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Lebanon’s health ministry said Israeli strikes on three villages outside traditional Hezbollah strongholds had killed at least 15 people Saturday, as state media reported further strikes elsewhere.
An “Israeli enemy strike on Maaysra”, a Shiite Muslim majority village in a mostly Christian mountain area north of Beirut, left “nine dead and 15 wounded”, the ministry said in a statement, updating an earlier toll.
An AFP correspondent in Maaysra saw excavators trying to remove chunks of a destroyed building. Emergency workers, one using a manual sledgehammer, tried to break through a huge slab of concrete.
Separately, the ministry said four people had been killed and 18 others wounded in an “Israeli enemy strike” on Barja in the Shouf district south of the capital.
And the ministry reported two dead, four wounded and “body parts” in a Israeli strike on Deir Billa, some 15 kilometers (nine miles) from the town of Batroun on Lebanon’s north coast.
DNA tests were being carried out to determine the identity of the remains, the statement added.
The official National News Agency (NNA) had said an “Israeli strike” targeted a house in Deir Billa where families from south Lebanon had taken refuge.
