Israeli drone strike kills 1, injures 10 in southern Lebanon

By Wassim Saifuldine

BEIRUT (AA) – At least one person was killed and ten others injured on Monday in an Israeli drone strike in southern Lebanon, according to a medical source and local media.

The attack targeted the gate of Salah Ghandour Hospital in the Saf al-Hawa area in the border town of Bint Jbeil, the state-run National News Agency (NNA) reported.

The strike caused significant damage to several departments at the hospital, the broadcaster said.

A medical source told Anadolu that one person was killed and 10 others injured, including four critically.

Lebanese media also reported Israeli airstrikes and artillery shelling in the towns of Yaroun and Wadi Hamoul in southern Lebanon.

No information was yet available about injuries or damage.

Tension has flared along the border between Lebanon and Israel amid intermittent exchanges of fire between Israeli forces and Hezbollah, in the deadliest clashes since the two sides fought a full-scale war in 2006.

The border tension comes amid an Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip that has killed nearly 36,000 people since a cross-border attack by the Palestinian group Hamas on Oct. 7 last year.

*Writing by Mohammad Sio