Five killed in Israeli attack on Lebanon’s Tyre
The Lebanese National News Agency (NNA) is reporting that Israeli jets raided the Raml neighbourhood in the city of Tyre, killing at least five people and wounding ten.
The building struck in the attack belonged to the Muslimani family, it reported. Rescue workers and paramedics are at the scene, trying to remove the rubble and find missing people, it said.
The raid caused extensive damage to a number of nearby buildings and apartments, it added.
Hezbollah claims attack on Israeli forces near border
The Lebanese group says its fighters targeted a gathering of Israeli soldiers near the Fatima Gate with artillery shells. The attack took place at 6:30am (03:30 GMT), the group said in a statement on Telegram.
The Fatima Gate is a border crossing between Lebanon and Israel that is not used any more.
People in Tyre ‘digging through rubble’ after Israeli attack
Rescue efforts are ongoing in Tyre. The emergency services are combing through the rubble, and pictures are emerging of the aftermath of that attack where five people were killed.
This is a huge crater. A crater of that size usually comes not from one but from multiple strikes involving a much larger type of bomb used by the Israelis. A definite air raid, more likely from an Israeli fighter jet rather than something like a drone or artillery shelling, which we have seen a lot of in southern Lebanon.
Israeli attack hits residential building near Sidon in Lebanon
Nine people have been killed and many others injured in an Israeli strike on the coastal city of Sidon in southern Lebanon.
Multiple air strikes have also hit Beirut’s southern suburb of Dahiyeh.
Hezbollah claims attack on northern Israel settlement
The Lebanese group says it targeted the Kiryat Shmona settlement with “a rocket salvo”. Hezbollah added on Telegram that it carried out the attack at 8:30am (05:30 GMT).
