By Mohammed Ragawi
ISTANBUL (AA) – At least five people were killed and several others injured on Friday in Israeli airstrikes in different areas of southern Lebanon.
Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported that an Israeli airstrike targeted the town of Jwaya in the Tyre district of southern Lebanon, killing three people and injuring several others.
Debris removal operations are still ongoing, it added.
Two more people were killed in the town of Zrariyeh in the Zahrani area of the Nabatieh district in southern Lebanon, after an Israeli airstrike on the entrance to Wadi Khalil, the news agency reported.
Several airstrikes hit the town throughout Friday, it said, without providing additional information.
Israeli warplanes also carried out additional airstrikes on Marwanieh in the Zahrani area, according to the agency, which did not provide details about the casualties or damages to infrastructure.
Israel dramatically escalated its massive bombing campaign across Lebanon against what it claims are Hezbollah targets since Sept. 23, killing at least 1,437 people, injuring over 4,123 others, and displacing more than 1.34 million people.
The aerial campaign is an escalation from a year of cross-border warfare between Israel and Hezbollah since the start of its offensive on the Gaza Strip, in which Israel has killed 42,500 people, most of them women and children, since a Hamas attack last year.
Despite international warnings that the Mideast was on the brink of a regional war amid Israel’s relentless attacks on Gaza and Lebanon, it expanded the conflict on Oct. 1 by launching an incursion into southern Lebanon.