturday, adding that a residential building was hit.
An Israeli air strike in southern Lebanon has killed at least 10 people, Lebanon’s Ministry of Health has said, as the Israeli military reported hitting a Hezbollah weapons storage facility.
Israel’s military claimed on its Telegram channel that the air force had struck a weapons warehouse of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah overnight “in the area of Nabatieh”, located about 12km (seven miles) from the nearest point to the Israeli border.
Mohammad Shoaib, who runs a slaughterhouse in Wadi al-Kfour, said the area struck was an “industrial and civilian area”, that had factories producing bricks, metal, and aluminum, as well as a dairy farm.
There was no immediate comment from Hezbollah.
Earlier, the military posted on social media that its fighter jets attacked “military buildings” in the villages of Maroun al-Ras and Aita al-Shaab, more than 50km (31 miles) south of Nabatieh city.
Lebanon’s National News Agency said a brick mill at the outskirts of the northern town of Wadi al-Kfour was hit, and among the dead were the caretaker of mill, a Syrian national, and his entire family.
The strike is among the deadliest in Lebanon since Hezbollah started trading near-daily fire with Israeli forces in support of its ally Hamas and in solidarity with the Palestinian people since the October 7 attack on southern Israel and Israel’s subsequent war on Gaza.
According to the Armed Conflict Location and Event Data Project, Israel, Hezbollah and other armed groups in Lebanon exchanged at least 8,533 attacks across the border from October 7 to July 31.
